I found the icons a bit challenging at first (as a heavy user) but through that now.
It's really awesome to use in comparison with any other client I've worked with.
If I could change one thing it would be the unread/read background contrast.
It's really awesome to use in comparison with any other client I've worked with.
If I could change one thing it would be the unread/read background contrast.
Learning what the icons mean might take a little time and one might argue that spacial patterns are learned when reading anyways.
It's just a few symbols, I doubt that the difference between one symbol and 10 is that different for a learning machine like the human brain. (Especially since the location of the symbols is what matters. They show up in the same place every time, you only need the general shape of the word to confirm that's that right one.)
I guess I should learn the gmail keyboard shortcuts..
Indeed you should. Muscle memory for clicking buttons is vastly inferior to muscle memory for hitting keys. All the more so for sequences of buttons and sequences of keys.