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Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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Oh, good. Now I can stop using the old interface in Firefox. That makes me happy; Inbox works with my brain a lot better.

Actually even before this announcement it worked fine in Firefox - you just had to change your user agent (or install one of the numerous extensions).

Google said it was because it was "slow" under Firefox, but since I never noticed a bug or any slowness on my two year old Macbook Air, it looked more like they just wanted to push Chrome to me.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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I tried Inbox when it first started and I can say I pretty much hate it. It seems like it is a change just for changes sake. It doesn't seem to make me more productive in my inbox, only more frustrated that I can't seem to find the things I want. Everything seems jumbled and just is a mess. If they make it the default I can see myself actually going back to a desktop client and using something else for a mobile clien…

I had the opposite experience. I managed to go through my entire 5 years worth of old emails and get down to inbox zero. I love the snooze and pin features. The Android app is awesome. Swip to archive is such a nice way to deal with email, which (in my case) is 90% scan and bin. The web app isn't so awesome, mainly because of the lack of gestures. Reminders added in Google Now show up in Inbox as well so I can be wal…

I LOVED Inbox when it first came down, but earlier this week I switched back to gmail.

- I love the snooze and remind me later feature, but I absolutely hate their touchpad/scroll support, I don't understand how mails get automatically marked done when I am just trying to read them.

- The app is super heavy for my 2GB RAM Macbook Air(I have one for lightweight surfing at home), it slows down everything.

- The 3 clicks I have to do in order to read a single mail eventually got to me. Take for instance, imagine if I got a new mail, how many clicks do I have to do in order to read it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0tyqaualc7dpq7/Screenshot%202015-... Inbox's answer is 2 clicks, one for expanding the 'finance' section and second to open that mail. Isn't my intent obvious when I click on a folder that I wanna read that lone mail when I click on it? After clicking twice for 30 something mails a day, it got annoying.

- Inbox doesn't scan my hangout messages whenever I use its search. I search my hangout messages a lot, that means I return back to gmail. I assume they will add this functionality in future.

- The reply mess. If you are responding to an email, it has a decent inline responding ability, but the moment you stop responding or move away, you can't come back to the inline reply, you HAVE to edit that response outside of that experience. I see no reason why that should be the case.

- My corporate gmail accounts don't support inbox, so it ends up me having a weird experience of constantly using gmail and inbox both

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#53

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…

I tried using it, but all the "pretty images" I found obnoxious. Although I do like the "sleep" style options, where I can put stuff to sleep and get notified later. I noticed my email throughput had decreased significantly using Inbox.

I receive somewhere between 75 - 200 emails a day. I need to quickly scan over the email titles + bodies and just remove emails that are not necessary to respond to. Inbox doesn't really provide data as clearly. Though, if I wasn't receiving an email every few minutes Inbox does seem like a really awesome choice.

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#56

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…

Eh... is there any way to email a list of people without constantly adding them one. by. one. every time?

I often use gmail to send emails to my family and I just have a "Family" contact group setup in Gmail to do that (so in Gmail I just type "F" "a" "m" in the To: box and it's all setup). Most annoying aspect for me to using Gmail on Android and using Inbox in general, honestly.

Inbox is amazing for consuming incoming mail, and I'm hoping it will soon be able to consume Exchange.

I thought maybe +circles replaced that, but I can't even figure out how to send an email to a +circle.

Either I'm really dumb, or something obvious is missing.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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I tried Inbox, really tried to love it, eventually switched back. It's something about how it sorts or arranges your mail in non-chronological order that really messes with my way of finding things. Also only being able to see 7 emails on the screen is a huge issue - if I get 20+ emails, I'm not able to glance through all of them to get a sense of how much work I have to do that day. The end result is that I felt very uncomfortable and insecure using it, even though my brain told me that I loved it (because of the nice fast UI).

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

#58

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…

Eh honestly Mailbox by Dropbox does a better job. There are no silly bundles that Mailbox forces you into, better snoozes, as well as just a better mobile app.

Plus, there's the huge risk that Google will kill this off in a year or so. Based on that history alone, all users should be reluctant to get on board with it.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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post #58

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…

Eh honestly Mailbox by Dropbox does a better job. There are no silly bundles that Mailbox forces you into, better snoozes, as well as just a better mobile app. Plus, there's the huge risk that Google will kill this off in a year or so. Based on that history alone, all users should be reluctant to get on board with it.

I don't use snooze, or reminder. This is why I never use Inbox, there's way too many action possible on 1 mail. The done, later, pin of Inbox is perfect for quick management.

Re: Inbox by Gmail: now in more places

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I tried Inbox, really tried to love it, eventually switched back. It's something about how it sorts or arranges your mail in non-chronological order that really messes with my way of finding things. Also only being able to see 7 emails on the screen is a huge issue - if I get 20+ emails, I'm not able to glance through all of them to get a sense of how much work I have to do that day. The end result is that I felt ver…

And my Gmail experience improved substantially with the introduction of tabs (Primary, Social, Updates..) so I did the same as you.
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