Sparrow email for Gmail

Tech for travel- one of the basics is doing email, when and where you can.  If you can do this, you are Exechobo road ready.  If you use Gmail, you may copy emails into Word or Text Edit and compose responses, then paste them into an email when you get online.  Or you might just have another Jack and deal with it when you land and find an internet connection.  That's no way to roll.

And if you have several email accounts, like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc, you just do all that with the accounts that are most critical to you.

But I do like my Gmail.  I like it for keeping all the messages I want to save, for how fast it is, how reliable it is, the way I can tag emails.  What to do?

Try Sparrow!  By Viêt Hoà Dinh, Dominique Leca & Jean-Marc Denis.  It has a clean, simple interface.  The free version has ads and only works with one account.  I will try it for awhile before paying for the app and the ability to add all my accounts.  At $10 it is priced fairly.  


So far I like the use of Growl to notify me of emails.  The way Sparrow handles tagging is also an improvement, keeping the tags out of the way till I want to drop down the pick list.  The simple icons on the margins are effective and complete.