What I really want is something that can cause the icon to change when I get new chat messages. I frequently find myself unable to hear the soft incoming message sound, because I'm listening to something louder, and it would be nice to have a visual indicator.
New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
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#42What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?
I currently have 9 emails in my Inbox total, and that's a lot for me.
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#43i want the shortcut icon to do this in my bookmark bar.
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#44It's great, I actually wanted this thing since I use pin tab all of the time for Gmail, but I dislike that it displays a number even if you have an empty inbox too.
I don't like seing a 0, it should have defaulted to the normal icon. I try to keep my inbox as short as possible and I label a lot so having an empty inbox is expected.
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#46I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done. Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment? Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.
Yeah, that's one of the most valuable tips I got from the whole GTD thing: stop your email client notifying you when new email arrives. Productive email is asynchronous.
Closing it down is best, but when I accidentally leave it open I still don't want the message count visible. In addition to enabling the Labs feature to turn off the inbox count in the web UI, I also have a one-line Greasemonkey script to remove it from the document/tab title.
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#47Number of starred items might be more useful.
Also, seems to be an issue - this number does not increase (from 0 to 1 in the test I did) when you 'mark as unread'. Tried to give feedback about this to gmail labs but couldn't.
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#48Interesting... I like it, but it's entirely eclipsed by extensions like Google Mail Checker Plus[1], for me. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gffjhibehnempbke...
I prefer the favicon over the extra clutter of another icon.
depends how many accounts you've got. I'm checking 3 accounts so it saves having to have 3 pinned tabs open.
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#49I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done. Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment? Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.
I use HTML based version (faster and less prone to JS glitches) and there's no gmail number in title.
You should give keyboard shortcut a try (require JS). This alone forces me to use JS in gmail.
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#50Nice feature, but they'd better not show 0 when no unread messages.