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I have never understood gmails features. They consitantly do not work for me, maybe the way i use email is too old school or something. Threads are consistent

by math0ne 12y ago

I have never understood gmails features. They consitantly do not work for me, maybe the way i use email is too old school or something. Threads are consistently broken, the messages are in the wrong order and are almost never grouped logically with seemingly random emails getting placed in same thread. The new tab system seems to only be right about 30% of the time, I constantly have extreamly important emails going to the promotions and updates tab even after I have seemingly said all further emails of this type should go to primary. I'm genuinely curious do these features work well for others? Am I alone in finding that these things just don't work?

neals 12y ago
Works near-perfect for me. The tabs work, the threads work. Happy gmailer right here! :) I do everything from gmail, it's pretty much my life. I receive about 50 mails a day. I have important logs and reports from my servers come into gmail. I hardly ever have to re-organize. Now, how do we find out the difference between how you and I use gmail?
tokenizerrr 12y ago
The only issue I personally ever had was gmail tagging almost anything as spam after I initially imported all my old email. It would even tag mails from my contacts as spam, but this stopped after a week or so. I've never encountered anything like what you describe.
aleem 12y ago
The biggest productivity boosters are filters and labels, once you have them setup. This works if you are working on recurring themes (long running projects, recurring tasks such as billing, etc). I imagine everyone has keyboard shortcuts enabled. If you like using labels, you should probably be using sub-labels also. Another trick that is indispensable to me is creating a contact for "note to self" with myhandle+note@gmail.com. Then you can filter such mails and apply a yellow label. With this setup you can send yourself notes whenever you want. You can also add private notes to existing threads which I find very helpful. I may be wrong but I think emails in tabs are classified based on the email address so it may not work when the email address changes. It should work if you continue training but I am speaking only from personal experience.
JetSpiegel 12y ago
Just use Thunderbird. Even Outlook and Apple Mail are better.

by math0ne 12y ago

neals 12y ago

Works near-perfect for me. The tabs work, the threads work. Happy gmailer right here! :) I do everything from gmail, it's pretty much my life. I receive about 50 mails a day. I have important logs and reports from my servers come into gmail. I hardly ever have to re-organize. Now, how do we find out the difference between how you and I use gmail?

tokenizerrr 12y ago

The only issue I personally ever had was gmail tagging almost anything as spam after I initially imported all my old email. It would even tag mails from my contacts as spam, but this stopped after a week or so. I've never encountered anything like what you describe.

aleem 12y ago

The biggest productivity boosters are filters and labels, once you have them setup. This works if you are working on recurring themes (long running projects, recurring tasks such as billing, etc). I imagine everyone has keyboard shortcuts enabled. If you like using labels, you should probably be using sub-labels also. Another trick that is indispensable to me is creating a contact for "note to self" with myhandle+note@gmail.com. Then you can filter such mails and apply a yellow label. With this setup you can send yourself notes whenever you want. You can also add private notes to existing threads which I find very helpful. I may be wrong but I think emails in tabs are classified based on the email address so it may not work when the email address changes. It should work if you continue training but I am speaking only from personal experience.

JetSpiegel 12y ago

Just use Thunderbird. Even Outlook and Apple Mail are better.