<div dir="ltr">If you set up labels (folders), and create filters to explicitly put specific emails (like commit messages) into specific folders, then everything seems to work much better.<div><br></div><div>90+ percent of my email doesn't end up in my inbox - it gets shuttled off to specific mailing list folders, or specific "online advertising" folders (for stuff I've actually signed up for, but don't necessarily want to read all the time).</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is assuming you use the web interface for GMail, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jon</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Casey Ransberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:casey.obrien.r@gmail.com" target="_blank">casey.obrien.r@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Your message evoked something in me, and I can't quite place it. It was like there was a terribly important word missing. At first I thought it was your name, Frank, but then I thought of all kinds of other words that start with F and are comprised of five letters and I don't know why.<div>
<br></div><div>Maybe it's just in my head.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Frank Shearar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.shearar@gmail.com" target="_blank">frank.shearar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On 24 July 2013 10:33, Casey Ransberger <<a href="mailto:casey.obrien.r@gmail.com" target="_blank">casey.obrien.r@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Gmail has gone off the deep end. All of the commit messages are being<br>
> automatically hidden behind a "Promotions" tab which I can't fathom wanting<br>
> in the first place. That's what the Spam folder is for, and commit messages<br>
> don't go there.<br>
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</div>You can restore your sanity (as I did) by removing all those rubbish tabs.<br>
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That doesn't address all the other FNORD problems with Gmail, of course.<br>
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