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I'm trying to move away from Google, but I'm struggling to find anything close to the quality of Inbox. It's pretty much perfect. And it gets a lot of its great

I'm trying to move away from Google, but I'm struggling to find anything close to the quality of Inbox. It's pretty much perfect. And it gets a lot of its greatness by reading my email and organizing my information and events for me. Is there anything non-cloud-based that I could use that even comes close to this?

y4mi 10y ago
really? i used inbox since the closed beta as well, but recently (january) switched to another mail provider and can't say i really miss it. its kinda nice, but it was pretty easy to replace it with some static mail routing rules (and the added benefit of a wildcard email address, making $whatever@domain.tld possible, consequently making these rules even easier).
- rthomas6 10y ago
  I planned a short vacation earlier this month which involved flights, 2 different hotels, and a rental car. Inbox automatically gave me an itinerary with a timeline of each thing in order with all relevant info (flight times, flight number, hotel addresses, rental car company and confirmation number, etc) on one screen I could look at on my phone. It added my trip (and hotel stays) to my calendar on the correct dates so I could plan better. And it did all this without me asking it to do anything. Literally all I did was make reservations for things. It figured out where I was going, and that the flights, hotels, and rental car were all part of the same trip.
yuvadam 10y ago
You don't have to self-host, there are many good email services out there that will happily take your business and are infinitely better than Gmail. I've been using Fastmail for the past few years and haven't looked back since.
pokemongoaway 10y ago
I think if we got a post to the top of HN we could get 20+ devs who all want this and could either make an OSS project or a competitive startup... Maybe I'm delusional though :)
dingo_bat 10y ago
If you're using android, have you tried outlook? I love the app. It's the best email app I've used, but I haven't used inbox much.

y4mi 10y ago

really? i used inbox since the closed beta as well, but recently (january) switched to another mail provider and can't say i really miss it. its kinda nice, but it was pretty easy to replace it with some static mail routing rules (and the added benefit of a wildcard email address, making $whatever@domain.tld possible, consequently making these rules even easier).

rthomas6 10y ago
I planned a short vacation earlier this month which involved flights, 2 different hotels, and a rental car. Inbox automatically gave me an itinerary with a timeline of each thing in order with all relevant info (flight times, flight number, hotel addresses, rental car company and confirmation number, etc) on one screen I could look at on my phone. It added my trip (and hotel stays) to my calendar on the correct dates so I could plan better. And it did all this without me asking it to do anything. Literally all I did was make reservations for things. It figured out where I was going, and that the flights, hotels, and rental car were all part of the same trip.

yuvadam 10y ago

You don't have to self-host, there are many good email services out there that will happily take your business and are infinitely better than Gmail. I've been using Fastmail for the past few years and haven't looked back since.

pokemongoaway 10y ago

I think if we got a post to the top of HN we could get 20+ devs who all want this and could either make an OSS project or a competitive startup... Maybe I'm delusional though :)

dingo_bat 10y ago

If you're using android, have you tried outlook? I love the app. It's the best email app I've used, but I haven't used inbox much.