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I don't have an iPhone, but I do have a question... What if you've sorted the list (by sender, for example) so the 'natural' place for the new message is half
by _sh 16y ago
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have a question...
What if you've sorted the list (by sender, for example) so the 'natural' place for the new message is half way down your list? Will it determine a travel delta or something similar to determine whether to snap you to the message?
I'm guessing you can't sort your email.
I've run into this problem before (how to orient a view of a list that is updated in the background). Google, for example, partitions the list into 'all items' and 'new items' so if you've paged half way through the list, the incoming item is added to the 'new items' view and a visual indicator is made that a new item exists (cf. Google Reader).
- johns 16y ago> I'm guessing you can't sort your email. Correct.
- snprbob86 16y agoYour post reminds me of a discovery I made a few weeks ago that BLEW MY MIND: You can not sort messages in Gmail. I'm betting that reading that statement just caused a bunch of people to say "Really?" and go check, but it's for real. In several years of using Gmail, I never felt the need. Search always found what I wanted. I mentioned this to some people in my office and they were similarly stunned that they never noticed. One curmudgeonly former Outlook jockey said that he's missed that feature forever. shrug. When I used to use Outlook on an Exchange server, search frequently didn't find messages that I already had open! They were just missing from the index, word stemming didn't work, or one of many other problems. Also, I used to hit my storage quota and have to sort by size to delete offending large attachments. Never have any of those problems with Gmail, so why would I need sort?
- cracki 16y agoLast time I checked, gmail doesn't do word stemming either, or substring matches.