Comments on: Gmail Has “Mark unread from here” But…

By: Michał Tatarynowicz

Michał Tatarynowicz — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:46:47 +0000

I don’t get it, Gmail isn’t sorted by date?

By: Kaixi Luo

Kaixi Luo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:59:55 +0000

Or HTML signatures, .exe attachments, …

By: Tino

Tino — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:29:25 +0000

I haven’t actually had any issues with the lack of sorting as my conversations in my inbox usually fit on one screen perfectly.

Now that you mention it, I always start at the bottom and work my way up.

Sorting should not be that hard, I noticed it’s already in the list of “requested features” though.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:30:06 +0000

You need to be posting these good ideas on the Google forums for the product.

By: Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:23:49 +0000

Here’s why I want to sort by oldest: I empty my email inbox and archive everything. So, when I’ve got 175 conversations to process, I want to start at the oldest and move forward.

It’s not THAT big a deal, but now I page all the way back to start at the oldest first. I’d like to see the conversations I haven’t attended to the longest on top. (Often I measure how urgently I have to process things by how long it’s been since I dealt with the oldest messages.)

By: google.com/accounts/o8…

google.com/accounts/o8… — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:35:21 +0000

I don’t know why you would need sort. At work I have to use Outlook and sometimes I go to read the top message and miss and I have to wait for it to resort all of my email, then I have to sort by the date and wait again, then I can try to click the message. So I have 1 reason I hate sort (UI) and 0 reasons that I would use sort for anything other than by time.

By: Dave LaDuke

Dave LaDuke — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:23:13 +0000

I really want a feature similar to this, but for google reader. Specifically, “mark all posts [in a given feed] older than *this one* [selected] as read” or – even better – “mark all posts newer than this one as read”.

The latter would support my workflow best, which is to scan headlines starting from the top of a feed until something looks interesting, and read it. Since I already skipped everything above that headline, I don’t mind marking newer headlines as read.

I know that you have discussed a Firefox plugin for selecting and marking posts as read/unread, but I think doing it with the above command(s) would be great, too.

By: nic.wise

nic.wise — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:02:39 +0000

I would have thought it would be fairly obvious to someone like you Gina (a developer).

Sorting all my email (3.5GB of it, around 200K items) is an expensive operation which means either building a sequential index (one for each user, one for each view/sort option) or worst-case, scanning everything, which is seriously expensive.

Marking everything read from here down is easy, and can be done in the background – they only need to actually mark 1 or 2 pages worth for you to think it’s all done – and just do the rest is a background task.

Searching by attachment size should be easy tho. searching IN attachments the same….

By: Richard Koffler

Richard Koffler — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:44:48 +0000

BTW, the Trapani is the best of the bunch on TWig even if she’s been unusually quiet during the last two episodes.

By: Richard Koffler

Richard Koffler — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:43:35 +0000

My #1 peeve with Gmail: Can’t attach or read vCards, plus Google Contacts is almost useless and a few other bonehead deficiencies that make Gmail/Contacts very amateur-hour. Went back to Outlook after four weeks or really really wanting not to go back.