Hey, Google — how about some love for the Mac Android File Transfer app?

Transferring files between your Android and your Mac — there’s an app for that. And it sucks.

About a million years ago (2011 to be specific) Google changed the default USB transfer mode from mass storage to MTP in Android. By now, you’ll be hard pressed to find a phone that hasn’t switched over, and most of us are used to using MTP — that’s Media Transfer Protocol — to move files around while your phone is connected to your computer. Way back when Google first adopted MTP they also introduced an OS X app called Android File Transfer. MTP wasn’t supported natively on a Mac (it’s a standard, but based on some old Windows Media framework files) and they knew that people using Apple computers would need an easy way to transfer files. Then they stopped working on it.

There are good reasons to use MTP. It lets your phone and your computer access the storage at the same time, has safeguards in place so you can’t mess with necessary system files that might be stored in your user storage, and allows the people who make our phones to use a different (some say better) format for internal storage. Naturally, there was some resistance when Google first made the move, but by now most of us are used to it and don’t give it a second thought. Unless you use a Mac and AFT, that is.

Abandonware

If you download the very latest version of AFT from Google, you get an app that hasn’t been updated since October 2012. I get it — some utilities just work and don’t need to be updated. AFT is not one of them.

I’m sure the Android team has been working on MTP in Android versions since Honeycomb. Things that are designed to appear easy to the user are usually very complicated under the hood. It’s likely that some tweaks could be made to make the AFT app perform better or transfer faster or do something else that’s better. Three and a half years is a long time, and something has to be better. Maybe.

If nothing else, an overhaul to the UI is in order. How about the ability to plugin to Finder? Or at least a dialog box that has kept up with the rest of OS X. Looking like an Excel ’98 doc is kind of retro and cool, but I’d rather have a standard Apple dialog like everything else has.

Broken

I could live with the AFT app not being updated since October 2013 if not for one thing — Marshmallow doesn’t choose MTP by default when you plug a phone into a computer.

Google has the geeky way of transferring files sorted out pretty well. Install the SDK, turn on USB debugging, fire up your terminal and do everything you can do. I usually just do things this way, but I’m not a normal user. I like the command line, and the easy access it gives me to all sorts of things when I’m using a computer. Regular folks — the billion plus who are using Android — just want to plug a phone in and drag and drop like everything else does. With a Marshmallow phone and a Mac, that doesn’t happen.

When you plug your phone in, the AFT app on your Mac starts up, but your phone isn’t ready. All you get is an error in the middle of your desktop. Most of the time, you can change the USB mode to MTP on your phone, close the error dialog and AFT will start back up normally. But not every time. I’ve even had to reboot my computer to get it working a time or two. And I’m not alone. Our company Slack channel has more than a few instances of the words AFT and **** in the same sentence.

Yes, AFT is something. It sure is.

I’m not asking for much. Just fix the broken parts. We’ll all thank you for it.

UC Berkeley warns 80,000 people over potential data theft

The University of California, Berkeley is warning 80,000 people — including current and former students, faculty and vendors — that hackers have accessed a computer system that stored their Social Security and banking information. The university says it has not found evidence hackers “accessed, acquired or used any personal information.” Regardless, the school is warning people to keep an eye on their credit and is also offering free credit protection services for those impacted.

“The security and privacy of the personal information provided to the university is of great importance to us,” UC Berkeley CISO Paul Rivers said in a statement. “We regret that this occurred and have taken additional measures to better safeguard that information.”

Source: Yahoo! News

Sprint is reportedly bringing back two-year service plans

According to a report from FierceWireless, Sprint Wireless is reversing course and is once again offering two-year service contracts to its customers. The company stopped offering contracts just this January following similar moves by other tier-1 carriers over the last few years. However, as of Friday, the Sprint website now offers customers four options in total: leasing a handset, buying it outright, paying for it in installments or once again signing a 2-year deal.

“We listened to our customers and are giving them more choices to get their new device,” Sprint spokeswoman Michelle Leff Mermelstein told FierceWireless. “Sprint is the only carrier to offer the most choices to obtain a new device — lease, installment bill, two-year contract or pay full retail price.” The company’s rivals at AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have all largely eliminated their 2-year contract offerings.

