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Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by j_s »

roryokane wrote: post #57
davidw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail is starting to remind me more and more why I like free software so much: I want the ability to hack it to do what I want. The feature I'm desperate for is to have it use specific email addresses with specific people: dedasys.com for most correspondence, gmail with family, maybe hecl.org for that mailing list, and so on. Sure you can change it manually, but it's a pain in the neck. The reason I don't run my own…

At least Gmail, unlike Yahoo Mail (which I’m currently stuck with), allows free POP and IMAP access. If Gmail doesn’t support something, you can hook whatever email client you want to it. There is probably an open-source mail program you can write a plugin for to do what you want.

You can switch to Yahoo Asia to forward e-mail for free.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by tremendo »

DrewHintz wrote: post #37
tremendo wrote: post #25

Anybody else got the auto-playing music? For a while couldn't figure out where it was coming from, then I saw the red sign for the new Priority Inbox and at first selected "No thanks" but that did nothing, and not until I accepted to turn it on did the music stop. A bug? or some Google's programmer idea of being "helpful" or "funny"? I did not appreciate it.

What browser are you using?

Google Chrome 5.0.375.125 beta on Ubuntu Lucid

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by ricardo »

weavejester wrote: post #88
qeorge wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) The parent's link indicated that this is real usage data, from Campaign Monitor. CM and similar use tracking pixels, and can detect what client is being used to open the email. 2) I use Outlook all the time, as do many people I work with. Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search.

Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search. Really? I find Google Apps to be better in all four of those categories, especially search. What makes Outlook superior in those categories?

Outlook's market share isn't directly correlated to its capabilities. Many large organizations force their employees to use Outlook as their corporate standard.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by mike-cardwell »

davidw wrote: post #30
rsingel wrote: post #17

Having tested this the last few days, I would raise a rebel army if Google tried to take it away.

Gmail is starting to remind me more and more why I like free software so much: I want the ability to hack it to do what I want. The feature I'm desperate for is to have it use specific email addresses with specific people: dedasys.com for most correspondence, gmail with family, maybe hecl.org for that mailing list, and so on. Sure you can change it manually, but it's a pain in the neck. The reason I don't run my own…

Thunderbird + the "Virtual Identity" addon lets you do that

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by barrkel »

mdaniel wrote: post #63
barrkel wrote: post #53

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I get a lot of stuttering due to Youtube throttling bandwidth usage at the server end. Videos start great, but after that initial buffer is done with, it often inches forward too slowly to keep up with the playback rate. When this happens, and I really want to watch the video, I use FlashGot in Firefox to download the FLV directly and play it back in Media Player Classic.

This may not help your particular situation, but I'd urge you to try VLC ( http://videolan.org/ ) since it has awesome support for playing YouTube videos. It requires that you paste the YouTube URL into its "Open Network Stream" dialog, but is otherwise painless. Almost anything has to be better than using Media Player Classic.

VLC's user interface sucks, which is why I use MPC. Anything to avoid WMP.

In particular, adjusting zoom, aspect ratio, clipping area etc. with MPC, with the numeric keypad, is completely trivial, but a major pain in the neck with VLC. (E.g. how do you zoom to 102%? To 94%? How do you crop the top 8 pixels, because there's fuzz from overscan there?)

And keyboard shortcuts! Alt-Enter is nice and simple to use with MPC. With VLC, F11 goes full screen but still leaves control gunk visible; Ctrl+H removes the gunk, but - believe it or not - also disables F11! In full screen (F11) and controls hidden with Ctrl+H, it's surprisingly awkward to get back out again. Yes, you can use the "other" full screen by double-clicking with the mouse, but at that point it's clear that it's already lost.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by mike-cardwell »

levesque wrote: post #90
qeorge wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) The parent's link indicated that this is real usage data, from Campaign Monitor. CM and similar use tracking pixels, and can detect what client is being used to open the email. 2) I use Outlook all the time, as do many people I work with. Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search.

I work from multiple locations often, having my contacts, emails, calendar and tasks available from any location is very important to me. The only feature in which I think gmail is lacking/lagging behind is the tasks one. I've tried using synchronization tools before but they often deal with only one aspect at a time and do so rather poorly (last time I checked, about 1 and a half year ago)

GMail didn't support delegation or folder sharing last time I checked. Those are important requirements for many organisations.

This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by mike-cardwell »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #96
levesque wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work from multiple locations often, having my contacts, emails, calendar and tasks available from any location is very important to me. The only feature in which I think gmail is lacking/lagging behind is the tasks one. I've tried using synchronization tools before but they often deal with only one aspect at a time and do so rather poorly (last time I checked, about 1 and a half year ago)

GMail didn't support delegation or folder sharing last time I checked. Those are important requirements for many organisations. This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.

If you're downvoting because you disagree, at least explain why. The lack of folder sharing and delegation would both be show stoppers if my organisation was considering moving to GMail.

This new auto-filtering mechanism wouldn't even make it on to the interesting features list, let alone the desirable or required lists.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by pdx »

I need this to be integrated with the filters they already have.

For example, when my dad forwards me every joke that's ever been forwarded to him over the last 24 hours, I don't want them cluttering up my important emails. However, if he actually writes something (rare, but occasionally happens), than that's important. Integrating this with the filters would allow me to use the FWD: and FW: subject line tags to segregate his important vs his non-important emails.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by mike-cardwell »

weavejester wrote: post #88
qeorge wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) The parent's link indicated that this is real usage data, from Campaign Monitor. CM and similar use tracking pixels, and can detect what client is being used to open the email. 2) I use Outlook all the time, as do many people I work with. Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search.

Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search. Really? I find Google Apps to be better in all four of those categories, especially search. What makes Outlook superior in those categories?

Outlook searches within attachments. GMail doesn't.

Re: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

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Post by sublemonic »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #97
mike-cardwell wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GMail didn't support delegation or folder sharing last time I checked. Those are important requirements for many organisations. This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.

If you're downvoting because you disagree, at least explain why. The lack of folder sharing and delegation would both be show stoppers if my organisation was considering moving to GMail. This new auto-filtering mechanism wouldn't even make it on to the interesting features list, let alone the desirable or required lists.

I think HNers generally disagree with your statement:

This new feature GMail have announced is trivial and unimportant compared to many other features they could release.

The gmail team is not known for adding trivial or unimportant features. They probably deserve more credit than you are giving them.

Also, I'm not sure how delegation and folder sharing are related to email. Perhaps you could elaborate?

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