Seems to me that the spam filter has gotten worse lately--I've had a false positive for the first time I can remember, and regularly get 1 or 2 spam emails in my inbox each day. It's a testament to Gmail's normal spam performance that this shocks me, but shock me it does.
I have to say it's the lab features. With all the cool addon features you can enable on the fly. Canned responses and Undo features is the top 2 I can't live without.
Every thing not beeing a "full-blown" editor should have bindings to support a subset of your favorite keymap. So those who like Emacs or Vi, or Wordstar for that matter, could leverage their habits.
I use Yahoo! Mail for historical reasons. I receive about 12-20 emails per day. Besides writing and reading emails I use Search - that's the only thing I really need. I also started using folders this year: the folder names are 2005, 2006, ... 2008 :) Current year emails are stored in inbox.
On average day I spend very little time on emails, though.
I have a Gmail account, too, but I haven't found any Gmail-specific features I would use. Conversations or labels are neat and my spouse adores them. As for me I just don't care as long as my search box is working.
The "send to" feature using Gmail is my favorite. Combined with the ability to turn the email into a Google document it lets me research, write and format articles or web pages without ever leaving "the cloud".
Spam filter. Gmail has blocked 2000 spam in the last 30 days. Spam almost never makes it past that filter.
Second is the ability to easily manipulate large amounts of email. I mean, easily archive, make read, etc. any amount of email through search. I like to see when people follow me on twitter via email. I get an email everytime, which means there is a ton of email that I want to only look at once. Gmail allows me to go: Search:"Twitter", then "Select All", Archive. Now all that is out of my inbox.
Being able to archive stuff and find it again by searching, instead of having to organize old email into folders. I never realized this till Gmail, but folders were just a clumsy, manual precomputed search result. (So are most book indexes.)
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 78.8 ms ] threadKeeps my life in check.
But seriously, a good, no, great spam filter.
1 and 2 combined makes it a winner for me. :)
Every thing not beeing a "full-blown" editor should have bindings to support a subset of your favorite keymap. So those who like Emacs or Vi, or Wordstar for that matter, could leverage their habits.
Edit: Ah, it keeps future messages in the thread out of the inbox too. Neat.
This ensures that I see all threads at least once, but if I'm not interested in the thread, I never see it again.
I have a Gmail account, too, but I haven't found any Gmail-specific features I would use. Conversations or labels are neat and my spouse adores them. As for me I just don't care as long as my search box is working.
Second is the ability to easily manipulate large amounts of email. I mean, easily archive, make read, etc. any amount of email through search. I like to see when people follow me on twitter via email. I get an email everytime, which means there is a ton of email that I want to only look at once. Gmail allows me to go: Search:"Twitter", then "Select All", Archive. Now all that is out of my inbox.
Has anyone else made the switch from this to gmail?