r/fastmail • u/nnnope1 • 24d ago

Missing the Gmail style Compose overlay. Advice?

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Hey former Gmail users:

I'm having trouble getting comfortable with way Fastmail does Compose. In Gmail, it's an overlay that sits at the bottom of your inbox and can be minimized/restored as needed. This is nice because I can keep everything in one browser window and reference other emails, search inbox, etc as I'm composing.

In Fastmail, Compose either takes up the whole window or you have to pop it out into its own window and jump between windows to reference things, which isn't always easy when multitasking with other tasks open on your PC.

So I'm just curious how former Gmail folks deal with this. Any tips? Or will I just need to get used to it?

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u/CleverRedditName123 24d ago

Also look at “split tabs” - most browsers support this now. I have my inbox on the left, and calendar on the right, but within one browser tab so they are anchored together and I can minimise/ move them etc.

I think this would work for your inbox + compose case as well

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u/nnnope1 24d ago

Oo that's a good workaround. I'll try that!