{"id":46061,"date":"2014-10-24T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T03:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/playing-with-google-inbox.html"},"modified":"2014-10-29T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T13:49:19","slug":"playing-with-google-inbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/playing-with-google-inbox.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Google Inbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent in for an invite. I got an invite. I finally installed it today.<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaand?<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.  It seems to cluster email just as I would like, and it&#39;s fairly easy to correct it. The layout is clean, and things behave in a very modern Web fashion. I don&#39;t know that I would so far call it revolutionary, but it does seem to add a bit more intelligence to email management than the stock Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>(Someone observed, and I think it&#39;s accurate, that Inbox is an mail <i>application,<\/i> while Gmail is a mail <i>database.<\/i> Depending on how you like to look at your mail, that&#39;s a pretty good description.)<\/p>\n<p>More as I find faboo or fugly things about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6073881014174899025\/6073881035114136402'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-LxHajXM7fpE\/VErCnuH1w1I\/AAAAAAAC3PA\/uki9zo-WG3g\/intro-logo%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/DXfcfDRv4hS'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent in for an invite. I got an invite. I finally installed it today. Aaaaand? So far, so good. It seems to cluster email just as I would like, and it&#39;s fairly easy to correct it. The layout is clean, and things behave in a very modern Web fashion. I don&#39;t know that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/24\/playing-with-google-inbox.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing with Google Inbox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/intro-logo5B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51300,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/googles-inbox-is-now-available-to-all.html","url_meta":{"origin":46061,"position":0},"title":"Google&#039;s Inbox is now available to all","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-May-15 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So stop pestering me for invitations!Well, no, nobody asked me for invitations, but I would have been happy to share one. 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