Google's new "Inbox" hopes to simplify email

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story imageGmail is the email solution of choice for a huge number of Netizens, and that provides a rich playing field for developers hoping to be useful to you by providing tools that simplify email overflow. Enter Google with its latest endeavor, "Inbox." From Engadget:
If you're anything like us, Google's Gmail has an iron grip on your life. Google's looking to create a whole new iron grip with a new app from its Gmail team, and it's called "Inbox." What is it? That's a good question -- Google's made a demo slash advertisement video that we've dropped below. As far as we can tell, Inbox is a combination of Google Now and your Gmail inbox -- a "smart" inbox, if you will. It combines alike pieces of email (bank invoices, for example), highlights related information (like Google Now alerting you to flight changes, traffic, etc.) and keeps track of your life (it'll give you reminders, among other heads ups). Is this the end of Gmail? We seriously doubt it, but it is Google's latest foray into simplifying email.

Re: Does it really need to be... (Score: 1)

by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-23 18:03 (#2TMW)

Matter of taste. I like my stuff separated. 'Check and follow-up'... I see what you mean, but for me a couple of procmail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail) rules, which sort my email into folders, are totally sufficient. Everything in a standard format, so I never have to fear vendor lock-in is extremely important to me. Rule of thumb: If a program changes my mail folder in any way that I cannot open it in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_%28email_client%29 mutt anymore... it is dead to me. Even though I rarely use plain old mutt nowadays.
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