Source: FierceWireless

How to Downgrade From an iOS Beta

If you’ve installed an iOS beta either through Apple’s developer program or the public beta testing website, you may find yourself wanting to downgrade if you’ve run into issues. iOS beta software can be notoriously buggy, especially during the first few betas of a major update.

Apps often don’t work, devices crash, battery life is poor, and entire features can be rendered non-functional. In some cases, these problems are a big enough deal that users will want to downgrade back to the more stable release version of iOS.

It’s possible to restore your iPhone or iPad to the release version of iOS, but you’re going to need an archived iTunes backup to restore your iPhone or iPad to its pre-beta state, so hopefully you have one on hand (this is the first step in any beta installation).

If not, downgrading will require wiping your device, so you’ll need to start from scratch with apps, accounts, and preferences. Here are the steps to downgrade:

Turn off Find My iPhone in the iCloud section of the Settings app.
Turn off the iPhone or the iPad.
Hold down the Home button while plugging the device into a PC or Mac running iTunes.
Continue to hold down the Home button until the iTunes logo pops up on the device display. This is called recovery mode.
If you don’t see the iTunes logo, entering recovery mode did not work. Repeat steps 2 to 4.
When recovery mode is successful, an iTunes popup will show up on your Mac or PC. Click on “Restore.” A warning will pop up letting you know the device will be erased.
Click on “Restore and Update” to bring up the iPhone Software Update menu, which will display details about the current publicly available version of iOS. Click “Next” and then “Agree” to agree to the terms and conditions and start the restoration process.
iTunes will download the current version of iOS and the restore will begin.
Restoring this way results in a clean installation of the current release version of iOS. All apps and data will be erased, which is why you want an archived iTunes backup to restore all of your information. It will take a several minutes for the recovery process to complete, but once it’s done, the next step is to restore from a backup.

Choose “Restore Backup” in iTunes.
Select the archived backup.
Click on “Restore” to confirm that you want to begin the backup restoration process.
When the install is complete, your iOS device will be restored to the condition that it was in prior to the beta. If you do not have an archived backup to work with, your device will need to be set up from scratch.

This how to is part of our iOS beta installation series. To see the rest of the steps involved with upgrading to a beta, make sure to check out our how tos on creating an archived iTunes backup and the steps to download the beta.
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Ray Super Remote review – CNET

The Good The Ray Super Remote has a phone-like touchscreen that puts other dedicated remotes to shame. It offers simple setup without having to use a separate app or device. You can use it to find shows to watch.

The Bad The Ray is expensive and not as capable as some cheaper Logitech Harmony remotes. It depends on line-of-sight, making it less reliable than hub-based remotes. Its lack of buttons makes it more difficult to use by feel.

The Bottom Line A phone-like screen, simple interface and TV show suggestions aren’t enough to overcome the competition for Ray’s expensive remote.

If the 800-pound gorilla of universal remotes is the Logitech Harmony, the Ray Super Remote is a monkey dressed in an astronaut’s suit. It looks way cooler, and seems smarter, but in a head-to-head contest the monkey gets crushed.

At $250 US, the Ray is twice the price of my favorite Harmony remote, the Home Control. The Ray’s main draw is a big touchscreen, which does provide some advantages over a button-based clicker. But the screenless Home Control’s buttons are easier to use, especially by feel, and its two-piece design — it includes a hub base station that deftly handles all of the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and infrared (IR) control duties and translations — trounces the Ray’s traditional point-and-pray IR emitters.

And if you really want a touchscreen, you can control the Harmony using an app on your phone, shell out $300-plus for the top-end Harmony Elite, or just use your phone as a remote. The latter option may seem a-Peel-ing, especially since some Android phones can act as remotes using free apps, and iPhones can work with relatively cheap devices like $50 Pronto, but the convenience of a dedicated clicker is worth the investment in my book.

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What advantages giveth the Ray, you ask? In addition to behaving like a friendlier Harmony — easing the process of turning on your devices, switching inputs, and obviating your other remote controls — it also helps you find something to watch on TV. You can browse what’s on by genre, check the Ray’s suggestions, or keyword search for shows right from the remote. Setup is also simplified, and it’s accomplished entirely on the remote’s screen. There’s no separate phone app or PC required.

