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This is the best way to manage your mail ever. I get a good amount of mail everyday, I use Inbox since day 1, and this is just too good. I can quickly scan a tag/inbox, and if I doesn't see anything relevant, just click on done, goodbye. See something you wants to do later? Just pin it. It'll stay on top. Everyone should give it a try. The product is very well done, and if you care enough about your mail to try new things on your workflow, just use it, you'll never come back.

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Completely agree. I wrote a blog post about it a while back [0], but to me the killer feature is being able to pin items as to-dos (or create new todo's unassociated with an email), and then flip the switch so that you ONLY see these pinned items.

I love it because I can only look at my pinned items and focus on knocking a few out at a time, and only occasionally flipping back to the regular inbox view. (Which I find distracting when I need to focus.)

[0] - http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2014/12/02/the-super-magic-p...

I have been using the star/archive/spam method for a long time now in regular gmail. The inbox interface seems to slow down my flow, as it has little inbetween steps I find irrelevant.

I zip through my email in gmail using keybindings, se/e/! respectively with gmail set to go to next message automatically. Takes me a few seconds to go through about 20 emails, then I circle back to the ones I starred.

Inbox looks better, but feels a bit worse for me. Also, the no apps support as always is a downer, but us apps users are used to it.

Personally I'd love to try it, but all my work email is on Google Apps, not GMail, so no dice. I wish they had prioritized this because for me Inbox makes no sense for a low volume personal email account, which is what I use GMail for.

You can forward the work email to a regular gmail account (and set up the reply from feature so you can reply from yor work email address).

In some places that's a good way to get fired.

I get a lot of sensitive information in my work email; if I forwarded it all to a second account where my employer couldn't enforce things like two-factor auth I'd be in a lot of trouble.

I think it's terrible.

It doesn't sync with their previous star system, so you're unable to move back and forth on services when Inbox is buggy or vice versa. Inbox doesn't store any mail locally on mobile, so you're unable to search without an internet connection -- I am on the subway frequently and this is very problematic. With GMail, you have a one click delete system; with Inbox, you have two steps to permanently delete a message. This is cumbersome when you receive "a good amount of email", and you want to delete rather than archive.

It's a cleaner design, and the other features are nice incremental improvements, but the new features do not outweigh the benefits that the existing GMail app and service offers.

Eh... is there any way to email a list of people without constantly adding them one. by. one. every time?

I often use gmail to send emails to my family and I just have a "Family" contact group setup in Gmail to do that (so in Gmail I just type "F" "a" "m" <tab> in the To: box and it's all setup). Most annoying aspect for me to using Gmail on Android and using Inbox in general, honestly.

Inbox is amazing for consuming incoming mail, and I'm hoping it will soon be able to consume Exchange.

I thought maybe +circles replaced that, but I can't even figure out how to send an email to a +circle.

Either I'm really dumb, or something obvious is missing.

I tried using it, but all the "pretty images" I found obnoxious. Although I do like the "sleep" style options, where I can put stuff to sleep and get notified later. I noticed my email throughput had decreased significantly using Inbox.

I receive somewhere between 75 - 200 emails a day. I need to quickly scan over the email titles + bodies and just remove emails that are not necessary to respond to. Inbox doesn't really provide data as clearly. Though, if I wasn't receiving an email every few minutes Inbox does seem like a really awesome choice.

Eh honestly Mailbox by Dropbox does a better job. There are no silly bundles that Mailbox forces you into, better snoozes, as well as just a better mobile app.

Plus, there's the huge risk that Google will kill this off in a year or so. Based on that history alone, all users should be reluctant to get on board with it.

I don't use snooze, or reminder. This is why I never use Inbox, there's way too many action possible on 1 mail. The done, later, pin of Inbox is perfect for quick management.

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