New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon • Hacker News Board

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by MikeCapone » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 3:37 PM UTC

stanleydrew wrote: post #37

MikeCapone wrote: post #8

I installed it and it just says 30+ I wish it went up to 99 at least. I get about 150 emails a day...

I have 100+. Not sure what the discrepancy is.

I tried reloading and I still have 30+. Strange.

Update: After a bit of usage of GMail it's been updated to 70+. Seems to be working now.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by nollidge » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 3:50 PM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #59

joshu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.

Have them all forward to one gmail account and manage them from there.

There's a "multiple inboxes" labs feature that would probably come in handy for this.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by mike_heffner » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

Now only if Campfire would add this feature I could pin both these tabs.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by millerc » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

This just in: cloud services discover biff(1). Within a few years we should have an OS.

Sorry to be cynical, it pains me to see the whole state of computing thrown out the window everytime we reinvent new paradigms (none of which add substantial value).

Hint: we'll progress when we start building over old assets, not reinventing them at every "guerre de clocher".

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by camiller » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

spooneybarger wrote: post #31

mcmc wrote: post #10

What's the point? How many people actually keep fewer than 10k unread messages in their inbox?

I NEVER have more than 5 unread messages in my inbox. I have TONS that get filtered and archived to various labels but those are all mailing lists etc. But my inbox never has more than 5 unread messages and maybe 2-3 deal with soon messages. Unless of course I go on vacation and then I have an hour or two to get back to NORMAL.

I user Gmail's "Priority In-box" feature and my priority section never has more than 5-10. Sometimes I let the other part get a little unruly when I am busy. I did use the option to add a section for "unread" messages before the rest of the mailbox.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by tdfx » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

I wish they would come out with a HTML5 Desktop Notifications lab feature.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by jalada » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:04 PM UTC

Good, the extension I was using in Chrome had a tendency to be a bit buggy.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by heed » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 6:30 PM UTC

tdfx wrote: post #66

I wish they would come out with a HTML5 Desktop Notifications lab feature.

They don't have a lab feature for HTML5 Desktop Notifications, but you can build extensions utilizing it. Here is one I built to show notifications for gmail chat messages:

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/phokmbaffndjgejh...

:)

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by jordanlyall » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 7:12 PM UTC

It would be cool if we could interact with the app via the tab. Example: I'm in another tab and can right click the pinned Pandora tab to pause the music.

Re: New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon

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Post by joshu » Wed, Jan 26, 2011, 9:28 PM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #59

joshu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.

Have them all forward to one gmail account and manage them from there.

one's personal and one's my startup. probably not a good idea.