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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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 Web based Gmail all the waySubmitted by magnoliasouth on December 10, 2007 - 10:15pm.
I cannot ever imagine life without Gmail. I also use it as a personal wiki (like the previous poster), it stores my contacts for me, and I worship labels and their spam filter. I also don't have to worry about my computer frying and losing all of my data as it has happened quite frequently in the past. Granted, Google could perhaps lose it all, but the odds of that are slim to none. The odds that my personal computer will go out one day are absolutely 100%. There is no doubt that's going to happen and I'm not good at backing up anything either. I also love that I can check my email from my cell too. Yep, web based Gmail is my one true love. » POSTED IN:
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