Those are all good things, but still not worth the high price. Harmony’s remotes are simple enough for my four-year-old to use, they almost never fail because of the hub-based control, and the TV browsing features won’t be of much use to people satisfied with their cable service’s program guides. And I really don’t trust my munchkins not to break the heavy, chunky Ray eventually, despite it being clad front and back in Gorilla Glass (that’s your cue, OtterBox).

The Ray remote offers simplicity and smartphone-like modernity in its attempt to challenge the Harmonys, but in most important ways it’s second banana, at best.

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Sleek hardware, friendly menus

There’s no escaping it: the Ray remote looks like your old phone. It’s thicker and has a smaller screen than most current phones, and it feels heavier in the hand. Compared to button-based remotes like the Harmony, however, it seems much more futuristic, mainly because of its superior screen.

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High-end Harmony remotes like the aforementioned $350 Harmony Elite have screens but, let’s face it, they suck compared to the Ray. Smaller, lower resolution and saddled with chunky graphics, they seem like throwbacks to a bygone day when text had rough edges and logos all the sharpness of stuffed animals. The graphics and icons delivered on the Ray’s screen are sharp, bright and modern, worthy of any phone operating system.

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The Ray’s home screen is pure simplicity: a vertical column of icons for power, DVR and other devices you want to add, sprinkled among selections for Search, Settings, Best of TV, Sports and other categories. You can power up (or down) devices right from the home screen, as well as see the time and weather.

Access to individual devices is just a tap away, most major buttons are replicated as you’d expect, and you can add custom buttons for commands that aren’t included by default. I found I had to add the all-important “skip” command from my TiVo, for example, to augment rewind and fast-forward. I do wish the thing had haptic feedback, and that it “woke up” when you picked it up (both features of the Elite), but those are quibbles.

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Cradle return discipline

More than a quibble is the fact that, like any screen-based device, the Ray needs to be recharged frequently. The company recommends you park it in the included cradle when not in use. The cradle takes up more room than I’d like but looks very slick, and you’ll definitely need to learn to replace the clicker there, and train your family to do so, when it’s not in use.

If not, you could find yourself without the ability to control your stuff. In my testing, the battery lasted about three days before needing a recharge.

By comparison, the battery in the screenless Logitech Home Control remote can last more than a year (!) without needing to be replaced.

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Buttons beat screens for easy control

The only physical buttons on the Ray are along the side: power (to turn on the remote itself), mute and volume. If you hold it in your right hand, they’re an easy thumb stretch away.

For every other kind of control you’ll be looking down at the remote, then back up at the TV, then down at the remote, quite a bit. Depending on how many commands you normally issue, this can be more or less tedious, but the simple fact is that with a well-designed button-centric clicker like Harmony’s, you can keep your eyes on the screen while you drive around your device’s on-screen menus mainly by feel.

Ray, to its credit, tries to replicate the by-feel process with its “Navigate” tab, which calls up a mostly blank swath of screen that you can swipe around and tap to select. Unfortunately the process isn’t nearly as responsive as using the buttons on a standard four-way keypad control; swipes take longer than clicking a button, and the screen is “stickier” than something like the wonderfully responsive touchpad on the Apple TV remote.

Even the volume buttons on the Ray weren’t as responsive as on the Harmony. In the end, using it to get to what I wanted felt a step or two slower.

Garageio review – CNET

The Good Garageio works well and is more customizable than competitors, integrating with IFTTT and Amazon Echo.

The Bad Integration with Amazon Echo isn’t intuitive enough, the app is simplistic, and the price feels just a little steep.

The Bottom Line If you want integration, Garageio is one of the best retrofit controllers on the market. It’s just a little pricey at this point, and the Echo integration needs sharpening.

When you hear the phrase “garage door opener,” you probably think of the little black-and-gray remote clipped to the sun visor in your car — that thing that controls your garage door opener. But over the last few years, major developers like Chamberlain, and smaller ones like Garageio in Columbus, Ohio, have begun to market app-connected garage door openers.

