There’s a new button in the top right which controls the layout of the new ‘Preview Pane’. (I also enabled the ‘Mark as Read Button’ as I like that added feature but it’s not vital.) Scroll to the bottom of the list and hit the button and Gmail will reload itself and something magic will have happened! In the Labs it’s time to enable something special! Find the ‘Preview Pane’ and enable it. Now we’re ready to do some magic! Go to the Cog again and this time we’re going into the ‘Settings’ and once in there go to the ‘Labs’ (where some extra features can be turned on). By default it’s on ‘Comfortable’ but I find that a bit wide. Gmail comes with three spacing options (or ‘Display density’) for the items in the side menu and a few other bits and bobs. In there un-check ALL the boxes you can and click the button. Click the Settings ‘Cog’ (we’ll be doing that a few times!) and go to ‘Configure inbox’. Some people would say it’s already quite minimal, but we can do much better! To start I want to get rid of the ‘Inbox Tabs’ (which I’ve never actually found useful!). Here’s a pretty much out of the box Gmail layout (with one email!). Recently playing around with the settings in the Gmail web interface, I found something that’s been a game changer and I’m now back in MailPlane, but with a very minimal and left column layout – in Gmail! Here’s how I did it… AirMail 2 is VERY good but, IMHO, the search isn’t great and with multiple accounts (I run six accounts!) it can take a long time to open and sync… (I’ve also recently tried Polymail and it seems nice, but I need my multiple accounts to stay separate, I can’t be doing with joint/combined folders for Sent, Draft, etc.) For many years I used MailPlane (where multiple Gmail accounts can be run inside one app) and more recently I’ve used AirMail.īoth are strong options, but I found the ‘normal’ Gmail interface too busy and really prefer a ‘left column’ layout. Last month we published the 2016 edition of ‘ Best Email Client for You‘ and I’ve tried lots of the options on there. I use email a lot and over the years I’ve tried many an email client (from Eudora back in the day through to AirMail and the very new Polymail).
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