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So, the thing that irritated me the most about Gmail now has to be my favorite thing about it.
Gmail groups your messages together by conversation. This is confusing when you are used to the normal Outlook (or other varying email client) which has each conversation item separate, but if you use the Gmail website or the Gmail client for your smart phone, it is so nice.
Case in point: we are going to Kansas City this weekend with 8 other people to tailgate for the Twins vs Royals series. So, 10 people all emailing back and forth can be an email client nightmare with all of the responses to responses. But in Gmail? No problem. All 17 emails in one string are nicely grouped together. And if someone sends a new message out with a different subject line, you can just label them with color-coded labels so that you can easily group together and see all of the emails in the total conversation at once.
How is this even better than just creating new folders in your email client? Because you can also use multiple labels on each email. I haven't found an easy way to put an email in Outlook into multiple folders. But, say, if an email has two labeled topics in it (Kansas City this weekend and Twins game last weekend), you can label it as such and still see all pertinent emails together.
I am an uncompensated endorser for Gmail. I am just currently quite happy with it.
Gmail groups your messages together by conversation. This is confusing when you are used to the normal Outlook (or other varying email client) which has each conversation item separate, but if you use the Gmail website or the Gmail client for your smart phone, it is so nice.
Case in point: we are going to Kansas City this weekend with 8 other people to tailgate for the Twins vs Royals series. So, 10 people all emailing back and forth can be an email client nightmare with all of the responses to responses. But in Gmail? No problem. All 17 emails in one string are nicely grouped together. And if someone sends a new message out with a different subject line, you can just label them with color-coded labels so that you can easily group together and see all of the emails in the total conversation at once.
How is this even better than just creating new folders in your email client? Because you can also use multiple labels on each email. I haven't found an easy way to put an email in Outlook into multiple folders. But, say, if an email has two labeled topics in it (Kansas City this weekend and Twins game last weekend), you can label it as such and still see all pertinent emails together.
I am an uncompensated endorser for Gmail. I am just currently quite happy with it.
