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At my day job we are asked to use Box (enterprise), and while it is ok (not great, but not totally awful) as a solution for sharing/distributing files for both
by mxuribe 10y ago
At my day job we are asked to use Box (enterprise), and while it is ok (not great, but not totally awful) as a solution for sharing/distributing files for both internal and external recipients (avoiding those emails with huge attachments)...It absolutely sucks at searching for your files. I starting using tags - similar to Gmail's excellent labels - with the hopes of finding my files without getting a ton of irrelevant stuff...but no dice. Searching for files in Box still so often brings up irrelevant files as to be counter-productive. Again, Box has its benefits, but point blank, search is broken within Box...which means for my team and I to find things we can not depend on search (or tags/labels)...which means we have to depend on old school folder hierarchies; and all the potential downsides that it brings. My hope is this partnership DOES bring some of google's search prowess into the Box product.
- cptskippy 10y agoI seem to regularly have problems with Gmail's searching. Searching for an email composed and sent on a device other than the one you're using to search is a crap shoot. I don't know if it's sync issues but I've had a lot of trouble trying to find emails I know I sent only to open another device and find them.
- mxuribe 10y agoI have not had that experience. However i will state thaT what really augmented my searching within gmail (both from desktop and mobile) is using the search operators. Admittedly i only use 2 or 3 of them, but even just those few provide so much power in really filtering down to the relevant emails. Check out the following reference: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en I had read an older version of this, but i'm sure this version will suffice to help you. Good luck!
- zachlatta 10y agoHave you made sure that your devices are putting emails sent from them in the right folder? I had this issue for a while and it turned out that my phone made it's own "Sent" folder in addition to Gmail's existing one, which completely screwed up search.
- cptskippy 10y agoI only use the Gmail app on Android and the web interface.
- snowwrestler 10y agoI have not had that problem, but I use Gmail natively on all devices--i.e. on my iPhone I use Google's Gmail app instead of Mail. On my Macs I log into Gmail in the browser instead of using Apple Mail.
- paulryanrogers 10y agoPerhaps that's why the pragmatic programmer book was so big on text files for everything. Even if all you have is grep and find they'll work.