I didn't really feel the overhead of email until Gmail switched to their current theme. Now everything feels so sluggish and unwieldy that it really does constitute overhead, in real time seconds.
Whenever I used a native desktop software, like Thunderbird or Opera Mail, I was able to have conversations with people as quickly as in a chat client (and faster than texting, because of a real keyboard)
Whenever I used a native desktop software, like Thunderbird or Opera Mail, I was able to have conversations with people as quickly as in a chat client (and faster than texting, because of a real keyboard)