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Gmail introduced conversation threading, gigabyte storage, speed, powerful search, and lots more no?
by mathouc 13y ago
Gmail introduced conversation threading, gigabyte storage, speed, powerful search, and lots more no?
- dredmorbius 13y agos/gmail/mutt/ FTFY
- tim333 13y agoAnd decent spam blocking. I switched to Gmail after 10 years with Yahoo because I was fed up with 15 spams a day in the inbox.
- jol 13y agofor me: what is that "a lot more"? I just want to learn something new (btw, labels/tags are not really new, just redesigned imap folders)
- omh 13y agoTags have an important difference from folders in that messages can have multiple tags and you don't think of messages as being in a folder. Personally I find this quite useful and it definitely improved the way I use email.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoOpera Mail had tags quite early on, not sure if it was before Gmail though.
- hugofirth 13y agoNon trivial statistical analysis of email contents and your interactions with your email to effect decent prioritisation? That would be my top feature in gmail.
- Angostura 13y agoActually - when was conversation threading introduced in GMail? I know the Apple's Mail.app had it in 2011.
- Hurdy 13y agoIt was part of the initial launch in 2004.
- dalai 13y ago> conversation threading I believe this existed before gmail > gigabyte storage was not a tech problem before > speed in what way? the ui was and still is as fast as most lightweight desktop clients > powerful search maybe, although some clients supported powerful search with regex before I think gmail was not that innovative, but it did bring everything together very well, in a very user-friendly way, along with some new-ish stuff like tags and the no need to delete anything.