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Gmail Turns 15, Gets Smart Compose Improvements and Email Scheduling (techcrunch.com)
Today, to celebrate its fifteenth birthday, the Gmail team announced a couple of a new and useful Gmail features, including improvements to Smart Compose and the ability to schedule emails to be sent in the future. From a report: Smart Compose, which tries to autocomplete your emails as you type them, will now be able to adapt to the way you write the greetings in your emails. If you prefer 'Hey' over 'Hi,' then Smart Compose will learn that. If you often fret over which subject to use for your emails, then there's some relief here for you, too, because Smart Compose can now suggest a subject line based on the content of your email. With this update, Smart Compose is now also available on all Android devices.
use Gmail.
It's beyond the end of March and I'm happily using Inbox.
This whole EOL for Inbox better of been an April fools joke.
Yeah, it's crappy. It's been ignored for years. But it mostly works and I never have to put up with those oddball webmail interfaces. All my inboxes work in the same reliable way they have for years and Tbird doesn't try to think for me.
...omphaloskepsis often...
I tried smart compose for all of one email, and every single suggestion it had was laughably off. I gave it 3 paragraphs to be useful, and it's clear that it's nowhere near useful. And it's not like I was typing something complicated - I was discussing trip logistics with a family member. There was not a single suggestion that I would have remotely considered selecting. It was baffling.
I'm unclear who wants this sort of "help". It's so half-baked and shitty that I can't help but think that it's just more data collection that they hope will be useful in the future. It is 100% not ready for prime-time, unless you're writing at a 3rd grade level or below. And even then, I kind-of doubt it.
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April fool!
No sig today...
GMail looks terrible now. Matrieal Design is terrible in general. Each app that uses this seems to be slow.
It's also a lot slower than it use to be.
It was the last straw on having a Google account.
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In the era of fake news these (bad) April 1st jokes just conflate the issues. :-/ Can't we just tag the bloody articles to stop wasting everyone's time?
Would prefer to have real news where there is no ambiguity then fake news and uncertainty if it real, fake, or April fools. That's just my personal preference. What's yours?
... as long as we can turn it off.
Yes, but will it ever exit Beta?
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Why would anybody use Gmail? Is it really worth saving $2/month on email to let Google spy and catalog all of your email?
I don't respond to AC's.
I would love to have a filter to delete my email after X days. I get lots of mail generated from daily and weekly jobs. I don't need to keep for more than a week or two and it would be nice if they could delete themselves.
Why is there no simple way to automate this?
It's like we're getting to the point in that short story by Isaac Asimov: "Fault Intolerant."
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I always liked his stuff about automation. The Reeks and Wrecks from "Player Piano" always seemed pretty predictive.
I'd just like to recall how revolutionary Gmail's launch was back then - 1GB of free email space was completely and utterly unheard of back then. Free providers offered aprox. 10MB or maybe even 100MB of space back then, and emailing people was a really bad experience, because you would quite often get "the recipients mailbox is full" bounces.
The confusion of something as ludicrous as 1GB free mail space being launched on a 1st of April was just sugar on top. We REALLY didn't know if Google was being serious or not.
Clippy has been reborn and thanks to the magic of marketing is now considered "smart"
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Tagging here because I suspect it's an April Fool story...
However, future delivery is something I've been advocating for several years. I'm betting the google mucked it up. Right now that's basically a wager until I see how it works. I know how I want it to work, but the REAL problem is that I'm time-centric and today's google is all about the money.
For example, I want to combine future delivery with the unsend feature by having an option for a default future delivery time. ALL of my email would be delayed a bit, NOT just the 30-second delay of the unsend feature. The best value depends very much on how you think, but I think I would set it for an hour. That's enough time for the ideas to percolate a bit, and if I feel uncomfortable, I would be able to get the email and look at it again before it gets sent. If I want immediate send because it really is urgent, then it would be the same as invoking the future delivery option, but instead of setting it for some date in the future, I would just pick 1 minute from now. Or that could be masked as an "urgent" email option, with one click (or a menu and click) to mark it urgent and to send it immediately.
So when should I go see how the google has bollixed it? Now I've gotten my hopes up again, and today's google is always dashing them.
(Sort of like my recent disappointments with Slashdot, though the solutions are more obvious here because the scopes of the problems are smaller. The difference is that the google has lots of money to play with because some parts of their business model are viable, while Slashdot has become a sort of weird basket case surviving on someone's charity.)
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Should mention the other email options that are at the top of my wish list:
(0) An effective spammer-fighting system to help put the scammers out of business. "Live and let spam" is NOT a solution. The basic principle is that only the potential victims know for sure.
(1) Reject and bounce confidential-mode email. If you don't trust me that much, I do NOT want your email.
(2) Reject no-reply email. If you don't care enough to receive my reply, then I do NOT want your email. And you don't even deserve to know it was never delivered.
As usual, I have to close on grounds of time, but I'll bid you ADSAuPR, atAJG.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Not clear which of the new features you're talking about, but I read the description of the future delivery and it appears to be opt-in, so it won't get in the way. However, after checking with Gmail, the feature is not actually where it is supposed to be. I think the description sounds right, so I'm hoping that the upgrade is not fully propagated yet. It's supposed to be a pull-down option off the send button, but I can't find it yet.
My main concern is if it is only absolute time, or if it supports relative times as well.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Ever since their update last year, I frequently read emails, close my browser and come back later to see Gmail still shows those emails as unread. I've noticed if I read an email, I have to stay in my browser for 5-10 seconds before Gmail will mark it as read. This never happened before their update last year.
Isn't it about time for Google to put an end to GMail? Every other service of theirs I've tried to use got abandoned. I keep wondering how much longer they'll have search.