I have a problem of wasting time on the Internet a whole lot by randomly browsing various websites. The problem, I have noticed is the browser. When you use gmail’s web interface you tend to browse through your RSS feeds. Now when you are online, you don’t tend to do just that. Once you start reading feeds, you shoot of on a tangent and hop, skip and jump from one website to another.
This is basically where you become less productive. By using a e-mail client you use the web less. You can check your feeds once a day, write your blogs once a day, etc. So why then Foxmail when there are clients such as Thunderbird and Outlook? One feature I liked about Foxmail is that you can have multiple accounts each with its own password. I’m not talking about mail passwords, I’m talking about account passwords to access the account in Foxmail. Thunderbird can be locked, but it is one lock for all accounts (and I believe it is an add on and not a standard feature). By default, it maintains one mailbox for all accounts. I initially took a look at Thunderbird for its cross platform usability, however I found Foxmail to be a better alternative than any.