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by jlbnjmn 2185 days ago
I've saved hundreds of hours by ignoring email and I highly recommend that option as well.

By keyboard shortcuts I'm referring to any software that one uses frequently, whether text editor, email, video editing, analytics, or something else.

If someone is not using the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, why not just start there? No migration necessary.

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I made the original post you’re replying to, and I agree. Web gmail + shortcuts is actually a great service. I think most people who are fairly satisfied with their email and just want to improve some would be best served starting there.

Personally I found superhuman just better enough that it’s worth it, but that’s because I wasn’t very good at managing email in a web interface, and I like the command line approach in Superhuman.

Interesting, if I give email another look I'll check it out.

Does it have a way to auto unsubscribe from and delete promotional content and other non essential stuff?

It puts them into other, and it has a faster unsubscribe interface, though it doesn’t already work. When you delete a message you can trash or mark done all from the same sender, so that is nice.

For that use case you might look into Sanebox. It runs on servers and I think has a good reputation for that kind of filtering.

Personally I haven’t had too much issue with promotional email though, so I would take my comments here with a grain of salt. I can’t really speak to it.

The other folder filtering is decent, but I imagine gmail is also good at that with promotions.

Sure, that works for many people, I am not disagreeing. I'm just saying why shouldn't people pay for more specialized tools? Sometimes Gmail and keyboard shortcuts aren't enough.