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The two main things I miss from Inbox:

- The "Trips" feature... so easily you could see your flight details, your hotel details... vs. having to search your email box and having to go through emails upon emails

- The image previews! I do some artwork for my job, and it was SUCH a boon to see the images right there. You could actually click one of them, and preview all the images from an email conversation in a carousel fashion

Any ideas how I may be able to get this in Gmail somehow?

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> - The "Trips" feature... so easily you could see your flight details, your hotel details... vs. having to search your email box and having to go through emails upon emails

I'm not sure if they extracted it to a dedicated app or if the app was already there and Inbox integrated it, but Google Trips is exactly that.

omg thanks for sharing, never heard of this app before! I travel fairly regularly and having a place with all my flights is just a godsend that I missed from Inbox!

The difference though, Trips app doesn't really allow to manually handle linked stuff. In Inbox you could have moved an email with a PNR from one trip bundle to another and it automatically changed those bundles, as well as bundles in Trips app.

Oh yes the trips-feature! For me Inbox was the perfect email client. Felt much more organized and clean. The only thing missing was to attach images directly from Google Photos (although I think they had it for some time?!).

On Android I think Google has Google Trips app, which gets data from GMail emails you receive & google search you do.

This exists on iOS as well.

I am going to miss Inbox but sometimes it would pick an image for a bundle and show it prominently forever. It was not always an image I wanted to see all the time.

You can still get the old categories from Inbox (without the bundles) using the following Gmail labels:

label:trips

label:finance

label:purchases

label:social

label:updates

label:forums

label:promos

is:pinned

Ahh thanks!

I think you can recreate the "bundle" feature almost by using something like "label:promos in:inbox" to see all the promo labeled emails in your inbox. Then you archive them all at once.

Also the search options are reflected in the url, so can setup links for for the various labels.

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