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Desktop or web-based email?
Mark J. Reeves | Dec 9 2007
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? 55 Comments
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 Eh..I wanted to switch back, but use two different computersSubmitted by vergil66 on December 10, 2007 - 10:26am.
I have a Mac at home and WinDozeDell at work and I occasionally use my wife's laptopXPMachine in the evenings. There is something to be said for portability. I'm playing with MailPlane.app also, but again, why have yet another InBox for info collecting when I could simply log in and fly through my GeeMail Inbox? I'm even tempted to play with Pine and Mutt again (because it's cool), but still, what would be the use? I still have to access from multiple platforms. The webmail, though not pretty, still takes less time and less syncing across machines, platforms and timezones. » POSTED IN:
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