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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#82I'm confused why this is on the top of the front page.
I'm guessing that a lot of HNers spend a lot of time in their Gmail account, and that this functionality (which was news to me) was perceived as a significant time saver and judged to be worth sharing with the rest of the community.
I guess i just knew about it already and didnt find it ground breaking enough to be on the front page.. but hey, your reason makes sense and i dont have to agree with everything. =P
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#83In a related note, I hate how Google promotes top posting even when I select a specific quote.
the annoying kind: top post, bottom sig.
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#84the issue i have with this is that it deletes all previous messages from the email thread. So if someone wants to read back through previous messages or forward the email onto someone who does - no es posible.
conversely, this is one of the main reasons i use this feature.
why would you want to delete a thread history?
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
> habitual selectors Ah, my condition has a name. All it needs now is a support group. My case become terminal when I discovered three finger drag on OSX. HN is a particularly good site to do it on because of the little lines and gaps that appear between selected blocks of comments. You can get a very satisfying 'pop' of a multi-comment selection springing from a single one if you move your mouse just a bit while dra…
"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.
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#86The greatest feature for me is Send and Archive: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-send-archi...
That is in fact a brilliant feature, but the one I like the most is the sending undoing, saved me lots of times.
BTW, are you the Google Matt Cutts?
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, I gave jgc credit for the non-obnoxious title, and then I realized that the title is obnoxious, but the HN gods improved it.
I agree, that is a better title. I've changed the post title to match the HN title.
So, for posterity's sake, the original title was...?
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> habitual selectors Ah, my condition has a name. All it needs now is a support group. My case become terminal when I discovered three finger drag on OSX. HN is a particularly good site to do it on because of the little lines and gaps that appear between selected blocks of comments. You can get a very satisfying 'pop' of a multi-comment selection springing from a single one if you move your mouse just a bit while dra…
Curious... Why are you selecting? Is it to assist in reading, or some other reason?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh my that NYT feature drove me nuts. Not only does it mess with us habitual selectors but it is basically hidden from the users who need it most, those not savy enough to select-right-click-search-on-google a word they don't understand.
I'm kind of happy to have just learned I'm not the only person in the world who habitually selects like this. I've done this for as long as I can remember, and the NYT thing drove me nuts as well. Oddly enough I guess I always habitually deselect as well, so I've never noticed this gmail feature. Pretty useful. Now if it browsers supported Sublime Text-style multiple selections for quoting several different bits of a…
People are polarized because some find it very useful and some very annoying. Seems like a perfect example of what would be the best candidate for configuration option.