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Gmail Turns 15, Gets Smart Compose Improvements and Email Scheduling (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the moving-forward dept.

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.

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  1. thank goodness for Thunderbird by swell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Lol, yeah. by apoc.famine · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  3. Need a better design by DarkRookie2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  4. That's nice... by sheramil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... as long as we can turn it off.

  5. Only April Fools use GMail by DogDude · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would anybody use Gmail? Is it really worth saving $2/month on email to let Google spy and catalog all of your email?

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