Simplify Gmail: Bringing the Simplicity of Google Inbox to Gmail

I notice a lot of people comment on what they miss from Inbox, and I am very surprised to see that no one has mentioned the reminders. For me, this was the killer feature and the one feature I will miss from Inbox. Being able to combine my email and reminders in the same convenient interface was simply fantastic.<p>I&#x27;ve now settled on ticktick for handling my reminders, after testing the Google tasks stuff, Todoist, Any.do, and more. It works well, but does not feel nowhere near as smooth as Inbox.

The two main things I miss from Inbox:<p>- The &quot;Trips&quot; feature... so easily you could see your flight details, your hotel details... vs. having to search your email box and having to go through emails upon emails<p>- The image previews! I do some artwork for my job, and it was SUCH a boon to see the images right there. You could actually click one of them, and preview all the images from an email conversation in a carousel fashion<p>Any ideas how I may be able to get this in Gmail somehow?

The biggest feature for me was bundles (which unfortunately this extension does not have). I could create a bundle for a subscription service or a listerv or just school updates from certain people and it wouldn&#x27;t clutter my inbox (had around 20 entries all the time even during the busiest seasons). Was incredibly good for sites like Monster when I was looking for jobs. It wouldn&#x27;t clutter my inbox but when I wanted to apply I could just go through the bundles. Genius design really. Wish it came to Gmail now that Inbox is dead.

As dumb as it sounds, the biggest thing I&#x27;ve missed is seeing the sender&#x27;s image in the main view, where the checkboxes are in gmail.<p>It was so, so, so much easier to instantly tell who sent the message with an image there. Even the gmail app has this feature, so I really don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s not in the gmail web UI.<p>Is there any way to add these back with a plugin like this?

The simplicity is just one of the strengths that made Inbox a superior product.<p>* Bundles: Made it easy to see all categories of emails from the inbox. Gmail offers categories, but you have to switch between them see each ones.<p>* Task-oriented: The concept of marking an email as Done was genius, and really helped to achieve zero-inbox. At least Archive kinda serve that purpose. You could also mark an entire bundle as Done from a single click if you wanted.<p>* Snooze: Inbox at one point offered time-based and location-based snoozes. Location-based snoozes were great for people travelling between offices without a well-defined schedule. It allowed me to bring back location-specific tasks once I got there, before they canned it. I also noticed it would even sometimes pick up relevant dates and times mentioned in an email and offer you to snooze up until that time without having to manually do it or choose a preconfigured time. Sadly Gmail only does time-based snoozes, and without the custom time feature.<p>* Chronological divisions: The emails were separated by days, so all emails that came today were grouped together, yesterday&#x27;s the same, and so on. It was easy to see what was from today.<p>* Trips: Having the AI automagically sort and bundle relevant incoming trips together made it easy to find your hotel reservation, plane tickets, etc, and it would even show up a dynamic card with your flight number, departure time, delays, etc. All the useful info was right there.<p>Inbox was Gmail 2.0 and it was great. Too bad Google decided to regress.

Am I the only one that would miss every single thing this extension hides? Actually I don&#x27;t use the right side bar, but I like to organize my email in labels and auto filter emails into them and clearly see how many I have.<p>I do like gmail as it is now. Actually, I also like the html version <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.google.com&#x2F;mail&#x2F;ca&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;h&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mail.google.com&#x2F;mail&#x2F;ca&#x2F;u&#x2F;0&#x2F;h&#x2F;</a> but because it has all the features of the normal gmail but it loads faster.

&gt; I was Gmail&#x27;s lead designer from 2008 to 2012 and co-founded Google Inbox.<p>Quite the perfect person for the job!

Bless you, Inbox started redirecting to Gmail this week, and I cannot stand the new Gmail look. Features aside, Inbox was a pleasure to read and look at.

I am genuinely impressed that you were gmail’s lead designer for _years_.<p>In the abstract, I understand how adoption and usability can turn on subtle and clever design decisions. The sum total of all these little things can definitely lead to a hockey stick uptake.<p>But I’m still lost on the OP “before” and “after” shots. Looks like the same info to me, just rearranged with different whitespace. Am I totally missing something fundamental?

This misses the whole point of inbox which is strange since this is from the guy who claims to have made inbox.<p>This feels just like a skin for gmail. And it&#x27;s gone backwards. My view now is narrow with big bars on either side so I see less of the content. I can&#x27;t mark an email as done.<p>Opening an email I don&#x27;t have the archive button anymore. I got reply and forward. Where is archive&#x2F;mark done feature that is for inbox?<p>I loved how inbox collected stuff into lists and let me mark done the whole list. Subscribe to a github project? Get all those emails as one list in inbox automatically. Where&#x2F;how to do that feature in gmail?<p>I don&#x27;t understand why ditch inbox, it&#x27;s lot&#x27;s better than gmail.

Still using Inbox. Will keep doing so until the servers actually go down. Somehow, it feels intimately sad to have to let go. But when the time comes, Firefox extension please!

My dream is a command line email client with Google Inbox&#x27;s todo list mentality, with Vim keybindings which I can keep in a Mosh session.<p>Is there anything at all like this? I&#x27;m still getting the hang of Mutt and setting it up properly, it feels a long way off.

One thing I really miss from Inbox is the ability to archive the currently highlighted message with the archive shortcut without having to select it first. Does anyone know a way to get this in gmail?

This looks amazing. Please add support for a dark mode!

It is now April 3rd and Inbox is still working for me, both on iOS and Web. Is it too early to hope they may have changed their mind?

Wanted to try this in Firefox, but the code is simple and easy to read enough that it was actually easier to convert it into a Grease&#x2F;Tamper&#x2F;Violentmonkey script than to package as a new addon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hastebin.com&#x2F;elonabobew.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hastebin.com&#x2F;elonabobew.js</a>

The CSS in this extension uses googles minified&#x2F;compiled class names.<p>Those will change every ~week as Google releases a new frontend version. Presumably the lead designer knows that.<p>How does he intend to keep this extension working?

You can also remove the top tabs (Social, Promotions, Updates) which are mostly advertising and have &quot;get back to our website&quot; emails.<p>Lot of forums have moved to Facebook now, so that tab is also sort of obsolete.

Is there any email client that supports bundles like Inbox did?

I&#x27;m not sure how much you can or would push to restore functionality via this added layer, but even this is a great boon.<p>For both this, and your recently deceased, thank you.

Does anyone use this Gmail GTD setup with `Multiple inboxes`?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klinger.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;71640845938&#x2F;dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmail-more" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;klinger.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;71640845938&#x2F;dont-drown-in-email-how-t...</a>

I&#x27;ve used this plugin for all of five minutes now, but I&#x27;m loving it so far. The search and compose buttons are a little bit out of the way compared to default. But that turns out to be a positive for me, as it got me to finally look up the keyboard shortcuts!

Oh, yes. I was searching for something like this last week. Thank you OP

What we need is a CSS extension for Gmail&#x27;s simplified version.

I just needed a way to mark a bunch of gruped emails as read on mobile app. Does Gmail allow this.

One of the hidden features of this extension is that it gives you a better view of the zoozimps theme.

This is great, thanks for sharing.