I love it in principle. I actually dove in and purchased it since I've wanted for so long an email client built around people.
I have a few criticism after actually using it (admittedly for only a few minutes here):
* The lack of an "Inbox" is disconcerting. It actually really is important to me to just see a list of emails in my inbox, most recent on top, with unread messages marked as such.
* People centric is great, but conversation centric is equally important. Apple Mail and Gmail get high marks on organizing emails by conversation thread, but both I found lacking in their organization by person. This app has the opposite problem: It's great for viewing emails by person, but that's like the ONLY feature. I really strongly dislike how it munges together different conversation threads under a person, which at the same time excludes other emails from other people that were part of that thread.
Maybe they'll add these features later but for now I'll probably slink back to Apple Mail and maybe keep an eye on it.
> I really strongly dislike how it munges together different conversation threads under a person, which at the same time excludes other emails from other people that were part of that thread.
That's what the thread view is for. Simply click the small icon next to a message's subject (the one with the number of emails in a thread) and you'll all of the referenced messages.
It doesn't quite solve the whole problem for me, which is that:
* I like to scan conversation threads (of all conversations I'm having presently, not just those involving a single person) -- it's one of the primary ways I look at my mail.
* I find having all of the messages munged together from different conversations I'm involved in with a person to be disconcerting ESPECIALLY since those messages lack the context from other people involved in the context. It's visual cacophony to me. Contrast this with Apple Mail VIPs: When I click on a VIP, I see all of the conversations I'm involved in with that person, not the individual messages.
That's just me and my brain. I could of course just be an anomaly.
I have a few criticism after actually using it (admittedly for only a few minutes here):
* The lack of an "Inbox" is disconcerting. It actually really is important to me to just see a list of emails in my inbox, most recent on top, with unread messages marked as such.
* People centric is great, but conversation centric is equally important. Apple Mail and Gmail get high marks on organizing emails by conversation thread, but both I found lacking in their organization by person. This app has the opposite problem: It's great for viewing emails by person, but that's like the ONLY feature. I really strongly dislike how it munges together different conversation threads under a person, which at the same time excludes other emails from other people that were part of that thread.
Maybe they'll add these features later but for now I'll probably slink back to Apple Mail and maybe keep an eye on it.
YMMV