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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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 So not "identical"Submitted by Fofer (not verified) on December 14, 2007 - 11:28pm.
You didn't use Mailplane enough to understand it's draw. It's not just the Gmail web interface; it wraps a Mac app around it and ties in the OS resources. So you can leverage your local Address Book. Integrate iPhoto. Drag and drop attachments. These are things you can't do with standard webmail in a browser. And it has a built-in, Growl-happy notifier. Don't call it a joke just because you don't understand it. » POSTED IN:
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