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Mailplane

19·Nov·07

A long-time happy user of Mail for my email reading needs, I resisted the lure of Gmail for a good while, even after several early invites and abandoned trials.

I preferred the slickness of working in a desktop app, plus relied pretty heavily on 3rd party add-ons for Mail such as MailTags and MailActOn.

I also liked the tight system integration with my Mac Address Book, plus the convenience of being able to drop attachments right on the Mail icon or into the body of the message itself.

It’s only more recently I’ve actually begun to warm to Gmail, and now it’s replaced Mail as my primary email client. One reason is obviously the convenience of accessing my mail from anywhere, but another is the threaded conversation – surprisingly for some maybe, this took me a long time to get used to, but now I struggle with any other way.

But I do still miss the luxury of having a separate app, which is why I was delighted to discover Mailplane, a desktop app for Gmail. I actually like having a separate app for mail, rather than having mail open in a tab I frequently forget about or shut down. More importantly, Mailplane allows you to drag and drop attachments onto its icon or into the body of your email messages.

Hardly a necessity, but a nice addition to the dock.

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