Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
Show HN: Gmail Thread Splitting
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#12I 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…
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.
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#13I have very rarely run into misbehaved threading. Even so, for me personally it's not enough to warrant the effort of doing a manual split. Threads are ephemeral and it's fairly trivial to change the subject and fork the thread. However, I would really love to see thread merging or some kind of grouping into a master thread which can track all the sub-threads. I am fairly certain this would have very high utility for…
This is pretty much Streak's core use case. You group threads (and other data) into a "box".
For your examples specifically you mention candidate tracking or bug tracking. Those are both default pipeline templates in our system.
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#14I have very rarely run into misbehaved threading. Even so, for me personally it's not enough to warrant the effort of doing a manual split. Threads are ephemeral and it's fairly trivial to change the subject and fork the thread. However, I would really love to see thread merging or some kind of grouping into a master thread which can track all the sub-threads. I am fairly certain this would have very high utility for…
This is essentially our main product - Streak.com.
We have a blog post on how we use Streak for bug tracking internally: http://blog.streak.com/2013/07/how-streak-uses-streak-to-tra...
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#15For someone who runs into this issue quite often; this is a great add-on. You'd be surprised how many issues and embarrassing emails have arisen due to Gmail incorrectly threading emails. Great job Streak :)
p.s. Is it just me, but I can't fathom why the Gmail team doesn't scoop these guys up ASAP :)
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#16I have very rarely run into misbehaved threading. Even so, for me personally it's not enough to warrant the effort of doing a manual split. Threads are ephemeral and it's fairly trivial to change the subject and fork the thread. However, I would really love to see thread merging or some kind of grouping into a master thread which can track all the sub-threads. I am fairly certain this would have very high utility for…
This is essentially our main product - Streak.com. We have a blog post on how we use Streak for bug tracking internally: http://blog.streak.com/2013/07/how-streak-uses-streak-to-tra...
You'll have to excuse me for not having noticed this, it's the first I have heard of Streak. This is indeed quite impressive and comprehensive.
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#17Nice.
I'm personally waiting for a tool to group and split mails in a mailing-group-compatibile tree view. Or at least something respecting the usual headers mailing groups use to mark which mails belong to which thread (so that when you change the topic the e-mail doesn't go to a different thread in GMail).
Not that I care about it for 99% of my conversations, but one Hackerspace I subscribe to seems to be stuck in 1980s Unix Land, and get terribly annoyed at people using GMail for mailing ;).
Re: Show HN: Gmail Thread Splitting
#18Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
> "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
That's a straw man if I ever saw one. No one here claims to be great. And no one is calling this product clueless. In fact all the discourse thus far is fairly civil other than this comment which comes off as hostile.
There will always be doubters, that doesn't make them haters. Why would they hate anyway? Shunning them as clueless and ignorant won't convert them--they'll only dislike you more for labelling them as such.
On topic, changing the subject is a means to accomplishing thread splitting and people do it for that reason. It may not work for everyone but it does indeed work and works reasonably well. There is nothing self-aggrandising about that.
Re: Show HN: Gmail Thread Splitting
#19AWESOME feature.
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#20Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
Sounds like the opposite of what hackernews is about.