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There's still some major features missing in gmail. The biggest, for me, is "sort by." I use this feature at least once a week in Outlook and for the life of

There's still some major features missing in gmail. The biggest, for me, is "sort by." I use this feature at least once a week in Outlook and for the life of me can't figure out why this relatively simple feature hasn't been added to gmail.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
What do you sort by, if I may ask? I'm so used to GMail that I guess I don't feel like I'm missing anything. All of my needs are handled by searching for stuff and and/or applying stars.
- Consultant32452 10y ago
  Try finding the first email you ever got from Amazon (or any common sender). In Outlook this would be trivial. from: Amazon, sort by date. With Gmail you can search by the sender, but you have to click through page after page to find the oldest one.
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Right. Well, now I'm sad because I realized that indeed I had this problem occasionally; the way GMail implements search I don't exactly even trust them that the first mail they show me is actually the first mail, and not search bugging out. I guess I forgot about that because I very rarely need to do such a search. You also reminded me of another e-mail annoyance - people sending PGP signatures in attachments make it nigh-impossible to search for actual attachments, as every conversation with those senders looks like it has one.
    - Thlom 10y ago
      You can search by attachment size, which might help a bit.
puddintane 10y ago
The feature does exist however it doesn't work in every scenario. Essentially when your pager shows "X - Y of Z" (and not "X - Y of many") the keyword being many of course. Your able to hover over the "X - Y of Z" and choose "Oldest" [1]. So essentially if data is indexed your able to. I was not able to search any filter and apply this however on any Label I created I was able to do this. So steps to find the oldest from amazon would probably have to be 1. Create filter+label that groups them all into one category. Wait for indexing to catch up should be fairly quickly since we are not talking petabytes of random data. 2. Choose the label on the left and on the top right hover over the "1-100 of 9999" and choose oldest. Not the best work-a-round of course and makes sense why it's setup this way (Helps with optimization) however if a person sets up a lot of labels then they are already set up to do this feature. [1] https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first/ https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first... edit Also there is the method of using the search field parameters for example. "Amazon.com before:2004/04/16" [2] then you could more quickly go thru them (however if you didn't know your starting point this would prove to be tricky of course!) [2] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en
- Consultant32452 10y ago
  I appreciate the response and in the case of a dire need I suppose I might utilize that. But WOW that's a lot of trouble to do something that's essentially a couple clicks in Outlook.
djsumdog 10y ago
When I deleted my gmail accounts in 2013 (post Snowden leaks) they still didn't have partial word search. I had to connect to Gmail using Thunderbird and Google's terrible IMAP implementation just to search for parts of words .. in 2013 .. from the e-mail provider that's a search company. O_o

TeMPOraL 10y ago

What do you sort by, if I may ask? I'm so used to GMail that I guess I don't feel like I'm missing anything. All of my needs are handled by searching for stuff and and/or applying stars.

Consultant32452 10y ago
Try finding the first email you ever got from Amazon (or any common sender). In Outlook this would be trivial. from: Amazon, sort by date. With Gmail you can search by the sender, but you have to click through page after page to find the oldest one.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Right. Well, now I'm sad because I realized that indeed I had this problem occasionally; the way GMail implements search I don't exactly even trust them that the first mail they show me is actually the first mail, and not search bugging out. I guess I forgot about that because I very rarely need to do such a search. You also reminded me of another e-mail annoyance - people sending PGP signatures in attachments make it nigh-impossible to search for actual attachments, as every conversation with those senders looks like it has one.
  - Thlom 10y ago
    You can search by attachment size, which might help a bit.

puddintane 10y ago

The feature does exist however it doesn't work in every scenario. Essentially when your pager shows "X - Y of Z" (and not "X - Y of many") the keyword being many of course. Your able to hover over the "X - Y of Z" and choose "Oldest" [1]. So essentially if data is indexed your able to. I was not able to search any filter and apply this however on any Label I created I was able to do this. So steps to find the oldest from amazon would probably have to be 1. Create filter+label that groups them all into one category. Wait for indexing to catch up should be fairly quickly since we are not talking petabytes of random data. 2. Choose the label on the left and on the top right hover over the "1-100 of 9999" and choose oldest. Not the best work-a-round of course and makes sense why it's setup this way (Helps with optimization) however if a person sets up a lot of labels then they are already set up to do this feature. [1] https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first/ https://gsuitetips.com/tips/gmail/sort-email-by-oldest-first... edit Also there is the method of using the search field parameters for example. "Amazon.com before:2004/04/16" [2] then you could more quickly go thru them (however if you didn't know your starting point this would prove to be tricky of course!) [2] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en

Consultant32452 10y ago
I appreciate the response and in the case of a dire need I suppose I might utilize that. But WOW that's a lot of trouble to do something that's essentially a couple clicks in Outlook.

djsumdog 10y ago

When I deleted my gmail accounts in 2013 (post Snowden leaks) they still didn't have partial word search. I had to connect to Gmail using Thunderbird and Google's terrible IMAP implementation just to search for parts of words .. in 2013 .. from the e-mail provider that's a search company. O_o