<p>Do you use it? Pros? Cons?</p>
<p>I hear it has lots of organizing features - something my personality is sure to love!</p>
<p>I don’t know much about it. Can I merge my other emails within it? Or is it a seperate email box??? Do you use it for home or/and work?</p>
<p>As I’ve asked CC so many times before…EDUCATE me!!!</p>
<p>The part about Gmail I like is the spam filter. I give out my gmail address to everyone and even have it posted on the internet publically, and get maybe 7 spam e-mails a day that all go to my spam filter. Only about 1 a week passes by and ends up in my inbox.</p>
<p>It’s so good that I don’t need to have two e-mails (one for junk, one for close friends only) anymore.</p>
<p>I love gmail! I have two accounts, one for all the stores I get emails from or for anyone I don’t want to have my personal email, and another for personal. I had all my emails from my old email address forwarded to my gmail until I closed my old account; it is very easy to do.</p>
<p>I also get very look spam; maybe one a day in my public email and maybe 5 a year in my personal account.</p>
<p>How did you forward your mail from your old address?</p>
<p>Under Settings there is a tab called Accounts and Imports; that is where you can set up the forward. I also had the option with my old email account which was with Earthlink to set up mail forwarding.</p>
<p>I switched to gmail a couple years ago, and am very glad I did. Once you get a gmail account, if you click on the “settings” link and look at the “accounts and import” tab – I think that’s where you set up forwarding. There’s a help section, which I’m pretty sure is where I went when I initially needed to figure it out.</p>
<p>I like that you can label (or tag) every email, and that every email can have multiple tags. Makes it easier to find old emails. I used to have aol, and I find gmail much easier and intuitive to use. </p>
<p>I also love Google docs. Since I work on multiple computers, I use Google docs when I have to write something, and don’t have to attach Word files to emails or use flash drives. Google docs is also a good way to share documents that are too large to email.</p>
<p>The only thing that bothers me is that the ads I get sometimes correspond with the subject of my emails. That’s a little creepy.</p>
<p>The ad is so small that I don’t even notice it any more. I also do not get the ads when reading my email in Firefox, but do in Safari. I leave my personal gmail opened in Firefox and the other in Safari during the day to make it easy to go back and forth. Maybe I have one account set differently that the other, but I just assume the no ads is due to the browser.</p>
<p>Do you need a gmail address to use google docs? Does it operate within gmail? (when you attached items to an email???)</p>
<p>I have several email addresses (gmail, yahoo, etc), one of which is an aol address. AOL makes it difficult to forward the address/mail. Has anyone successfully set up mail forwarding from aol to google? If so, how?</p>
<p>I use gmail, and in general I like it.</p>
<p>But the e-mails (they call them “conversations”) are arranged in an odd way that can be hard to follow, especially if the string of e-mails involves more than two people. I live with it because gmail’s service is better than Yahoo’s (which is what I used before). But I don’t like it.</p>
<p>I have two gmail accounts, one for personal email, one for email from stores, etc., just like snowball. The good thing is that storage space is essentially unlimited, and you can send and receive large files. The bad thing is the lack of privacy. The ads are closely tailored to the content of the messages and, although I know there is not a human reading them, it still give me the creeps. Recently, I mentioned in an email that something was attached, then clicked “send” without attaching anything. A message popped up, asking whether I’d forgotten the attachment.</p>
<p>I agree with Marian that the threads are very hard to follow, and it is easy to miss new messages.</p>
<p>I actually like the threads. They work just like a thread on a message board. When my friends and I are planning a trip, we’ll have an e-mail of about 10 of us, going back and forth… so the 500 emails (literally) that we are likely to send making arrangements are all listed under one e-mail rather then under 500 separate ones clogging up my view of my other e-mails.</p>
<p>abasket, google docs operates within gmail. It’s called Google Documents. You upload a file to it, and choose who, on gmail, you want to share it with, and then it will show up in their Google Documents as well as your own. I’ve used it to share excel files, word files, etc. Everyone you share it with can then edit it right there in gmail (it has a built in word/excel type program) and save it back to the Google Documents for everyone’s viewing pleasure.</p>
<p>If you don’t like the threaded emails, you can go into your settings and turn conversation view off.</p>
<p>Fendergirl, that’s what my D was explaining to me - the ease at which her and fellow students working on a project/paper etc. can edit it and everyone can see the edits. </p>
<p>I think this must go on my list of “technology to try”. :)</p>
<p>It’s the best email system that I’ve seen. It has tons of features and is quite accessible from various devices. Others have explained things that they like about it.</p>
<p>One feature that I love is being able to make phone calls from gmail using your computer microphone and speakers, or a headset.</p>
<p>I’ve been using gmail exclusively since 2006. Everything except my corporate e-mail account forwards to my gmail account. It has become my searchable brain. I can’t express in words how vital it is to my existence. One of a multitude of examples: if I know someone’s moved within the past few years but I can’t remember their address, chances are that they sent me an e-mail about it. I search for their name, and voila… contact info. Or, birth announcements. Or, names of people’s spouses.</p>
<p>For four years, I haven’t bothered to remember odd details because I always know that I can search for them later. I can e-mail myself important files, including some key words in the body of the message, and can always and forevermore retrieve them later. </p>
<p>If I lose that account, I might as well give up, hop a boxcar, and become a hobo, because I’d be completely lost.</p>
<p>I definitely like the thread feature, save a lot of room in the inbox. Also I like being able to send sms text messaging right from my email account.</p>
<p>You can download your GMail account to your local computer using an iMap connection.</p>
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<p>(Oh, I have it archived several places… Some days, I’d just really like an excuse to hop a boxcar and become a hobo. 
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