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This is more like a "how to revert to 2006 GMail" list. I mean, he even goes out of his way to turn off Priority Inbox and important markers. That has nothing
by adgar 14y ago
This is more like a "how to revert to 2006 GMail" list.
I mean, he even goes out of his way to turn off Priority Inbox and important markers. That has nothing to do with the redesign - it's just turning off year+ old features, which is what a good portion of the post is. Luckily for the author, options exist to turn off all the features that have been released in the past many years.
Of course, there's some apportioning of valid and invalid frustration with any redesign, and I won't invalidate any of that here. But this post just comes off as "make all the scary new stuff go away!"
- MaysonL 14y agoPriority Inbox is Google'S broken idea of what is important to me and what is not: it's ugly, distracting, and worse than without it.
- jasoncrawford 14y agoI tried Priority Inbox for a while when it first came out. It's an interesting feature and maybe it works for some people, but I decided I didn't need it. It didn't matter until the redesign, though. In the new design, the "importance markers" are very similar in appearance to the stars, and they are right next to each other. It's hard to tell them apart at a glance. That's why I finally had to turn them off.
- ericd 14y agoThanks for the tips, I'd done most of these when they changed to the new theme, but the the icon button/web clip tips escaped me. Thanks for those! I couldn't find the high contrast theme, unfortunately. As a random anecdotal data point, my inbox would be completely unusable without priority inbox. My email volume is way too high without it.