Garageio’s self-named device is a relatively simple black box that hardwires into your current garage door opener. From there it integrates with platforms like Amazon Echo and IFTTT — the app that builds triggers between normally unconnected apps and devices. Despite its clever integrations, Garageio still doesn’t feel quite slick enough to pull off its $199 base price (not to mention an extra $10 for each additional garage door, up to three).

For anyone ready to get their garage into the smart-home mix, Garageio is a pretty solid buy. But until its app gets a little deeper and its integration smooths out, this product isn’t ready for everyone.

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Installing Garageio is a little more involved than I’d prefer (more on that later), but once the system is up and running, app connection is simple. In fact, it’s a little too simple. When you open the app, the interface is an orange garage door that you swipe up to open or swipe down to close. It works, but for $200 I’d like to see an app with more to offer. Luckily Garageio introduces new features elsewhere.

Integrations with Amazon Echo and IFTTT are a breeze to set up, and they’re the main distinction Garageio can claim from competitors like the Chamberlain MyQ. With Garageio, you can control your garage doors with a voice command, or trigger them to open via geolocation through the IFTTT app.

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Disappointingly, these two integrations aren’t equally slick. IFTTT integration is mostly open to your imagination, but Amazon Echo’s commands are basic and sometimes frustrating to use. Since Echo’s Garageio skill isn’t native, you can’t just ask Alexa to open your garage. You have to say things like, “Alexa, tell Garageio to open my small garage door,” or “Alexa, ask Garageio if my garage doors are open.” After a while, it felt like I was having a middle school feud with Garageio, and Echo was just caught in the crossfire.

IFTTT, on the other hand, works wonders. In fact, without IFTTT, I would like Garageio much less than I do. But automating your garage door with geofencing or other triggers might create some safety questions. Chamberlain, Garageio’s biggest competitor, actually refuses to work with triggering platforms like IFTTT so users don’t accidentally open their garage doors while they’re away.

LG DLEX 5000 Dryer review – CNET

The Good The stylishly designed LG DLEX 5000 efficiently dries and steams clothes with speed. The dryer also has a built-in Wi-Fi radio to link to phones and tablets through a companion mobile app.

The Bad The LG DLEX 5000’s mobile application is buggy and has a confusing and cluttered layout. It’s hard to close the dryer door with force.

The Bottom Line Though it has a few shortcomings namely a confusing app and tricky door, the LG DLEX dryer’s beautiful design, fast performance and loads of features make this appliance easy to recommend.

I never thought I’d be drawn to a clothes dryer the same way I’m pulled toward a hot new smartphone. That was before I laid hands on the $1,500 LG DLEX 5000. An elegant machine that’s both a swift performer and easy to operate, the all-electrical DLEX 5000 is stuffed with handy extras. These include a litany of special drying cycles, steam modes, plus a Wi-Fi radio and companion mobile app so you can command the appliance via phone or tablet.

Of course the dryer isn’t perfect. For instance compared with other smart home appliance contenders, LG’s Smart Laundry app is a confusing maze of functions, options, and services, many of which are vaguely labeled and sometimes redundant. Likewise, the dryer’s 7.4-cubic-foot capacity is less than you’d expect from an appliance this pricey. That said, if you can live with LG’s messy mobile controls, the DLEX 5000 boasts better performance, style, and abilities than GE’s competing smart dryer, the $1,200 GTD86ESPJMC.

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Constructed from painted steel, chrome and plastic, the DLEX 5000 hides its stainless-steel drum behind a darkly tinted glass door. This curved door sits almost completely flush against the dryer’s front face and lacks an obvious handle, enhancing its sleek appearance. Don’t try to slam the door shut though. Oddly, the more force behind your arm swing the more likely the door will bounce back at you.

The LG DLEX 5000 has high-tech good looks.

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Perhaps that’s why the dryer’s physical footprint (38.8 by 27 by 32.8 inches) feels much less imposing than the GE GTD86ESPJMC (44.5 by 28 by 31.9 inches) even though it’s roughly the same size. Another difference between the two units is the LG’s control panel which is placed front and center, not mounted along the back edge where it’s harder to reach.

The panel occupies a 4-inch tall strip running along the top of the dryer door. Here you’ll find large circular keys for power and start/pause, both capacitive buttons which engage with a mere feather-light touch. Set in between this is the biggest physical control, a large knob for selecting your prefered dryer cycle. The knob rotates clockwise and counterclockwise, softly settling in place with a gentle bump at each cycle position. White LED lights highlight the current cycle you’ve chosen.

