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Anyone know of an alternative email client that sorts your mail intelligently into promotions, updates, forums, primary like Gmail does? That's had such a posit
by timwis 8y ago
Anyone know of an alternative email client that sorts your mail intelligently into promotions, updates, forums, primary like Gmail does? That's had such a positive impact on my productivity I can't leave it behind (I've tried).
- ishansharma 8y agoSpark for macOS and iOS can do something similar for any mail accessible via IMAP/POP/Exchange.
- dibstern 8y agoSpark is notoriously bad for privacy. This is a really poor recommendation given the article.
- ishansharma 8y agoI am not aware of Readdle doing anything bad or having a bad reputation. How is it bad for privacy, just asking because I’m a regular user and would switch if it’s not good for privacy.
- sigzero 8y agoYour stuff goes through their servers to allow some of the features of Spark to work. Some people do not like that. https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy
- citrablue 8y agoIt's pretty easy (less than 2 hours work per quarter) to build your own filtering system that works similarly effectively. Google built a bunch of ML systems that work by default for everyone. Personally, I just have a bunch of filters setup that do the same thing. Has taken minimal effort but some discipline to file incoming emails based on my own patterns.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThis is what I've done as well. Mostly for social updates. Even when I was on Gmail, I found issues using smart labels because they weren't supported by other IMAP clients: It's still one big inbox. So I ended up creating my own filter rules to move them to a different folder. I've done the same for some of the more prolific marketing emails I still want to receive but don't want cluttering my inbox. (Note that FastMail does have filters that classify your inbox like Gmail: Personal, Notifications, and Mailing Lists. But while I highly recommend FastMail, I don't use those features because the aforementioned manual sorting rules are better, I brought them over when I migrated as well.)
- ma2rten 8y agoI use Gmail, but I deactivated that feature. It resulted in too many emails getting missed because they got categorized as promotions or updates. Here is what I now do instead: 1. I archive all incoming email unless I still need to act on it. Ideally my inbox should always be empty. 2. I unsubscribe from all unwanted email like newsletters and most social network updates. 3. I learned gmail keyboard shortcuts to clear my inbox quickly. 4. I use filters for some mailing lists. Since I started doing this I am much more on top of my emails. At least for me, most emails in those tabs was stuff I wasn't going to read anyway.
- dingo_bat 8y agoOutlook's focused and other segregation works well enough for me. I like the fact that in case of a miscategorization, it gives you very clear and explicit knobs to turn. Gmail classification always remains somewhat mysterious to me.
- pmlnr 8y ago"intelligently" I only had trouble with Google's "intelligent" sorting; you're better off with a proper filter system, like sieve, and setting it up for yourself. Eg. I remember reservation confirmations going into "promotions".