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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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      @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

      @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

      @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

      @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

      Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

      After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

      Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

      Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.

      Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.

      You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.

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        bnrstnr @dbeato
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        @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

        @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

        @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

        Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

        After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

        Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

        This might not be a ton of emails, but I search all the time and it's always instant in Outlook.
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          scottalanmiller @bnrstnr
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          @bnrstnr instant, yes. Outlook is physically fast. It's "difficulty in finding what you need" that's the issue, I think. I know that it is for me. And that's not Outlook's fault in any way, just a general problem with using search alone to find something in a sea of text.

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            Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

            @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

            @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

            @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

            @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

            Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

            After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

            Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

            Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.

            Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.

            You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.

            No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.

            It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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              @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

              It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

              It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.

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                dbeato @Obsolesce
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                @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

                After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

                Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

                Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.

                Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.

                You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.

                No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.

                It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

                I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.

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                  Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                  @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                  It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

                  It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.

                  You just need to tell your people to send you better emails for searchability.

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                  • ObsolesceO
                    Obsolesce @dbeato
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                    @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                    Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

                    After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

                    Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

                    Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.

                    Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.

                    You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.

                    No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.

                    It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

                    I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.

                    Perhaps. I can only speak to my experiences. I know the bigger the index, the slower it will be. I remember a shared mailbox with a few hundred K emails was Hella slow in every way. But I get that.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                      @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                      @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                      It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

                      It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.

                      You just need to tell your people to send you better emails for searchability.

                      I'll get right on that. "Please include a UUID in all future emails."

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                        last edited by

                        @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        @Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                        Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

                        After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

                        Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

                        Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.

                        Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.

                        You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.

                        No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.

                        It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.

                        I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.

                        Perhaps. I can only speak to my experiences. I know the bigger the index, the slower it will be. I remember a shared mailbox with a few hundred K emails was Hella slow in every way. But I get that.

                        I don't think it is the speed that is of issue. But the ability to search well in a large volume of emails. The bigger the volume, the more any search term is repeated.

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                          360col @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                          ability to search well in a large volume of emails

                          Thunderbird does this very well. Its whats I used for my private email accounts.

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                            scottalanmiller @360col
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                            @360col said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

                            ability to search well in a large volume of emails

                            Thunderbird does this very well. Its whats I used for my private email accounts.

                            Me too. I don't use it day to day, but when I have a search problem, I fire it up.

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