One thing that I would like to see added to Airmail VIPs is a unified VIP inbox. That way, even if I’m busy and ignoring email, if something comes in that I need to see, Airmail VIPs surface it. I have VIPs set up for my family, friends, and MacStories colleagues. VIPs are basically just Smart Folders, which I discuss below, but for email senders.
One feature of Apple’s Mail apps that I like and have used to keep on top of important email – even when I don’t have the time to read all of it – is VIPs.
#Busycal wunderlist mac#
With the exception of account descriptions, I never had to recreate a setting in multiple places and with the granular sync settings in Airmail for iOS, I was able to dial in exactly what I wanted to mirror from the Mac to iOS with precision. It was because the account descriptions had not synced, which is not a big deal, but something I expected would sync.Īll in all, the setup process was remarkably simple and fast.
#Busycal wunderlist full#
I chose to display ’Description’ on the Mac and was confused at first when I went to my iPhone and the email accounts displayed the full email addresses instead. Airmail lets you set a custom ‘Full Name’ and ‘Description’ for each account and then specify which is displayed in different parts of its interface. One that I noticed right away was that email descriptions don’t sync.
#Busycal wunderlist for mac#
With very few exceptions, the dozens of little changes I made in Airmail for Mac appeared almost instantly on my iPhone and iPad when I opened Airmail there. That way, I only had to set things up in one place. Where Airmail saved me a lot of time was by syncing my settings between Macs and iOS devices using iCloud. With the help of 1Password and Authy, adding my accounts wasn’t too bad. Fortunately, Airmail makes it as painless as possible. That said, there is no way around the fact that switching email clients takes time and is a pain.
The benefit of trying things up front is that after I’m familiar with what’s possible, I can always go back and change things if the utility of something suddenly strikes me later. I experiment by changing anything that looks interesting to see what it does. Instead of forcing you into a particular way of working with email, Airmail lets you customize it to suit your individual needs.Įach tab of Airmail’s preference pane is full of ways to bend the app to your needs.īut how do you avoid getting sucked down a rabbit hole of endless app adjusting? What I do is set aside a chunk of time to familiarize myself with all the settings. Like the best task managers, though, the best email clients can appeal to a broad audience by being flexible. Everyone has their own way of working with email, which is why there are so many different email clients. That can be a detriment in some apps, but I don’t think it is in an email client like Airmail. If you work on both platforms regularly, deal with a lot of email or email accounts, and want to customize your email client to match the way you work, the combination of Airmail 3 for Mac and Airmail 1.1 for iOS is a terrific choice and one to which I am now fully committed.Ī word of warning – it is easy to sink a lot of time into fiddling with and tweaking Airmail because it has a lot of settings. This changes today with Bloop’s release of Airmail 3 for Mac, which brings Airmail’s best iOS features to the Mac. While I was tempted to go all-in with Airmail, the very advancements that made it so attractive on iOS held me back because most of them were unavailable on the Mac. Like a text editor, my email client is the kind of app for which I prefer a consistent feature set and setup on iOS and OS X. I appreciated the ability to customize nearly every aspect of the app, but it wasn’t sticking because I couldn’t do the same on the Mac. I downloaded Airmail and started playing with it. When Federico reviewed Airmail 1.1 last month, I liked what I saw.
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