The new gmail feature of multiple panes is awesome. I am using it to separate discussion from a certain listserv from my main stream (while still forcing it enter my attention) and see items I starred as important all in one view. Already I feel it will be a great productivity boost, helping me not lose track of important actionable emails, but also helping me make sense of the constant incoming stream.
I am talking about my personal gmail account here. I do not use gmail with my psu.edu address. And I can set up colors and filters in apple mail, but it does not give the nice one page dashboard view that gmail is providing here. It forces me to see everything. I don't have to click around.
Another new feature I found in gmail labs is the "Send and Archive" button. Now I can reply to an email and have it moved from my inbox all in one-click. Great for somebody trying to keep up with inbox zero.
Really, gmail is my favorite email program. It is a web-based app, but I like its functionality better than all the desktop-based alternatives I have tried.
Do you use it on your Air? I am curious b/c when I looked at it I thought it might gobble up quite a bit a screen real estate. Do you mind posting a screen cap of it in action.
To me this begs the question of if you'll move your PSU email to gmail?
It works fine on my air. It did not work very well on the dell mini, however.
I don't know If I'll move my psu email to gmail. It is a tempting, but ultimately sending @psu.edu mail from gmail's servers can cause some confusion. I am still sitting on this one for the time being.
thanks for this, Brad. The inability (or at least my inability to find a way) to display unread messages in gmail always drove me nuts. but I set up a panel for starred items and one for unread items that solves that issue for me.
also, I tried the panels to the sides and found them distracting. but when I moved them to the bottom of the screen they were fine, and because I display 50 messages per page it's not much scrolling at all.
Thanks for the link, very helpful.