Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
by njhaveri on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:48PM
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Great feedback – I've gotten this request a lot today. It's been something I've always planned on doing, but based on the popularity of this request, this is a lot higher up on the list now.
Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
by jedberg on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:53PM
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Awesome! If you need more feedback or want to actually watch me work in gmail, I'm happy to do a screen share. My email is in my profile, hit me up if you're interested.
Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
by geoelectric on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:19PM
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I use priority inbox with custom queries too, so that's the missing killer feature for me. Right now I just use standard priority inbox with the four slots (starred, important+unread, unread, everything else) but multiple inbox with five sounds pretty good now that I see these queries.
I'm pretty hungry to switch from Spark and their intermediate servers, and I bet I'm not the only one. At work I use full GSuite integration, so am pretty much stuck with Wavebox or another Electron aggregator. But for personal use this hits exactly the right spot for me.
Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
by interactivecode on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:57AM
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Installed it but really miss the same categories as above! hopefully this can be added soon.
It doesn't seem to support priority inbox, which is critical to my workflow. My currently gmail inbox looks like this:
in:inbox is:important is:unread
in:inbox -l:important -is:updates -is:promotions -is:social
in:inbox -l:important (is:updates OR is:social)
in:inbox -l:important is:promotions
in:inbox is:important is:read
The only reason it's like that is because gmail limits you to five sections. Ideally I would split up updates and social.
The first section is my triage section, and the only one whose unread count I care about. The rest I try to triage by skimming once a day and cleaning once a week.
Then the last section is my "todo" section, things I have to respond to that will take more than a minute.
So if I could customize the interface with the searches I want and in the order I want, that would be ideal. And then have a view where I can select how many messages from each section are visible at once (like in Gmail's multiple inbox view).
If I could do that, I could easily see myself paying $100 for that, especially if it has a companion ipad/iphone app.