More Gmail
My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that.
I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month or so and reading it there. When I went on vacation for a week I was reading it on my phone that way. Since I spend my life in a browser I find it very convenient.
I''m loving the rules and labels. It took a few days to think labels rather than folders, but just as in CMS I do prefer the use of labels. The rules ROCK. I have some important ones that forward to SMS which is sooooooo handy. Everyday I add more rules to automatically sort emails into a label and out of the Inbox.
I'm not quite sure yet if the order of rules is important; I'm stuck thinking in Outlook mode where the order is very important and liberal use of "stop processing more rules" is applied to get an email into the "right folder". Of course, this is an advantage of labels (tags) over folders (categories) - an email can be in multiple tags.
For now, Outlook is still the app that deletes my email from the server, although I find myself never checking Outlook for personal email any more so that will soon change I'm sure. I'll delete the Outlook account and ask Gmail to delete from the server as it retrieves.
Btw, did I say what a breath of fresh air search is in Reader and Gmail? So nice. I haven't been able to (effectively) search in Outlook for some time now.
Calendar's is the one thing that is holding me back - I'm using outlook for personal use too and that is integrated into my phone via Exchange. I read yesterday via Matt Cutts that there is finally Google-Outlook integration but I haven't looked at it yet. If that's true, if I can get Google Calendar to appear on Outlook and my phone then I'm moving over to that too.
(Yeah I know there are 3rd party apps that do the integration, but I always figured that Google would do it so I waited)
Integration is the key I'm finding - just like we all thought Office was integrated, now I'm getting hooked into my Google Account. Everything fun is in there - all my webmaster tools, analytics, reader, gmail, adsense, adwords, base, notebook, bookmarks. Wow, when I list how much of my life is in Google's hands...
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