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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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 Wishing for an email client that handles labels and real searchSubmitted by desparoz on December 10, 2007 - 1:35pm.
I came from a place where I used IMAP for years, with a variety of clients. Most recently was Thunderbird, before that Outlook Express. I have passionately disliked every version of Outlook up until 2003. I have not tried 2007, and hear there are improvements. I shifted over to Gmail, then to Google Apps, and don't look back. I did experiment with IMAP and Thunderbird recently, but have become too used to the archiving, threaded conversations, labelling and powerful search functions on Gmail/GApps. Downside of Gmail/GApps is that you are in browser (my three default tabs in Firefox are iGoogle, GApps and Google Reader). Being in a browser tends to lead you to browse. I'd also like drag and drop functionality, and integration with other apps. For me, the advantages of GMail/GApps outweight (significantly) the disadvantages. I would like to see the offline functionality, and would love to see a desktop app that supported labels, archiving, search, and threaded conversations. In fact, I've been wishing this for a while - in my 2006 Predictions (made in December 2005), I had this app being released as a Thunderbird upgrade as a prediction (no.1 actually). http://www.desparoz.com/index.php/2005/12/22/my-predictions-for-2006/ Cheers » POSTED IN:
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