Tons of new GMail thingies

GMail

I’ve been catching up on my news feeds and found out that GMail have added a host of new functions which I’m now messing with.

The first, and one I’ve been yelling about for ages, is they’ve finally made the Contacts search scan all the fields – which it used to in the old version. This is great for me as I’ve got information on people buried in the “info” field and used to be able to search on it. Then I couldn’t without reverting to an old version. now I can again. Yay!

Offline Email is essentially a limited version of configuring IMAP mail. It drags a portion of your mail down onto your desktop and enables you to write and reply to messages when you’re offline. When you go online, it synchronises. Neat.

A silly one is an option to add your location (based on your IP address) to your signature. As I travel around, I though this was funky so I’ve activated it. Only it doesn’t seem to work. At all. Maybe it’ll kick in shortly.

Another daft but useful one is a re-ordering of the tab text you see at the top of your browser. Essentially the number of messages in your Inbox is much closer to the start of the text string so it’s less likely to be hidden when you have multiple tabs open.

Finally, there’s multiple mailbox view. You can configure GMail to simultaneously show you several mailboxes, filters, labels and so on as message lists. Something I may make use of once I migrate back to a widescreen desktop environment.

New toys – got to love them.

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