Gmail Labs launching more cool new additions
Ivan | Mon, 2008-11-03 23:04
Gmail launched many new Labs features to choose from:
- Right-side chat, so you can make use of your wide-screens.
- Right-side labels, for the same reason.
- Hide Unread Counts, to clean up the Gmail interface.
- Advanced IMAP Controls. Choose which labels show up in IMAP, turn off message auto-expunging, or trash messages when they're deleted from IMAP.
- Canned Responses. Save and then send your common messages using a button next to the compose form. Also automatically send emails using filters. This is a very powerful and very useful tool for those who don't already use one of the auto complete features on their OS.
- Default 'Reply to all'. Very powerful if you collaborate with many people frequently, but can be dangerous if you're not careful.
- Quote selected text.
- Navbar drag and drop. Allows you to reorder your sidebar items. Very useful. I wish it allowed me to close some altogether.
- Mail Goggles. It's a toy to get your thoughts together.
- Forgotten Attachment Detector. Very useful indeed.
- Vacation Time! Lets you specify starting and ending dates for the vacation autoresponder.
- Custom Label Colors.
- Mark as Read Button. I don't see much use as it's already up there.
- Go to label. Only useful if you use labels, which I don't.
- Google Calendar gadget. This is my favorite. It puts a mini customizable calendar in your sideabar. Total time saver!
- Google Docs gadget. Also a great addition as it allows direct access to your commonly used or starred docs.
- Add any gadget by URL. Wow, this really opens up the interface to practically anything. Can you guys suggest what gadgets could be useful here?
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Almost all those features have been in Gmail for several months. Most of the features work very well, though some I can't get to work no matter how much I swear at my screen ;-)
The ability to move labels/chat to the right side or left is great. I moved it over to the right where it's out of the way.
The Mark As Read button is new, and a welcome addition. You probably always had it because there has been a Greasmonkey script (or Stylish script?) to add one for at least a year now... I know I had it as well, but I can't recall where I got it.
I haven't tried canned response, but then again, I don't use Gmail that much.
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I think these must be appearing for different people at different times, they are new to me. :)
Like a lot of companies (Apple), it appears that Google rolled-out these features in the U.S. first.
Some of them are nice, some not so nice. As already mentioned, the IMAP stuff is still kind of a mess.
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I messed around with the Google IMAP controls to make some of the extra folders disappear from Mail app and the iPhone, now for some reason when I try and delete a Gmail message I get this error:
The destination mailbox “(null)” does not allow messages to be moved to it.
I have to manually drag items into the Gmail trash on Mail app, from the iPhone I can't delete anything at all.
Pretty annoying.
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