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Turning off tabbed inbox was huge in helping me get down to zero emails. It got me back to one stream of data to watch and manage. Something comes in, I see it
by atomicfiredoll 2y ago
Turning off tabbed inbox was huge in helping me get down to zero emails. It got me back to one stream of data to watch and manage. Something comes in, I see it and process it. It also made the number of unread easier to reason about.
I do use filters now, but haven't always because I was always looking for a "move to label" option in the "Create Filter" dialog. Instead, Gmail calls that "Archive," which I assumed sent it to the Negative Zone of some special compressed archive. I'm an idiot, for years I just assumed Google didn't build a move feature into it's filters.
[That said, I do find Gmail (and other Google UIs) to be full of little points of frustration like this. Maybe others have had better luck with it, but Tabbed Inbox almost feels like it's designed to make me ineffective.]
- jeffbee 2y agoI said the same thing when they launched it. It was a poor man's copy of the much better concept of "bundles" from the Inbox product. Bundles made it easier to cope with your email by only surfacing those categories once per day. Tabbed inboxes makes it harder by putting a notification badge in your face all the time.
- atomicfiredoll 2y agoAh. I never had Inbox, so now it makes some sense to me (at least from a historical perspective.)