"Real-time email notifications considered harmful"<p>Seriously, if your daily activities require actual thought, turn all that shit off. If you need to know when a critical email shows up from time to time or from specific people, find a tool that does that or wire one together yourself with IFTTT and a push notification service. Your flow will thank you.
I've been using (G)Mail Notifir[1] for a while, and got the current version for free when it first came out. If I hadn't, I'd pay the $3, FWIW.<p>[1]: It was originally called Gmail Notifir.
I'm using MailTab Pro, which does notifications as well as presenting a mobile web view of the gmail website. I actually end up doing a lot of my email writing and processing directly from the web view because it's so much faster than the full Gmail site.
I just use this in Chrome. <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-mail-checker/mihcahmgecmbnbcchbopgniflfhgnkff/details" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-mail-checke...</a>
We built Chime to keep us from having copious pinned tabs. Let me know if any of you find it useful. <a href="http://chimeapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://chimeapp.com</a>