If you’re in desperate need of a task-scheduling client for OS X, it might be worth spending the $9.99 now, but I recommend waiting until the developer has worked out the kinks and added missing features. You may want to check out more Mac applications, such as Photo Print Pilot, DigitalTweaks Apple Mail Import Tool or Mail.Ru Agent, which might be similar to Mail Pilot. Mail Pilot shows a lot of promise, but the software’s still in too early a state for most heavy email users. Mail Pilot users can quickly manage and productively organize their inboxes with a simple, task-oriented approach, tailored for the desktop. At one point, Mail Pilot just mysteriously crashed. Occasionally, the app would simply spout out an error saying it wasn’t able to set an email aside or schedule a reminder. I also ran into a handful of errors where Mail Pilot had trouble filing messages in the right category. The developer also noted that speed and search improvements are currently being tested for a future update. MindSense says the feature is coming soon, but I view it as an unacceptable omission. I’m sorry, but drafts is a minimum requirement of an email client for me. The other problem I have is that Mail Pilot doesn’t support drafts at launch. I spend a good part of my day digging through old emails, so this is not okay. Mail Pilot failed to produce results on queries that I knew should produce hits. Search didn’t seem to be working properly either. I’ve only been using Mail Pilot for a day, but messages felt like they took a couple minutes longer to come in and longer to actually load. It’s enough of a disruption to my rhythm that it would turn me away. When I move on to the next message after sending, the app pops up a notification asking if I want to delete my reply. There’s an extra loading step after I send an email that is annoying. My main issue with the Mail Pilot build I tried is that it’s just too slow. The interface resembles Apple’s own Mail app, but with extra options for scheduling and marking as complete. Most importantly, Mail Pilot’s scheduling feature can be put to use through keyboard shortcuts. I get emails about potential news stories weeks in advance, and sometimes I forget to come back to them. It’s not a perfect solution, and it’s biggest weakness is scheduling. I use stars to mark items that I need to take action on and allow Google’s Priority Inbox to sort out the noise. My preferred email setup on the desktop is the old Gmail Web interface. You can mark emails as complete, set them aside to be dealt with later, schedule a reminder and sort them in a list. Mail Pilot uses a task-based system similar to Mailbox, Dispatch and Boxer.
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