Re: eM Client email client

I'm an old fart and I love the gmail interface. Can't imagine being
without it.

Don't sort the inbox. Here's what I do:

filter into labels with automatic archive

Think of a label as a folder, but not quite. An email can show up in
multiple labels (not possible with folders) if you want. A filter is a
rule that says what to do with a particular email. Archive means remove it
from the inbox (archive does NOT put it in the trash and does NOT mark it
read).

I get over 200 emails per day in my work account. Less than 10 stay in my
inbox and the rest are put into labels automatically by filters I set up.
I have approximately 75 labels that are fed by as many or more filters.
All midrange-L goes into a single label. Midrange non-tech goes into it's
own label. Every one of the midrange.com lists I subscribe to has it's own
label. Everything from Amazon goes into it's own label. Everything from
an @dilgardfoods.com address goes into the Dilgard label, UNLESS it has to
do with backup, then it goes into the Backup label. Everything from
Verizon goes into the Verizon label. And on and on and on. It is a
tremendous timesaver for me.


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John, I'm guessing you're one of those younger folks that thinks along the
lines that the google developers do, I just don't see the google email
client as that friendly (neither do most of my colleagues). If you need to
completely change how you think about something as simple as email in order
to use the client, the client is the problem not the user. I've been doing
email on the internet since before there were clients, it was all character
based back then and far more simple. Somehow I would love the WWW go to
away and go back to the original internet, but then again, I am the
troglodyte
in the room usually.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:47 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gmail web clients are
simply awful from a usability standpoint (in my view) so that's not a
solution, as much as I wish it would be. I would love to kick the
dedicated client out, but alas the web based clients are just not there

for

business use yet.

I don't know what other "Gmail web clients" there are besides the
official Gmail browser-based client from Google. But I love that one.
I'm using it right now. I can understand how people could find it
"unusable" but it's kind of like the difference between a conventional
bike and a recumbent bike. If you're comfortable with a conventional
bike and have always used one, the recumbent looks and feels
ridiculous. But if you get used to the recumbent, it can make the
conventional seem awkward and inefficient.

The Gmail browser interface does force you to think differently (do
everything with tags and search, no real "sorting" to speak of). And
to be fair, I do like Outlook for business use. For me, Outlook's big
advantage is that it has pretty strong integration between e-mail and
the calendar. It's definitely an essential part of our company's
infrastructure.

John Y.
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