An observation: I switched to mainly reading my email in a text client (vi-cmdg, which is a fork of cmdg, a Gmail client that uses the API rather than IMAP - the fork has vim keybindings).
I’m finding I can process email quicker and it’s less stressful than using say Apple Mail, which in turn is always less stressful than the Gmail web client.
I think it might be because:
- black and white and effectively dark mode due to my terminal
- much less furniture on the screen
- not seeing images in the emails (there’s a shortcut to render stuff with a roughly HTML-equivalent line wrap)
- its slightly more work to click links (keyboard shortcut which adds numbers next to each link for you to press) but that doesn’t seem to irritate me too much
- you get a simple list of attachments
- you can write replies in Vim, which I quite like
I’m finding I can process email quicker and it’s less stressful than using say Apple Mail, which in turn is always less stressful than the Gmail web client.
I think it might be because: - black and white and effectively dark mode due to my terminal - much less furniture on the screen - not seeing images in the emails (there’s a shortcut to render stuff with a roughly HTML-equivalent line wrap) - its slightly more work to click links (keyboard shortcut which adds numbers next to each link for you to press) but that doesn’t seem to irritate me too much - you get a simple list of attachments - you can write replies in Vim, which I quite like
Interested to hear if anyone else is doing this…