Google urging people to be more asleep at the wheel

While it's interesting technology, and arguably useful, it's also seductively dependance-inducing and so something of an obvious lazy maker. And as such, in sue-happy-stan, a lawsuit waiting to happen. Do I have to spell that one out? Think about it.

Personally I'd much prefer if google's webmail would do proper threading. Notwithstanding micros~1's consistent insistence on reinventing the wheel incompatibly with the standard and therefore everyone else's method to link related messages together. So my preferred email client can make and break links to fix what others' intelligence insulting-software and ignorance broke. And I do use that feature a lot.

Similarly, tags and groups seem very convenient, but IME the most effective way to organise emails is to keep no more than, say, ten in your inbox. The rest gets filed in topical subfolders, threaded together. That actually closely matches how archiving using (physical) maps works, instead of colour-tagging lots of loose sheets of paper shuffled in many small piles then leaving them to clutter on your desk.

As such, nice ideas and all that, but they're poor reinventions at best. Admirable advanced trickery to make it work notwithstanding.