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Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox by 8ytecoder on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:59PM (#17972608)
I agree. I maintained a pretty clean inbox without 10s of rules. And as you said, never forgot to reply. I actually checked even my promo emails because I had them appear only once a day and I can delete them all in one click after reading them. Google keeps taking away the good products instead of figuring out how to get wider acceptance. Inbox definitely had a learning curve but it was worth it.

If anyone has a good alternative please share

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Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox by pgm8705 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:11PM (#17972712)
Dealing with promo emails is one thing I'll miss the most, especially pinning the 1 or 2 you might want to keep and then sweeping the rest with 1 click. On desktop gmail you can reproduce this functionality by starring messages you want to keep and then bulk selecting using the "unstarred" option.

The ios gmail app does not have any good answer to this, though. You have to select each email one by one and then delete/archive.

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Re:Google is discontinuing Inbox by chrisseldo on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:22PM (#17972844)
> The ios gmail app does not have any good answer to this, though. You have to select each email one by one and then delete/archive.

This is what kills me about the iOS GMail app compared to Inbox. This feature needs to be ported to GMail before Inbox is gone.

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