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Sometimes I wonder what other people do with their phones to need these kinds of apps. Personally I use my phone quite extensively to search for routes (google

• rwalker 15y ago
  A couple things you mentioned here are great use cases of Greplin - to find that address you're getting a map for, to find phone numbers of the person you need to call, or to find out information about your upcoming sync'ed calendar event. Send me an email at robbyw at greplin dot com - I'd love to talk about if there is ever anything you wanted to find on your phone but couldn't.
  • jmathai 15y ago
    I'd have to agree with the parent. Finding an address has not yet been a big pain point for me while on my mobile phone. It's either in my calendar or in an email. And if not I can type it in or speak it (on Android) to get directions --- I typically remember the address. While email search can be slow and cumbersome at times it's what I would consider "good enough". I haven't used the app though and it might change my mind completely. I'd love to not have to open an application to start doing something. I'd like to speak an address or say a name or start typing a number and the phone be able to guess what my intention is and provide the best options. Sounded like that's in part what it does --- but I'd like that to be a native function of the phone, not provided via an app. Wonder how doable that is on Android. Presume not at all on iOS.
• masnick 15y ago
  One use case is searching multiple gmail accounts. I often need to search for a message in my secondary account (I'm logged into my primary acct in Safari on my iPhone). Before this, the options were: 1. Log out of primary account and log into secondary account (laborious, especially if you use 2-step auth) and search in the gmail webapp. 2. Search using the iPhone mail app (awful). (Makes me miss Android's native gmail app.) Greplin searches both email accounts and tons of other useful stuff.
  • redorb 15y ago
    3. option / Open a new incognito window, I've been using this method to manage multiple google accounts for a while.
    • cdr 15y ago
      Or a second Firefox profile.
      • rwalker 15y ago
        I think he was referring specifically to the painful nature of multiple accounts on the iPhone. In the browser, we've had great luck with Google's multi-accounts feature: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...
  • xyzzyz 15y ago
    GMail lets you setup mail forwarding of all incoming mails to a designated account and label them accordingly. It also lets you choose different email addresses to put in the From: header if you set this up. This way, you get all benefits of multiple accounts without all the hassle connected with signing in and out many times. I have _many_ different email addresses, but they all (except of the one at work, for obvious reasons) forward the mail to main one, which labels them for me to know their origin.
    • jmathai 15y ago
      Like+++++ I discovered this about 4 months ago and it's made my email life so much easier.