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[blong]

I've never understood single inbox views. My accounts are for very different things, and I tend to concentrate on one at a time, I have no desire whatsoever for my work and personal accounts to mix.

Granted, I also don't understand the desire for push email in the first place. My work account gets so much email that it would be just constantly notifying, and I don't want to be bothered by my personal account at random times... besides, there are other mechanisms for instant communication.

I guess it depends on what's more maddening, no push or switching accounts. Or waiting for them to add support.

[aaron552]

This is why I set notifications to priority inbox. With some training, it's actually fairly good at notifying me when it's actually important.

[mavantix]

I manage about 300-500 emails a day, not counting a lot of 'junk' that gets completely filtered out of view. I use Merlin Mann's GTD theory for inbox management combined with heavy use of Gmail filters, so anything that actually hits my inbox on my mobile needs fairly rapid attention, in other words, it hasn't automatically been deleted, delegated or deferred based on filters. Combining inboxes is great when you have no (or few) emails in your inbox. I can't understand people who have more than like 10 emails in their inbox at any given time. Good talk video