Andrew Hudson

Thoughts on Inbox

Thursday, 04 December 2014

I’ve been a keen user of google inbox for over a month and here are my initial thoughts. I love it! Plus points:

  • ability to tick all of the emails and threads that you have read or actioned and not see them on the main page
  • set up to-dos.
  • the design is really something special, it focuses you on the task in hand and looks stunning too.
  • I love that you can pin emails,
  • delay reading emails until later (e.g. tomorrow, next week, or some specified time).
  • automatic categorisation of emails into groups such as “Social” or “Purchases” or “Travel”,
  • delay reading these categories until a specified time each week or day.

Minus points:

  • Have to click on chat icon to then open new chats could this have been incorporated into the plus icon at the bottom right?
  • Difficult to see whether other chat people are online or not (unless they are using Inbox already)
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