Mailplane Review

by Editweapon on May 24, 2010

I recently switch Jigsaw Health from PC + Exchange to Mac + Google Apps.  It was easy.  And it’s been awesome!  It’s no shock that no one is missing their clunky 5 year old Dell desktops.

But perhaps more of a surprise is how swiftly everyone has taken to the Gmail interface after using Outlook all day every day for 5+ years (and more)!

Perhaps a major reason for the smooth transition has been our use of the MailPlane Email App for Gmail.  It’s like a container app for Gmail.

To quote Mailplane,”The most productive way to use Gmail on your Mac” and “Brings Gmail to your Mac desktop.”

There are numerous features about MailPlane that I totally love.  But this screenshot pretty much sums up the basis of my MailPlane crush.  While clicking the Send button, this popped up:

Mailplane

Anticipation of users screwing up.  That’s a brilliant focus on interaction design.

Watch a 2 minute demo of MailPlane.

MailPlane offers a 30 day, fully functional demo.  So if you’re using Mac + Gmail, give it a test drive!

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

Turn on keyboard shorcuts in Gmail and use them.  I’m a keyboard JUNKY, and I’m getting super quick at working through my inbox.

Also, there are several AWESOME Gmail Labs features that I turn on for everyone, most notably “Send & Archive” button and default to “Reply To All”.

Shoutout to Justin Youens for recommending MailPlane in the first place.  :)

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Chuck Reynolds May 24, 2010 at 4:29 pm

Hey grats on getting into Google Apps after all these years :)

I’ve been on the MailPlane demo and I’m not sure if I’m liking the ‘out of browser’ thing… I don’t use my other accounts that often, the ones I do are filtered into my main one anyways…
Not sure if I’m totally sold yet, but I’ll keep testing… I like my mail in a tab in Chrome – makes it easier to switch around imo.

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