An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail

It’s been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Email isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but I figured I should give a little update on how things have been going after the move to Fastmail since so many people saw the original post. The quick version is that I think I picked right with Fastmail. You can find cheaper email hosts out there. I’m sure they’re great too, but I’m really happy with Fastmail’s value considering all I’m getting. Inbox organization I ended up starting fresh instead of forwarding my Gmail to my new address. This was definitely the right move for me for reasons I’ll get into. My biggest concern moving away from Gmail was my inbox organization. Gmail does a pretty alright job of automatically sorting out promotional emails from notification emails from human-sent emails and so on. It’s the only reason my inbox has remained somewhat manageable over the years despite no effort on my part. The solution…