The changes between my version and the actual version are subtle, but that’s what is so crazy to me - this isn’t rocket science. I just don’t get why simple margins and line spacing is missing - so that we may at the very least have a pretty window to look at when we are dealing with the hell that has become email.
Now take a look at how I would make that window look if I could: Take a look at how this app handles text when writing in plain text:
This app doesn’t look good when you are composing even a plain text message. I cannot do interleaved replies to the message.I have to move back and forth between window panes to see the original message.Airmail says it handles Markdown for composing an HTML, or Rich Text email with Markdown - this is really nice - and it works.īut, and this is a large warning, you must compose such a message in a split screen view like so: Speaking of composing, this app is really weird. If you won’t let me pick how the entire app typography looks, at least pick good typography for your UI to begin with. Having said that, you can of course choose your message font when composing - but that only tackles one of the two main activities. Both of those activities are type centric, so using Helvetica is a poor choice as it is neither a good typeface to read, or write with. I’ve said this before, but there are two primary activities done in email: reading and writing. Like all apps soon will, Airmail primarily uses Helvetica Neue as the typeface and I think that’s a shame.
#Font size compose airmail for mac update#
((There is a ‘classic’ option for the titlebar which is all silver, but that looks worse to me.)) Hopefully a Yosemite update comes to fix this, but it feels too much like Tweetie for the Mac and that just makes me sad for the loss of Tweetie in general. Personally I loathe the way the title bar looks in Airmail, with the faux layering and depth effects. That’s not to say it is necessarily better, but it is different. Mail.app is a bit long in the tooth - even the Yosemite version - but Airmail is different. Unfortunately to make use of these additions I must learn new shortcuts - so I didn’t test these too heavily. Which are nice additions to have baked into the app at the native level. Importantly, Airmail integrates with apps like OmniFocus, Fantastical, and Reminders. Which is something I can greatly appreciate, since I mostly just want to get in and get out of email. It’s just email, and Airmail seems to get that. Unlike many of the other apps out there, Airmail doesn’t try to make a game out of your email. I’ve been using it everyday for some time now and I honestly still don’t know how I feel about it. I downloaded a copy and set it as default. People had mentioned Airmail to me, but I hadn’t tried it - importantly though I thought I had tried the app - so I dismissed it for a few days, until I noticed I didn’t own it. Over the years I have tried many third-party email clients, but all of them left me wanting to go back to Mail.app - and since there is no Dispatch for OS X, I was determined to find something else. It crashed every time I tried to create a new email message ((Unless I used an AppleScript to create the message.)), or tried to forward an email which contained an attachment. It never was the fastest tool, or the most friendly, but I was always able to get the job done.Īnd then I installed the Yosemite developer preview and Mail.app was effectively broken for me. I was a regular reader, and huge fan, of Hawk Wings (now apparently offline) and through the things I learned there I tweaked Mail so that it worked correctly. Since I made the switch to OS X in 2004, I have found myself to be a very loyal Mail.app user.
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