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An interesting read for the techies: Going under the hood of Inbox.
Having used it for a few weeks, by and large i like it however...
1. I have to click twice to view an email, rather than just once - i think this is a major downfall of the new program
2. If spam does get through, then as far as i can tell, i can only send it to spam rather than mark the email and all future emails from this sender as spam
I do like the ability to pin certain emails and also how the only email alerts i get via my phone are for 'of immediate interest' emails rather than promos
1. I have to click twice to view an email, rather than just once - i think this is a major downfall of the new program
2. If spam does get through, then as far as i can tell, i can only send it to spam rather than mark the email and all future emails from this sender as spam
I do like the ability to pin certain emails and also how the only email alerts i get via my phone are for 'of immediate interest' emails rather than promos
I'm not sure about it.
I went into the 'old' Gmail interface the other day and realised there were emails I'd missed entirely which a) isn't good and b) wouldn't have happened in Gmail.
I hope we're not all forced to move over to it as I think I ultimately prefer the simpler, more logical layout of Gmail rather than Inbox. I don't even like the way Gmail adds new emails to a 'conversation thread' when it's an entirely new email (eg. I email my digital payslip from my work to my Gmail account and it adds it to the one from last month which isn't what I want.
I don't do well with 'giving up control' of things to apps or algorithms as they don't work the way my brain does.
I went into the 'old' Gmail interface the other day and realised there were emails I'd missed entirely which a) isn't good and b) wouldn't have happened in Gmail.
I hope we're not all forced to move over to it as I think I ultimately prefer the simpler, more logical layout of Gmail rather than Inbox. I don't even like the way Gmail adds new emails to a 'conversation thread' when it's an entirely new email (eg. I email my digital payslip from my work to my Gmail account and it adds it to the one from last month which isn't what I want.
I don't do well with 'giving up control' of things to apps or algorithms as they don't work the way my brain does.
Mr Will said:
Really? It's not something I've noticed. Are you on Android, iOS or Chrome?
This is using it on Chrome - if there's more than one email within a bundle then first of all you have to click on the bundle and then click on the email itself rather than just clicking directly on the email you want to read - bit of a pain in the bum.Similarly on my iPhone 5 if there is more than one email in the bundle you have to click twice to read an email
Also, on the iPhone 5 if there is a link to a webpage it conveniently opens it within the 'inbox' mail itself rather than opening it in Safari. Whilst this is good if your screen is presumably as big as the iPhone 6, it's not so good on the 5 and, i think, you also can't zoom either so it makes it difficult to read; especially if the page you want to look at isn't web optimised
Bigbox said:
Mr Will said:
Really? It's not something I've noticed. Are you on Android, iOS or Chrome?
This is using it on Chrome - if there's more than one email within a bundle then first of all you have to click on the bundle and then click on the email itself rather than just clicking directly on the email you want to read - bit of a pain in the bum.Similarly on my iPhone 5 if there is more than one email in the bundle you have to click twice to read an email
Also, on the iPhone 5 if there is a link to a webpage it conveniently opens it within the 'inbox' mail itself rather than opening it in Safari. Whilst this is good if your screen is presumably as big as the iPhone 6, it's not so good on the 5 and, i think, you also can't zoom either so it makes it difficult to read; especially if the page you want to look at isn't web optimised
Interesting to hear how other people find it though. It certainly fits well with my way of working but that doesn't mean it fits everybody's.
I'm coming to really like Inbox. My inbox has never been so clear.
I suspect it's working againstSkynet's Google's plan as I'm now in the habit of deleting email that I'll not need to refer to again. Previously, because my inbox and archive were so full I never got round to clearing it out - back to 2006. 
I suspect it's working against
LordGrover said:
I'm coming to really like Inbox. My inbox has never been so clear.
I suspect it's working againstSkynet's Google's plan as I'm now in the habit of deleting email that I'll not need to refer to again. Previously, because my inbox and archive were so full I never got round to clearing it out - back to 2006.
Google never actually delete anything...I suspect it's working against
I don't always get timely notifications from the Inbox app on android. Does anybody else notice this ?
Worst example was last week; I received a notification of an email being received, but it took just over 4 hours before Inbox notified me. Anybody else find this ?
Sometimes the notifications are simultaneous, sometimes minutes apart, sometimes an hour apart; the example above has been the worst though.
It's for this reason I've not disabled notifications from the GMail app yet !
Worst example was last week; I received a notification of an email being received, but it took just over 4 hours before Inbox notified me. Anybody else find this ?
Sometimes the notifications are simultaneous, sometimes minutes apart, sometimes an hour apart; the example above has been the worst though.
It's for this reason I've not disabled notifications from the GMail app yet !
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