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March 10, 2005
Thunderbird and Gmail
Gmail got a lot of press when it was announced because it has a Gigabyte of storage. At the time it was a huge number, but since then just about everyone else in the free Email biz has caught up. The one place where Gmail excels is it User Interface design...
If you’ve not used Gmail (I’ve got a lot of invites, so Email me), you don’t know how easy Email sorting can be. Instead of dropping everything into folders, Gmail allows the user to stick a label-- or several labels-- on it, and drop the message into an archive. If you want to find it later, simply run a search for the message and Gmail will pull it up for you. In this manner, only Email you still want to see stick around in your inbox. The rest can be safely pushed into the archive...
One other feature which Gmail has is the conversation view. Conversation view groups Email to/from the same people with the same topics together into a series of tabs. No more need for ">". ">>", etc!
Together, these features represent a revolution in Email GUI design. It sounds like the design team for Mozilla Thunderbird have Caught on...
Posted by Andrew at March 10, 2005 03:23 PM
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