Desktop or web-based email?
Submitted by circa1977 on December 9, 2007 - 12:49pm.
After getting used to Gmail 3 years ago, I swore I’d stick to web-based email. With IMAP now available, I set it up last week in Apple’s Mail client on my desktop to integrate better with offline storage, emailing links, etc, and found myself changing my ways.
It wasn’t easy: The initial download took forever and I had to work at getting Apple’s Junk Filters to cooperate. (I.e., still work on the 2 POP accounts I check in Mail while leaving Gmail’s already filtered mail alone).
I’m a convert. I used to open a browser window with three tabs: Google homepage, RSS, and Gmail and check it throughout the day. Now I’m in Mail only when I need to be, and ignore RSS and news until it occurs to me to catch up.
I did really like the Gmail interface, with conversations, shortcuts, etc, but I’ve been trying to make Safari my full-time browser and it wasn’t playing nice. I’ve found a surge of productivity by sticking to the desktop.
How do others find web-based vs. desktop email to impact their productivity?
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I’ve done exactly the same thing and gone to using Mail.app from web browser with several google apps open at once. It has made me waste less time as now “I’ll just check my mail” is just that with no distracting browsers :) Also the fact that my work mail is also IMAP means I can have all accounts in one app. Definately a time saver!