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I like Inbox, and I use it...but have you noticed that, stunningly, you can search for things in Inbox and get zero results and then take that same search into

I like Inbox, and I use it...but have you noticed that, stunningly, you can search for things in Inbox and get zero results and then take that same search into _gmail_ and get results?? (Unfortunately, no, I don't have an example I can demonstrate extemporaneously)

kyrra 9y ago
Search for emails should be the same between the 2. But I believe Gmail will search other things (like Hangouts chats and maybe other products), while Inbox's search just does email.
- stinky613 9y ago
  Maybe the search is less different than I think it is. But there are other things... like, am I wrong, or can you still not Mark As Unread in Inbox? Last I checked, you couldn't mark as unread, and if you tried to find out how you'd run into zealots who tell you that your use-case is wrong and that you're using Inbox wrong. So, okay, say I accept that premise; say I accept that there are some things that are just 'the Inbox way' and others are 'the gmail way'. With the click of a button, Gmail lets you save all attachments to Google Drive or download all attachments as a zip--why in the world wouldn't they include that with Inbox? Gmail lets you click an icon in the search bar to reveal advanced search options; if you need to search for something that has an attachment in Inbox you need to either A) google how to do it or B) try to remember "now was it has:attachment? or has-attachment:true? has-attachment:yes?". Is it really so distracting having that little down-arrow icon in the search bar? Also, testing just now I found that the pagination in gmail would let me browse through hundreds of search results going back to 2012 whereas the Inbox endless-page stopped loading additional results by the time I got to email from 2014.
area51 9y ago
This happens to me _everytime_. So frustrating. Is it possible that inbox only searches the literal "inbox" whereas Gmail searches your entire mailbox?
kbenson 9y ago
Inbox doesn't search hangouts conversations, which is a huge annoyance for me. You can load gmail and search and get those results, so it's annoying that you can't get it in Inbox. Other than that, I really prefer Inbox.
- stinky613 9y ago
  Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??
  - applecrazy 9y ago
    I didn’t even know that was a thing until today, and I’ve been using Gmail for a decade.
- m-p-3 9y ago
  If at least it was possible to search something in a conversation from the Chrome extension, that would solve the issue for me.

kyrra 9y ago

Search for emails should be the same between the 2. But I believe Gmail will search other things (like Hangouts chats and maybe other products), while Inbox's search just does email.

stinky613 9y ago
Maybe the search is less different than I think it is. But there are other things... like, am I wrong, or can you still not Mark As Unread in Inbox? Last I checked, you couldn't mark as unread, and if you tried to find out how you'd run into zealots who tell you that your use-case is wrong and that you're using Inbox wrong. So, okay, say I accept that premise; say I accept that there are some things that are just 'the Inbox way' and others are 'the gmail way'. With the click of a button, Gmail lets you save all attachments to Google Drive or download all attachments as a zip--why in the world wouldn't they include that with Inbox? Gmail lets you click an icon in the search bar to reveal advanced search options; if you need to search for something that has an attachment in Inbox you need to either A) google how to do it or B) try to remember "now was it has:attachment? or has-attachment:true? has-attachment:yes?". Is it really so distracting having that little down-arrow icon in the search bar? Also, testing just now I found that the pagination in gmail would let me browse through hundreds of search results going back to 2012 whereas the Inbox endless-page stopped loading additional results by the time I got to email from 2014.

area51 9y ago

This happens to me _everytime_. So frustrating. Is it possible that inbox only searches the literal "inbox" whereas Gmail searches your entire mailbox?

kbenson 9y ago

Inbox doesn't search hangouts conversations, which is a huge annoyance for me. You can load gmail and search and get those results, so it's annoying that you can't get it in Inbox. Other than that, I really prefer Inbox.

stinky613 9y ago
Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??
- applecrazy 9y ago
  I didn’t even know that was a thing until today, and I’ve been using Gmail for a decade.
m-p-3 9y ago
If at least it was possible to search something in a conversation from the Chrome extension, that would solve the issue for me.