Ask HN: Those who left Gmail behind, how do you live without bundling?

2 points by timwis 8y ago ↗ HN

I switched from Gmail to FastMail last year and loved it, but fell way behind on my email. I've realized that the way Gmail separates promotional, social, updates, and forums has a _huge_ impact on my ability to stay on top of my inbox. I'm really surprised it doesn't come up more often when discussing FastMail/ProtonMail etc. Am I missing something? How do you live without that feature? Do I just get more email than most, or is there some other workflow I don't know about?

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Artemix 8y ago ↗

I'm also a user of FastMail, and the thing is, I always struggled with this gmail "feature".

I want to be able to organise my emails as I want, and FastMail gives me exactly that.

I use a different username for each and every service, while keeping my domain as same, so I receive all emails to this domain and sort them as I want.

timwis 8y ago ↗

So do you just have a ton of inbox rules/filters set up?