Turn a large knob to choose your cycle.

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To the right of the knob is a rectangular bank housing additional buttons to operate secondary settings. These touch-sensitive controls, and small LED display they surround, are all bright and easy to read whether viewing directly in front or from the side. I also appreciate that, like its LG Twin Wash laundry sibling, you can set the DLEX 5000 on a pedestal though in this case it’s a Pedestal Storage Drawer accessory ($280) not a specialized washing chamber.

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Features

The LG DLEX 5000 dryer is replete with special cycles, modes, and settings. Specifically there are 14 dryer programs designed to handle a wide range of fabric and garment types. LG also lists 13 separate options too including “Damp Dry Signal,” “Wrinkle Care,” and “Energy Saver” just to name a few. Keep in mind these choices don’t factor into settings for both temperature and target dryness levels, both of which you can tweak manually.

I suspect that most people (like myself) will most often stick to the “Normal” cycle which is designed for a mix of clothes styles. It relies on the LG DLEX 5000’s moisture sensors to automatically shut the machine down at the appropriate time.

Like GE’s GTD86ESPJMC the DLEX 5000 has the ability to hit items with steam in the hope either removing wrinkles or germs. These modes are called “Steam Fresh” and “Steam Sanitary” respectively. While I can’t speak to how sanitized my test clothing became, I did notice that compared with the GE dryer’s equivalent function, LG Steam Fresh seemed more aggressive. It audibly piped multiple bursts of steam into the drum as opposed to the single spray I observed using the GTD86ESPJMC dryer. And regardless of whether I ran one or multiple items through “Steam Fresh” the LG machine always took less time (10 minutes to the GE’s 16 to 17 minutes).

Loads and loads of smart functions

No flagship laundry product would be complete without a way to connect to a dedicated mobile app, and the LG DLEX 5000 is no exception. Similar to the GE Laundry application, the DLEX 5000 has a Wi-Fi radio tucked away inside its chassis. With it the machine can link to the LG Smart Laundry app (iOS and Android) where you’ll be able to check dryer status and see how much time remains in a running cycle.

How to blur objects in YouTube videos – CNET

YouTube has offered the ability to blur faces of people in your uploaded videos since 2012. While the face blur tool worked relatively well, it couldn’t be applied to any other objects. Now there’s a secondary blur tool you can apply to any object, even moving ones.

Google’s announcement of the blur tool mentioned that it will be a “… simple way to blur things like people, contact information, or financial data without having to remove and re-upload your content.” Of course, it’s not limited to these uses. Want to try it out? Here’s how:

Note: The new blur tool is only available on the desktop version of YouTube at this time.

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Step 1: Open the Video manager on YouTube and click the Edit button under the video you’re going to use the blur tool on.

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Steps 2 and 3.

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Step 2: Head to the Enhancements tab along the top, then click the Blurring effects tab on the right-hand side of the page.

Step 3: Click the Edit button next to Custom blurring. Your video will load in a new pop-up window.

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Step 4: To create a blurred area, click and drag to create a blurred box. You can create multiple blurred boxes, drag them around, and resize them.

Step 5: Once you’re finished, click Done. You’ll be offered three saving options on the right-hand side: Revert to original, Save as new video, or Save (overwrite).

Tip: Google noted on its blog that saving your content as a new video will allow you to delete the original content from YouTube, leaving only the blurred version.

Now you blur sensitive information, embarrassing objects, or strangers that walk in front of your camera with just a few clicks.

Tap to preview links in Safari for Mac OS X – CNET

When browsing about the Web, I often open links I come across in new tabs in the background, which can leave me with too many open tabs to keep track of after an embarrassingly short time. I am easily distracted but also gamely attempt to finish what I’m reading before jumping to the next thing. With Safari and a trackpad setting enabled on my Mac, I can quickly preview links without leaving the page I’m currently on or opening yet another tab.

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To enable this preview ability, go to System Preferences > Trackpad. Click on the Point & Click tab at the top if you aren’t there already, and then check the box for Look up & data detectors.

