On 5/12/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For me the killer features of Gmail are:
1. Searching the entire mail bucket.
2. One page per thread. So stupid mailing list threads are *one* skimmable page.
- what sucks about 2 is that you can't distinguish between individual
messages in a thread that are read or not read. So you end up missing
whole threads because you read a few messages and skipped the rest,
and they all got marked read.
3. All the mail I've received in the last 3 years searchable wherever
I am, even on my phone. Incredibly useful.
4. Nice filtering/hiding of repeated strings (quoted paragraphs, signatures).
Ultimately it was 3 that made me abandon having a local mail client. I
could download all the mail onto my computer with a client, but there
just doesn't seem to be much point.
Steve