There is a free 30-day fully functional trial period. Like most good things, Mailplane is not free. (Offline Gmail is not yet fully implemented, but it is in the current Beta release.) Hopefully this will be addressed in a new version. Instead, you click on the Growl notifications to reveal the downloaded file in Finder.
The only downside to Mailplane I’ve identified so far is that downloaded attachments are not automatically opened. Ctrl-K works in Firefox, but Ctrl-Y does not. That is, Ctrl-K cuts the current line (or multiple lines) and copies the text block to the clipboard and Ctrl-Y pastes it back, just like in emacs and other text editors. Growl notifications, including a Do Not Disturb modeĪlso, one ubergeek thing that I love about Mailplane: Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y work as expected by *nix users.Permanent links to messages via mailplane:// URLs.
Hide Spam counter, hide invitation box, highlight row in overview.Keyboard shortcuts for navigation and applying labels.Mailplane has pretty much all the features we’ve come to know and love with the Better Gmail extension: Mailplane also gives Gmail the respect it deserves with a dedicated dock icon. Many times, I want to write a short note without being tempted to take a quick look at that Facebook tab or indulge in some other surfing distraction. The feature that won me over is the ability to read and write emails without opening Firefox. Everything works as it normally does in the web browser except smoother and faster. Instead of using various bug-prone extensions ( Better Gmail) and notifiers ( Google Notifier) to do all the things an email app should do, Mailplane does it all. Mailplane is basically a web browser optimized just for Gmail. I’ve recently abondened reading my Gmail in Firefox and started using a nifty little app called Mailplane. (Another would be if you spend a lot of time without internet access, but who doesn’t have internet everywhere anymore?) But this post is not about switching to Gmail, it’s about a new way to read Gmail if you already use it. The one reason Gmail might not be for you is if you don’t like threaded messages. You can backup, read messages offline, access multiple accounts, setup sophisticated filters, use keyboard shortcuts and more. As far as I can tell, there are no reasons left not to switch entirely to Gmail for all your email needs. Probably will switch again witin a couple of months but for the time being Mailplane is my Gmail client of choise.I decided to make my first post about something new and fresh and not already listed on my Tips and Tricks website.įirst off, I’m a huge fan of Gmail. But it doesn’t crach or hang which wins out in my book. Neither is the downloads of attachements UI. The preview functionality of images, pdf’s and such things is not as good as Kiwi’s. Tried it out and now it’s my Gmail wapon of choise :). So reading Omar Shahine’s blog I stumbled upon a reference to Mailplane. I hade some interaction with the support and got a ”we know we have stability issues with your version” answer.
#MAILPLANE DOCK ICON WINDOWS#
Then it stared crashing, having porblems with preview windows and stuff. Worked like a charm, hosted multiple accounts in isolation. After beta-testing for a while I got it and I was happy. I have multiple gmail accounts and had a hard time finding a nice solution for that.Īlong came a kickstarter project for Kiwi for Gmail, I imediatly liked it an backed it. That was a step up but I had challanges ther two.
#MAILPLANE DOCK ICON PC#
When I switched to Mac after a lifetime in PC land I found out about Fluid app (on the Ruby Rogues podcast I think) which let’s you wrap any webapp as it’s own Mac app, with a dock icon and all. So I pinned it to the first tab, which was ok but not awesome. Then I started realising the the it drowned visually among the other tabs in chrome. I’ve been using gmail for a long time and have been using the web UI.
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