One of the reasons for Ginger Labs’ success is its focus on intuitive design, combined with powerful features. The app receives generally good reviews and won Apple’s Editors’ Choice award. Notability is a well-known note-taking application for both iOS and macOS. I'll be keeping an eye on Twobird often to keep track of its progress.Ginger Labs, the makers of Notability, have released Twobird, a brand-new email client for iOS, macOS, Windows and Android. It's fast and available on all popular platforms. If signatures and email formatting are not important to you, give the app a try. However, Spark provides exceptional support for features like signatures and email formatting, which is not something you can say about many other cross-platform email apps. Spark also has limitations when it comes to email search, even though it is implemented very well. The primary reason for keeping Gmail around, specially on iOS, is that it lets me search all emails, without any limits. Until the app adds the aforementioned missing features, I will be sticking with a combination of Spark and Gmail. More often than not, email apps launch on one platform and do not support any other. The best thing about Twobird is that it is available on all popular desktop and mobile platforms: Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, as well as in browsers. The search is also quite basic, which is not very useful for an email app that targets professional users. There is no built-in integration with cloud storage such as Dropbox or Google Drive, which are commonly used in workplaces. It does not allow you to setup HTML emails and there are visible email formatting tools available. The app works really well but it also lacks a few crucial features that are integral for work-related emails. It works great and helps a lot to get rid of useful junk. The app allows you to select as many emails as you want and unsubscribe to them with one click or tap. Lastly, there is a list of subscriptions available from the sidebar, which shows all automated emails that you receive. You can also enable a 'smart inbox' of sorts so that low priority email is also set aside in the sidebar. However, they do not sync with 'starred' emails in Gmail. You can also 'pin' emails to show them in the sidebar. The app shows a 'recent' list of emails and notes that you viewed in the sidebar, which is helpful to jump back into the last email you were working with. There is enough cognitive load when dealing with emails that the last thing you want is further details to look at in the same interface. However, I personally don't find the need to have my notes show in my email list. Users don't even need to login to make changes to them. These shared notes work great in practice. It works similarly to Google Docs, except that it's right in your inbox. One a task is assigned to a team member, you can chat with them right within the document. Inside the notes, you can use markdown for editing, and even assign sections of the notes to team members. Notes appear in the email list, along with their creation date and the ability to set reminders for them. You can start a note from anywhere in the app, even when you're viewing an email. The developers have really focused on the integration between notes and email in the app. However, you can recipients in your emails and also respond with emojis. If you need to format any text, you have to learn to do it using keyboard shortcuts, or the markdown-like syntax that is listed in settings. Replying to emails is a breeze, if you do not use signatures, or need to paste a table in the email. I was still able to see more of that in the app compared to seeing the same email in Spark. However, the signatures, messy formatting, and previous emails in a thread don't really go away as well as Twobird developers claim. Whether you have an inbox with thousands of emails, or long email conversations, the app does not break a sweat. When you log in and set up your Google account, the first thing you notice is that app loads email very quickly. Right off the bat, the app supports light and dark modes too. However, the developers have neatly organized various features in the app, while maintaining a clean look, which I'm a fan of. After an initial look, one could be forgiven for assuming that the app does not have many features. It has a beautiful simplistic user interface, which reminds me of Mailbox. Twobird is free to download for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, and it even works inside a browser. For work and personal email, I use a combination of Spark and Gmail. I still have a weird workflow that spans multiple apps. I have a habit of trying every new email app ranging from good old Mailbox (RIP) and Edison to Spark and AirMail, and even Superhuman, to see see which app is the fastest and can help improve productivity. Before I go into details, let me make one thing clear: I have a thing for email apps.
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