[Bjartr]

> same text message appears in my GVoice app, my Gmail app, and as a text message in Messaging.

The "official" way to deal with this is to go to the Google Voice site and turn of emailing yourself every text. Then install the Hangouts app and enable SMS through Hangouts. Then disable notifications in the Google Voice and Messaging apps.

Result: On phone Hangouts handles texts + voicemail + Google chat, and on desktop GMail (or the Hangouts extension for Chrome) handles them.

At least, that's my understanding of what Google's intended best practice is.

[sliverstorm]

You don't need Google Voice at all anymore (that I am aware of) and Messaging just goes to sleep when you make Hangouts your SMS app.

GV integration is not the most seamless perfect experience ever (for example, incoming IP calls go straight to voicemail when I'm on corporate WiFi) but I'm fairly pleased with it.