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Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#41

Post by wstrange » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

I really like inbox, but the lack of a prominent delete button annoys me to no end.

Yes, I know I can bundle up mail and then delete the batch - but I want a one click way of deleting a message that I know I will never read again (promo emails for example)

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#42

Post by jedc » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

dimillian wrote: post #27

This is the best way to manage your mail ever. I get a good amount of mail everyday, I use Inbox since day 1, and this is just too good. I can quickly scan a tag/inbox, and if I doesn't see anything relevant, just click on done, goodbye. See something you wants to do later? Just pin it. It'll stay on top. Everyone should give it a try. The product is very well done, and if you care enough about your mail to try new t…

Completely agree. I wrote a blog post about it a while back [0], but to me the killer feature is being able to pin items as to-dos (or create new todo's unassociated with an email), and then flip the switch so that you ONLY see these pinned items.

I love it because I can only look at my pinned items and focus on knocking a few out at a time, and only occasionally flipping back to the regular inbox view. (Which I find distracting when I need to focus.)

[0] - http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2014/12/02/the-super-magic-p...

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#43

Post by dcustodio » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 3:59 PM UTC

Why do I have to download an app if I just want to use it in the browser?

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#44

Post by rikkus » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

wstrange wrote: post #41

I really like inbox, but the lack of a prominent delete button annoys me to no end. Yes, I know I can bundle up mail and then delete the batch - but I want a one click way of deleting a message that I know I will never read again (promo emails for example)

You could use the keyboard shortcut, #

I notice they haven't made these configurable yet - I was hard-wired to press d!

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#45

Post by buckbova » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:06 PM UTC

I like Inbox, but I need a trash can shortcut. I don't want to archive junk mail.

I guess it's only one extra click for the trash. Google apparently wants you to save everything.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#46

Post by riquito » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:07 PM UTC

Can you activate the web interface without having an android/iPhone smartphone? "Download Inbox on your phone to activate your account before using Inbox on the web."

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#47

Post by j2kun » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:07 PM UTC

Has anyone compared Inbox by Gmail with Mailbox by Dropbox? They seem to fill similar roles, and I've been happily using Mailbox for a few weeks, but I haven't seen a detailed comparison.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#48

Post by pssdbt » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:15 PM UTC

rs232 wrote: post #2

Is it still defaulting to "reply all"? That was a showstopper for me.

That almost bit me the first time. I think it may have changed a little at least though. I hit 'r' to reply and just tried it on a thread and noticed it only had the sender in the recipients field. Same if you click on the little reply icon to the right. The default if you click in the field does as labeled though, 'Reply to all'.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#49

Post by tsycho » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

jdmichal wrote: post #21

1123581321 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't have an issue with it because you could (and still can) email inbox@google.com and automatically get one. If a software company wants to test a new product with a subsection of its users, freely available invitations are the fairest way because the users most interested in the product seek out the invitations. The alternative is to rollout by IP address or some other system that shuts out willing participant…

Why not have the invitation be going to inbox.google.com? It's already gated behind a different URL; why force additional hoops? To weed out people who would put in the effort to go to the URL but not send an email?

Inbox probably requires Google to index your emails in a different way, for storing extra metadata for snooze returns, tags etc. Hence, there is probably a processing/migration step for would be beta users before they can start using inbox. Hence, just using a different website wouldn't have worked.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#50

Post by methou » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 4:17 PM UTC

I tried Inbox when they firstly released, soon as I found its essentially the same thing as Mailbox.app, I switched back to that.

Wait.. then M$ re-branded outlook on iOS, simply outruns both Inbox and Mailbox.