{"id":82963,"date":"2022-09-30T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-best-mac-desktop-clients-for-gmail-aficionados\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:19:02","slug":"the-best-mac-desktop-clients-for-gmail-aficionados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-best-mac-desktop-clients-for-gmail-aficionados\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Mac desktop clients for Gmail aficionados"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images \/ Apple<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 439:single\/related:34c63c7c3671947ced99845c177ca1ff --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the situation: I have a Mac, I need a desktop mail client, and I want it to work as seamlessly as possible with Gmail.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img right medium\" style=\"width:300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Just a small slice of Gmail's Vim-inspired keyboard shortcuts.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-4.36.08-PM-300x274.png?resize=300%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-4.36.08-PM-640x584.png 2x\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Just a small slice of Gmail&#8217;s Vim-inspired keyboard shortcuts.<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Purdy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gmail has been my primary personal email provider since 2003. I&#8217;ve also had more than a dozen Google Workspace accounts over the years.  I understand the issues inherent in an advertising company managing my email and keeping me locked into its ecosystem.  But I dig Gmail&#8217;s Vim-inspired shortcuts, its powerful search capabilities, its advanced filtering, its storage\u2014and, of course, its availability in nearly any browser.<\/p>\n<p>But browsers are often where focus goes to flounder.  I want to give email a defined space, a visual context as a place I go to communicate.  And, incidentally, I want to avoid Gmail&#8217;s annoying nudges to use Meet, Spaces, or whatever the messaging focus is this week.  So let&#8217;s see what kind of Mac desktop client works best for someone with Gmail on the brain.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img center large\" style=\"width:100%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"All but one of the email clients I installed and tested for this guide.  Getting six notifications for each message?  A bit much.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-3.31.57-PM-640x388.png?resize=640%2C388&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-06-at-3.31.57-PM-1280x776.png 2x\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> All but one of the email clients I installed and tested for this guide.  Getting six notifications for each message?  A bit much.<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Purdy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The options I&#8217;m not using<\/h2>\n<p>The easiest option would be to simply use&#8230; well, Gmail.  Gmail&#8217;s web app has gradually become a remarkable simulacrum of a desktop client.  You can set up offline storage (in Chrome or Edge browsers) and desktop notifications, and you can make it the default mail handler for your browsers (and, with a little fiddling, Mac OS itself).  You can even make Gmail run in its own app-style window, either using a third-party app like Kiwi or Unite or simply the &#8220;Create shortcut&#8221; menu in a Chrome-based browser.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m avoiding browsers, even the sandboxed kind, and Google&#8217;s hunger for deeper engagement.  So what about Apple Mail, the client that&#8217;s already there?  That&#8217;s what Apple Mail is: it&#8217;s there.  It&#8217;s built for the widest array of Mac users, not Gmail types.  It doesn&#8217;t have Gmail&#8217;s keyboard shortcuts built in, nor does it offer much customization (not without serious tweaking, anyway).  Apple Mail allows for Gmail-style archiving and has some useful filtering and privacy tools, but if you want &#8220;Gmail: The Desktop Client,&#8221; this isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurich Lawson \/ Getty Images \/ Apple Here&#8217;s the situation: I have a Mac, I need a desktop mail client, and I want it to work as seamlessly as possible with Gmail. enlarge \/ Just a small slice of Gmail&#8217;s Vim-inspired keyboard shortcuts. Kevin Purdy Gmail has been my primary personal email provider since 2003. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-best-mac-desktop-clients-for-gmail-aficionados\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best Mac desktop clients for Gmail aficionados<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33991,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-unsend-an-email\/","url_meta":{"origin":82963,"position":0},"title":"How to unsend an email","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In the fast-paced, cutthroat business environment of the 21st century, it's easy to lose customer trust\u2014or worse\u2014by making a simple mistake in an email. 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