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I actually like the new automatic categories. They work decently well for me. The main reason I like them is because I set it up so I only get notifications on
by nilkn 13y ago
I actually like the new automatic categories. They work decently well for me.
The main reason I like them is because I set it up so I only get notifications on my phone for the Primary category. Before, every random social network or promotion was giving me a notification on my phone, which I hated. Now I only get a notification for email I care about, and when I open up the Gmail app it fills me in on the random social and promotional crap I've "missed" out on in the meantime.
If important email ever ended up in the other categories, this would bother me, but so far it's worked well.
Notably, I don't use Gmail for work, and very rarely do I get truly critical email through my personal Gmail account.
- dguaraglia 13y agoThe problem is that the definition of "important" is highly dependent on context. Github messages are not "important" in my general mail (I have, on occasion, contributed to some open source repos, that doesn't mean I want to receive an e-mail every time a contributor makes a commit), but they are rather important in my work e-mail. I guess Gmail, optimizing for the most common case, broke all the others. That is acceptable for a freebie (my personal Gmail), but not for a corporate tool you pay for (my company's Gmail).