> I haven't seen any actual adaptivity in Inbox by Google. The interface is static, it's just different than ordinary GMail. Is there something I've missed?
If you turn on smart filters, it'll try to club promotions / payments / forums etc. smartly. It'd be right 90% time. But my threshold would be less than 1% failure.
If you open an email in Inbox, it'd recommend quick action replies like "Thanks, got it." or "Lets meet" etc.. It was on spot a lot of times, but I always wanted to add something more to the message and that's why I didn't use them.
> This is something I'd actually pay to use. Hell, long long time ago I backed a project for an Android tablet homescreen that was supposed to rearrange visible widgets depending on your location and time of day
I used One Plus2 briefly which had an area for smart apps. Since I could never predict what would be there, I never used it. I went there a few times to see if it would shorten time to action.
iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.
If Knowmail guys are reading this, I'm not trying to discourage the product. I think Smartness should be in "Search mode" and not "Action mode". Action mode is when I want quick decision making and less evaluation. Search mode is when I'm open for back to back snap evaluations and unsure of next steps. i.e. don't interrupt my natural patterns. Ofcourse, I'm just one data point.
> If you turn on smart filters, it'll try to club promotions / payments / forums etc. smartly. It'd be right 90% time. But my threshold would be less than 1% failure.
I see. It's about as accurate for me, but I don't care much about the 10% of misclassified e-mails so I didn't even notice.
> If you open an email in Inbox, it'd recommend quick action replies like "Thanks, got it." or "Lets meet" etc.. It was on spot a lot of times, but I always wanted to add something more to the message and that's why I didn't use them.
I totally forgot about it. I.e. I've read an announcement of that feature, but I'm yet to see it. I don't know if it isn't available in my region yet or if I just dismissed it and forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me about it.
RE apps, I haven't seen it done right yet. I still think it can be done well, but developers need to stop doing it via trivial heuristic (frequency of use) or by hooking it up to a global recommender. Hell, maybe I'll write a proof of concept over the weekend (and who knows, maybe I'll even prove myself wrong, and discover why the idea is pointless).
> I think Smartness should be in "Search mode" and not "Action mode".
I agree with that. I think ML would be useful in "Search mode", or "Learning mode". Actions definitely should be static, so that one can have a chance to develop habits that speed up things.
> iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.
Are you sure this is what you think it is? For me that app is always just an iCloud continuity app from my Macbook - like Safari or something.
I do have Siri app suggestions on the spotlight screen, those are typically useless.
You're right - looks like the same space is used for continuity/handoff and for the suggested apps - I've never actually noticed a suggested app like that.
If you turn on smart filters, it'll try to club promotions / payments / forums etc. smartly. It'd be right 90% time. But my threshold would be less than 1% failure.
If you open an email in Inbox, it'd recommend quick action replies like "Thanks, got it." or "Lets meet" etc.. It was on spot a lot of times, but I always wanted to add something more to the message and that's why I didn't use them.
> This is something I'd actually pay to use. Hell, long long time ago I backed a project for an Android tablet homescreen that was supposed to rearrange visible widgets depending on your location and time of day
I used One Plus2 briefly which had an area for smart apps. Since I could never predict what would be there, I never used it. I went there a few times to see if it would shorten time to action.
iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.
If Knowmail guys are reading this, I'm not trying to discourage the product. I think Smartness should be in "Search mode" and not "Action mode". Action mode is when I want quick decision making and less evaluation. Search mode is when I'm open for back to back snap evaluations and unsure of next steps. i.e. don't interrupt my natural patterns. Ofcourse, I'm just one data point.