AOL had this feature in the mid-90s
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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#113Not all that useful if I want to respond to more than one quote, is it?
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#114That's all nice and dandy, but check this out. For a few months now I've been noticing that emails from my inbox were being moved after a few days into spam, without any kind of warning. This happens once every two weeks, more or less. We're not talking about false positives, these are emails that stay in my inbox for days before being moved to the spam folder. Which basically means I need to check my spam folder eve…
Do you have keyboard shortcuts enabled?
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#115In a related note, I hate how Google promotes top posting even when I select a specific quote.
What's wrong with top-posting? (I've using email since the 90s, and at some point I realized I only disliked top-posting because of its cultural significance--I now prefer it for its functional advantages.)
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#116I'm pretty sure this feature is not on by default. You must turn it on in labs and then it is enabled. It's odd if that's the case because everyone posting here knows of it as if it were just part of the experience.
But I'm looking at the on/off radio button in labs in another tab right now.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?" Sometimes unconscious compulsion, otherwise to put together a quote in the context of an existing thread. I immediately noticed this feature due to the high number of discards :)
Scrolling. Selected text or word is just a marker when scrolling fast. It is much easier to follow visually fast moving selected part of the text than to keep track about sentence that I'm currently reading. When using keyboard it's not that important, since one quickly learn how much PgDn scrolls, but when using mouse it is good to have a selection marker to quickly continue to read from there after scrolling.
I'm waiting for a bug in incognito to be fixed before I start promotion but I built a chrome extension that specifically solves this problem if you'd like to try it out.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magicscroll-web-re...
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#118I do use this feature -- I often select random blocks of text while reading. This feature means I often (5-10% of the time) have to click discard and then reply again to get my desired behavior. In related news nytimes.com used to have a similar feature where the definition of words would pop up when you selected them. It basically caused me to stop reading their site.
Quora has a very similar annoying behavior. Every time you select some text, it asks if you want to "Embed Quote". I select text just to get some focus.
Yes! And the worst part is that the "Embed Quote" box appears below your selection, obscuring text you're about to read.
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#119Great! Except lately I've come to despise ui elements that can only be discovered by accident. An easily usable and effective feature that I only find via a blog post is a feature that could use some visual feedback.
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#120Wow, it's a slow news day on HN today.
Here is the email feature I want. If I paste a URL that looks like a post/article into a new message, I want the slug automagically split, title cased and copied into the subject line.
For example:
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/11/the-greatest-google-mail-feature-you.html
The Greatest Google Mail Feature You