Dear Google Inbox:

I wanted to hate you. I really did.

At first I thought: “Oh, you think you’re so great with your fancy Material Design and snobby invitation-only access. But I know your type. You’re really out to kill my beloved email, and take away control from me and give it to some faceless algorithm that never sleeps.”

Look, I know plain-vanilla email is un-glamorous and ugly. But I’ve spent 20 years figuring out how to use it productively. Heck, within Gmail alone, which I’ve used now for seven years, I’ve built up hundreds of filters and spent hundreds of hours to manage and optimize and tweak my email system to perfection.

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