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Gmail Now Tells You Who You Want To Email
- quoderat 18y agoIf only there were folders, I could use Gmail. I don't care for the "conversations" at all, but to each his own.
- hboon 18y agoGmail has folders now. Sort of. Use the "Move to" drop down menu button. It applies to labels, but it will work like how you expect folders would.
- pmjordan 18y agoAnd "archive" to remove the email from the inbox. The filters are pretty good (although I haven't found a way to do AND/OR operators between fields, just within them) and in addition to assigning labels you can auto-archive, among a few other options. Doing the filtering on the server is much cleaner (and more sensible) compared to doing this in Thunderbird previously. Combining filters and labels with the "Multiple Inboxes" labs feature is even better. I've got labels+filters for each of the customers of my consulting/contractor business and have the ones for whom I'm currently doing projects visible via the multiple inboxes, which gives me the latest info, within its context, all on one screen. Brilliant. Admittedly, it takes some time getting used to. I hated the Gmail UI when I first started using it and would use Thunderbird instead whenever possible. These days the only negatives I can think of are: * paranoid policy for attachments. No exes, no zips with exes for sending or receive. This can be REALLY annoying when working on desktop apps for customers. I would upgrade to the paid-for version if that let me switch this off. * reliability. About once a week either IMAP or the web interface go down. Almost never both simultaneusly, though, and rarely for long, so it's tolerable.
- hboon 18y ago"Move to" does labeling and archive in one action. That's why it is using labels as folders.
- axod 18y agoI've never understood this... When you have a search that works properly, and tags, why do you need folders?
- quoderat 18y agoI've never found a search in the world that can find something I don't even remember. With well-organized folders, I can, and more.
- axod 18y agoThat makes little sense. If you can remember what folder it's in, you must remember some criteria that you can search for. You should give it a try. It's a new way of working...
- nomoresecrets 18y agoI like the conversations, but what I really want is the ability to turn off conversation views, especially when searching. Sometimes when I'm searching tech discussions with colleagues/clients, etc, I just want to see the emails with the relevant terms, not all 75 emails in the conversation in a big cumbersome list.
- param 18y agoInteresting feature. Good that it doesn't keep recommending people ad infinitum. It stops after it thinks the group is big enough.
- vinutheraj 18y agoAnother interesting feature would be if you could schedule mails to be sent at a particular time maybe, like the 3mindme post which was posted some days ago.
- codeodor 18y agoAmen to that. I've often wanted to send emails out and specify the time they get delivered. But don't send it at the time we specify - send it out plus or minus two minutes and some change. There's nothing lamer than saying to yourself "Wow, what a nice email about 'thoughts you had today.' It came at midnight - wow, you sure were up late! Oh wait, it came at 12:00:00. What a douchebag." Well, there is something lamer: if you are the douchebag.
- tdavis 18y agoWho puts multiple addresses in the "To:" field? That's just asking for a nightmare.
- snprbob86 18y agoHow so? I email two to four people very frequently. That is much easier than creating a mailing list for every possible combination of PM, Tester, and Doc Writer who works on any feature with me.
- tdavis 18y agoBecause that only makes sense if you want them replying to everybody else, which is almost never the case, or you'd just make a real mailing list. I'm not saying "don't send e-mails to multiple people" I'm just saying "use CC appropriately."
- derefr 18y agoI, for one, would be safe using e-mail this way: none of my relatives even know where the "Reply" button is (though they long ago located Forward, sadly.) They just create a new message addressed to the original sender when they have something to say.
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- Scriptor 18y agoWhat, you've never had to exchange some emails between a small group of people?
- tdavis 18y agoAs I said above, I merely use CC. This gives the recipients the option of replying to everyone or just to me. Sometimes you'll want everyone to reply to everyone else, but since reply-all is just as easy as reply, I prefer the one that doesn't assume the former.
- zacharypinter 18y agoThere's some cool stuff in Gmail Labs. However, I wish google would setup an API (and perhaps an approval process?) for users to develop their own addons with serverside support. I don't think userscripts and Firefox extensions are enough.
- breck 18y agojust tried it out. works great! now if they only had better filtering of my inbox(more than 90% of my messages a day go unread---creating filters manually is not the answer).
- dmix 18y agoGMail devs, your next feature please: Automatic highlighting of emails from recipients whose messages are always opened immediately.
- breck 18y agoI know, right? ReMail does this. It's actually not hard and was in an internal version of Gmail for years. I guess the problem with it is then people learn to ignore any message not highlighted, so that when you get that one urgent email from a new sender you're prone to miss it.
- codeodor 18y agoIs there a group recipients feature? Something like assign Y contacts to X group and then send to group X?