With this setting checked, a three-finger tap on a link will open a small window to let you preview the webpage behind the link. On this preview window, you can scroll to read the entire page, if you want to do more than just a quick preview. You can click in the preview window to open the page in a new Safari tab, or you can click outside of the window to close the preview window.

You will need a multitouch trackpad to perform this maneuver, but you do not need a newer Force Click trackpad.

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This trackpad setting also lets you three-finger tap on a plain-text words to look up their dictionary definition. In Chrome, a triple-tap looks up the definition of words for both plain text and hyperlinked text — it does not preview links. As for Firefox, its does not support this trackpad setting. I tested all Chrome, Firefox and Safari on an older MacBook Pro running OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

(Via OS X Daily)

Google Inbox — one year later

Google’s new way to think about email took a while to fully hook me, but now there’s no other way to email for me.

When Inbox was first announced, I quickly jumped to grab an invite to the service. Gmail had been my default email client for years now, and I didn’t have any problems with how it worked, but I loved the ideas behind Inbox. The notion that my email account could be more than just a communication and advertising dumpster, but also a task list and a functional goal system, was more than a little appealing.

In the early days I switched back and forth between Gmail and Inbox, not quite ready to fully hand my email over to this new system, but just about a year ago I finally made the switch to full time Inbox use and haven’t looked back.

Every once in a while you’ll see someone publish a screed about how emails are basically the worst thing they have to do every day. It’s the lowest form of communication for those of us connected to everything all the time, and largely that’s because it’s a time suck. You have to triage your email box every day, sifting through promotional emails and reminder emails and shipment tracking emails. You know, the things you’d love to mark as spam but can’t because it’s either vaguely work related or you might need to track it down later. We don’t so much mind sending email when we have to, but the idea of dealing with the inbox is a mostly pointless chore. You’ve either trained yourself to triage it quickly, or your inbox is a dumpster and you only bother with new message and the search function.

On average I snooze 2-3 emails a week, and the number of emails I interact with has increased dramatically as a result.

I was happily in the latter group before Inbox. As email came in, I’d check the notification and move on. No folders, no tags, just a dumping ground for everything I thought I might one day maybe care about. Google’s threaded conversations meant I could quickly find a conversation when I needed it, and that was all that really mattered to me. Friends who relied on email as this tidy thing they kept organized would look in horror as I thumbed through in search of something. It was a mess, but it was a necessary evil and I gave it as little thought as I could afford.

Inbox introduced a new way to use email for me, and the first step was making it incredibly easy to sort through all the crap. For starters, search results for a ton of things often ends in better card-styled results. There’s a bundle of 30 promotion emails organized in this bundle, and while one of them might have a coupon for Papa John’s pizza you might want to use this weekend I know I can search for it later if I want. Tap a button, sweep all of those messages into Archive, and be done with it. If I see something that I know will be important later, but want it to pop up as a reminder, I snooze the message. On average I snooze 2-3 emails a week, and the number of emails I interact with has increased dramatically as a result. I’m way less likely to forget about those messages, and while I rarely use anything other than the snooze to a certain date feature, the snooze by location feature is amazing when travelling for work.

The real MVP for me in Inbox is pinning. I pin everything I think might be important that day, and snooze or sweep everything else. The last thing I do on my phone each night is either deal with the remaining pins or snooze those messages if I know I’m going to deal with them tomorrow. At the end of every work week, I clear out the remaining pins in the same way I deal with a ToDo list. I don’t actively hunt for Inbox Zero, but it is often the result of my current workflow as I head into the weekend.

Nothing Inbox does is particularly special or new, but because I was able to make it a part of my workflow I now have a much better relationship with my personal email. I’ve considered trying to migrate other accounts, particularly my work account, to Inbox as well. It’s a system that I don’t really have to think about in order to enjoy it, and that to me is the biggest part of the experience. I don’t have to stop and think about how to address these emails, but I’m still able to actively manage my inbox. I’m not receiving more or less email, but I think about it less and am somehow accomplishing more through it.

There aren’t many software changes in my day to day that have had such a meaningful impact, and in many ways I am reminded of when I first moved to Gmail in the first place. It feels like the software handling my email is doing a lot of the work for me, and that is incredibly valuable to someone like me.