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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2010-09-30 12:01 pm
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[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Don't know what cilantro is, but for me, conversation view in gmail is the Big Thing that suddenly made email Suck Less.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-30 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
I suggest you don't click on the "off" button then. Personally, I'll be clicking it the moment it appears.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-30 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok. Let's say that you have an email thread with 67 emails in it. And you want to keep two of them for doing stuff with later. How does one do that with gmail conversation view?

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Star both of them. They show as expanded when you go to the thread.

Also, if you forward them and change the subject, they fork off.

When do you have 67 emails in a thread? Mailing lists? I hate mailing lists; they're completely unusable and antiquated.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-30 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I frequently get that many responses to a post on LJ, and they all get threaded together. If I want to save a couple of proper replies later, then they're in the middle of that.

I also frequently start the day with an email saying "Hi" to a friend or two, and then we're still replying when I leave the office in the evening. There'll be at least 50 emails in that thread, and freqently a fair bit more.

[identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I find that starring the relevant ones works for me too.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-30 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortunately I don't have to worry about using workarounds like that any more - I can just read them all individually. Context is rarely a problem with email for me, so having them all grouped together doesn't gain me anything.

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I still have my LJ go to yahoo... never bothered to change it.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2010-09-30 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
All of my stuff goes to andrew@ducker.org.uk. It's the only email account I actually use. I used to also use andrew@notzen.com, but I haven't even checked that in an age.

[identity profile] woodpijn.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
For me too.

I think cilantro is American for coriander. I'm not keen on the stuff.

[identity profile] poisonduk.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
cilantro is definitely coriander - I use loads of american cookbooks

[identity profile] wildeabandon.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Specifically, it's coriander leaf. The seeds are still referred to as coriander.

[identity profile] spacelem.livejournal.com 2010-09-30 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, it's still not as good what some threaded email clients or newsgroups were doing 10 years ago. Yes, gmail groups together connected messages, but that's all it does. Email is like a tree, with branches; gmail flattens all those the branches together into one disorganised bundle, at best ordered by date.

Labels instead of folders on the other hand, I like.
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