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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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 Desktop all the way (laptop rather)Submitted by mpancha on December 13, 2007 - 1:43pm.
For me, its a desktop client. I have a laptop, it goes with me everywhere, and when I dont have it with me, its b/c I have no intention of doing work. Personal emails, well they aren't urgent, if a friend has to get ahold of me they'll call or SMS me. I use hotmail, gmail, even gmail hosted email for my business email... and its available if I need to check something when away from my own computer. But at the end of the day, I like having my data with me when I need it, and not have to worry about an internet connection to look up something from the past in my email. I use OS 10.5 and the new Mail, love it. » POSTED IN:
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