The other day, my beloved Mimestream started hanging and being slow. I’m probably not going to abandon it, but it was an excuse for me to set it aside for a while. I just opened a gmail.com tab in my browser and rolled like that for a while.
It was nice. Honestly, I probably look at my email a little too much. Not a massive productivity problem, but a break felt good and certainly wasn’t going to affect my productivity (might even help it).
Then I downloaded Spark Mail to give that a try. Used it a couple days. Totally fine. In the end, just not my thing. I don’t need meeting notes, calendars, or teams. Didn’t love the look or most of the default settings. Oh well. I could absolutely use it if I had to, but I don’t.
Then I opened up trusty ol’ Apple Mail. I assumed it would just work. My Gmail account is correctly added and activated. I tried to manually sync it. It wouldn’t even try to sync. A few restarts and waiting later I got it to try to sync, but then it would just stop syncing again. I peeked into Little Snitch and saw there was no network activity. Who knows why? Maybe Google was throttling it or something. I wanted to give Apple Mail a couple of weeks of usage just for fun, but nope.
I did prove what I assumed was true, though. I don’t really care what email client I use. The client isn’t what provides the productivity; it’s the habits.
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