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How is this different than Mail and every other email client in existence? Don't get me wrong, it looks extremely good. However, I visited the site and immedi

How is this different than Mail and every other email client in existence? Don't get me wrong, it looks extremely good. However, I visited the site and immediately clicked on the back button. I've been using Google Inbox for a few months, and it radically changed how I handle my many mailboxes. It's not rare now that I actually achieve inbox zero. I would love to see the same amount of innovation that was put into Google Inbox (I think they might have acquired it, though?) in another email client, as I'm always looking to try things out. In Nylas, I see the same things that make dealing with email a pain: folders, the trash and spam being given the same importance as the inbox, etc. It's set up to make it a job to keep your emails organized, while you shouldn't keep them organized, because it's just doesn't matter: just reply and mark as done, snooze until you can reply and mark as done, or discard/mark multiple emails at the same time and go on with your life.

e0m 10y ago
Nylas Mail Basic and Nylas Pro are all built on an open source, highly extensible, modern platform. This lets us deliver a very familiar clean experience out of the box while supporting the ability to add an enormous number of very powerful features very quickly. Everyone uses email slightly differently. The plugins allow us to build Salesforce integration, tracking, templates, and mail merge for sales people, while offering an entirely different targeted set for other users. We intentionally "don't move the cheese to far" from existing clients to ease transition. There are a lot of grand ideas for radically different email experiences that fall flat due to their deviation from the core experiences most people expect and need. We instead believe that a handful of targeted features to a targeted group gradually develop into a very different way to interact with email for a very specific use case. (I'm an engineer at Nylas)
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  Your goals seem to be different than mine (and there's nothing wrong with that). I'd rather lose Salesforce integration, tracking, templates etc. and get the basics right: going through the dozens of emails we get every day. When we reply to emails we feel like we're being productive, but we're just taking time away from our actual job. If there's no easy way to easily differentiate between low priority and important emails—which Google Inbox does automatically by grouping them and letting you dismiss them all at once—you're not helping me. Again, the product looks awesome, this is just my point of view I thought I'd share.
pgm8705 10y ago
I love Google Inbox as well. The one downside that bothers me is its performance. It can be very slow and tends to gobble up resources the longer you have the tab open. I'm constantly on the lookout for a native desktop app that matches its features and ease of use.
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  Try WMail, if you're on a Mac (not sure if there's a Windows/Linux version). It's what I use, and I've notices a good improvement over the web version (besides the fact that it's in the Dock, with unread count). There's a helper that takes up about 300MB of memory, but it's stable at 300, never goes up.
rrdharan 10y ago
> I think they might have acquired it, though? Inbox is homegrown, not an acquisition. (work at Google)
- wanda 10y ago
  I suspect the parent is thinking of the Sparrow acquisition by Google, but Sparrow was a native app for OS X/iOS; thus it stands to reason that the acquisition was more of an acqui-hire for creating/refining Inbox. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/jmdenisme/status/524968589489479680 https://twitter.com/jmdenisme/status/524968589489479680
  - nkkollaw 10y ago
    Yes, I used to use Sparrow.

e0m 10y ago

Nylas Mail Basic and Nylas Pro are all built on an open source, highly extensible, modern platform. This lets us deliver a very familiar clean experience out of the box while supporting the ability to add an enormous number of very powerful features very quickly. Everyone uses email slightly differently. The plugins allow us to build Salesforce integration, tracking, templates, and mail merge for sales people, while offering an entirely different targeted set for other users. We intentionally "don't move the cheese to far" from existing clients to ease transition. There are a lot of grand ideas for radically different email experiences that fall flat due to their deviation from the core experiences most people expect and need. We instead believe that a handful of targeted features to a targeted group gradually develop into a very different way to interact with email for a very specific use case. (I'm an engineer at Nylas)

nkkollaw 10y ago
Your goals seem to be different than mine (and there's nothing wrong with that). I'd rather lose Salesforce integration, tracking, templates etc. and get the basics right: going through the dozens of emails we get every day. When we reply to emails we feel like we're being productive, but we're just taking time away from our actual job. If there's no easy way to easily differentiate between low priority and important emails—which Google Inbox does automatically by grouping them and letting you dismiss them all at once—you're not helping me. Again, the product looks awesome, this is just my point of view I thought I'd share.

pgm8705 10y ago

I love Google Inbox as well. The one downside that bothers me is its performance. It can be very slow and tends to gobble up resources the longer you have the tab open. I'm constantly on the lookout for a native desktop app that matches its features and ease of use.

nkkollaw 10y ago
Try WMail, if you're on a Mac (not sure if there's a Windows/Linux version). It's what I use, and I've notices a good improvement over the web version (besides the fact that it's in the Dock, with unread count). There's a helper that takes up about 300MB of memory, but it's stable at 300, never goes up.

rrdharan 10y ago

> I think they might have acquired it, though? Inbox is homegrown, not an acquisition. (work at Google)

wanda 10y ago
I suspect the parent is thinking of the Sparrow acquisition by Google, but Sparrow was a native app for OS X/iOS; thus it stands to reason that the acquisition was more of an acqui-hire for creating/refining Inbox. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/jmdenisme/status/524968589489479680 https://twitter.com/jmdenisme/status/524968589489479680
- nkkollaw 10y ago
  Yes, I used to use Sparrow.