I just read about "5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about".
I like having you mail history working with the browser forward and back buttons. The keyboard history in your browser is usually Alt-left and Alt-right, great for flying thru you history. Control-tab flicks between tabs... the mouse is slowwww... anyway...
So here's my Number 6 little known hopefully awaited new feature.
What i am still extremely frustrated with is the new contacts. It's a bit better than the old one, but there are some simple things to make it a whole lot better.
My mate John just sent out an email saying his old age email address doesn't work anymore as he's now freelance, so i thought ok, lets clean up my contacts... eeeyyuuu......my response
Zac's Improved Gmail Contact Management Hitlist
- Show both the contact's name and email address in the second column, like composing.. otherwise it's becomes very confusing
- Get rid of the edit button! if i click on a contact in contacts, i am most likely going to want to see more detail.
- Drag and drop contact merge, Auto Merge ?? "Are these the same person?"
- Email Domain auto generated Filters like groups
- There are two icons for adding users and groups. I didn't naturally get that one the first time i used it. Gmail has a text based ui. Every other button has a text annotation... come on.. there's enuff space
- The group button, when no contact is selected, should still allow adding a new group
2 comments:
I agree that the contacts is cumbersome in gmail, especially the groups feature. Most things are so intuitive in gmail -- I'm surprised there hasn't been more development on that feature. Hopefully they take your suggestion!
I am happy to hear about the "archive, next" and "archive, previous" feature. It is handy to flip through a lot of only semi-useful mail (ie you want to look at it once and then forget about it) quickly.
I found you via a search for "merge gmail contacts". Your post is on page 1.
I see that your blog post is old, but this is a great idea all 'round for contacts. It's said these ideas are nearly a year old and STILL haven't been done. Unless you know something...e-mail roto.misc.mail [at]gmail
Thanks!
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