After using the GMail web client and Emacs/mu for two decades, I've always considered email something snappy and accurate. Something I can deal with exactly the way I want to. Categorising, archiving, labelling and searching has been fast and powerful. Composing emails has been a comfortable and distraction free writing experience.
Now with Outlook, this has all changed:
- Bloated
- Sluggish web interface
- Evolution native app is much better, but still, it's like going back 15 years.
- Search is mediocre.
Email has become something I don't enjoy one bit. I just skim through. Read as fast as I can, and if I'm to write anything, I opt for the shortest possible answer, like "OK!" and "Thanks!". Mail has become little more than a rubbish bin for organisational spam.
