Forgot the Attachments? Never Again

One of the (many) ways I’ve shot myself in the foot before now has been quoting attachments in emails without actually attaching the files.

I’m sure everybody has the same experience.

No More!  I just did the very same thing in Gmail and up popped the Gmail Angel to question did I mean to send it without the files Google software is pretty much like the Curate’s Egg – good and bad in parts – and that certainly applies to Gmail.  I just hate the way it does Conversations, hiding stuff in the process.  But this little improvement is a real winner in my book.

Last week I spent quite a lot of time without a regular Internet connection, which should have been OK because of Gmail Offline, but wasn’t because Gears isn’t compatible with the latest release of Firefox.

Honestly these guys couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery.

So my next answer was try using Apple Mail.  Attempts to do that proved even more frustrating.

But of course I shouldn’t be surprised.  The only way software developers can make functional, multiple instance software is to build in a whole load of complexity, and cost.

With today’s single instance, run it in the cloud, software it can be functional, simple, cheap and evolutionary.  Not feature rich, expensive, stuck in the 90’s.

Are you still using Outlook or Apple Mail?  If so you might want to give Gmail a serious trial.

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