Gmail Webmail Non-mobile Non-app Advanced Search Tutorial
Around here we’ve had a week of “digging up bits of non-immediate communication” relating to organizational and end of year and car maintenance issues and we related to …
… Meatloaf’s “Two Out of Three Aint Bad” a lot, because where incarnations of Gmail …
- iPad via its Mail app … versus …
- macOS via Gmail Webmail (ie. not an app, but via a URL via a web browser)
… means of searching for email things were pitted against each other, and a lot of you will concur with our verdict … macOS via Gmail Webmail is sooooooo much better at this. Maybe that is (to do with) the devices, perhaps, but there has also got to be an element of …
- you can lose functionality as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion
- you can lose (the feel of) “the room to move and think, and so are willing to wait for processes to finish” as a trade off for smaller screen sizes, on occasion
And though it may be there with “iPad via its Mail app” we relied on “macOS via Gmail Webmail” (incarnation’s) Advanced search option …
Mail & Spam & Trash
… to get us out of trouble successfully on “Two Out of Three Aint Bad” occasions with our “digging up” work. Even the third one, though not finding what we wanted, was not “inept”, but could not find it because it wasn’t there, and at least gave us piece of mind we’d looked everywhere for it.
There is another point here. The online wooooorrrllldd seems to be shaping towards putting pressure on “email” as becoming (like “cassettes” and “DVDs” and the like …) heading towards obsolescence. And though yours truly will fight tooth and nail against this because …
- we have a degree of disrespect for a “business practice” wooooooooooorrrrrrllllddd based on 24×7 … pitting …
- what we see as 90+% of the time the undue pressure of SMS and Notifications versus Email as being a halfway house of a modicum of “get back to you” leeway
… it could be that Spam is part of (the reason for) that “obsolescence” push. As a programmer I know it can be tricky to set up email arrangements that don’t end up as Spam (in Gmail’s mind) and perhaps there is some point here (for Gmail’s Spam algorithms), but I’d rather an “education program” for “Email Savvy” here, rather than ditching this great (“greatest”, for us) communication tool called “email”.
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