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great link/look, just wish it was available in a more general-purpose form (ie not a firefox tool)
by jonnycowboy 17y ago
great link/look, just wish it was available in a more general-purpose form (ie not a firefox tool)
- scottjackson 17y agoIt looks like the guts of what Matt Constantine put into the Firefox add-on is covered by the userscripts mentioned here: http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/minimalist-gmail-how-to-get-rid-of-the-non-essentials/ http://zenhabits.net/2009/09/minimalist-gmail-how-to-get-rid... I'd guess that the Zen Habits article came first and then the Firefox extension was made for an easy one-click installation. Edit: I'm having trouble getting those userscripts to run in my Gmail Fluid app. Maybe there's some Greasemonkey-specific stuff going on in there...
- spudlyo 17y agoMy minimalist gmail interface is called "pine", which I believe is still considered to be the reference IMAP client implementation. If I were have to make this decision today, I might use something more powerful and extensible like "mutt", but for me pine is just fine. I started using it again a year back or so when Mail.app became too slow for me to use on some giant mailboxes I have. Deleting 5k messages from an IMAP folder in pine takes maybe 5-10 seconds. Try doing that in Mail.app. I found my email productivity went way up after switching, so I ended up using it exclusively, despite the ribbing my co-workers give me for using prehistoric email tools.
- RK 17y agoAlpine is UW's successor to Pine: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ http://www.washington.edu/alpine/