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Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:11:52 -0000

I am slowly but surely becoming bit literate. Its hard for me

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

markhurst — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:28:39 -0000

Amen on the productivity increase from emptying the inbox.

One thing Gmail doesn't offer, that I'd invite you to try, is sending emails to a future day's task list. I can walk you through it, but www.gootodo.com does this (also described in my book "Bit Literacy")

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

SpeedNY — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:30:50 -0000

One other I'd like Gmail to add:
a delete button when you open the email by clicking the GTalk notification.
that's my standard practice to open an email, and you have to revert to your mailbox in order to delete.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Juan Lopez-Valcarcel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:31:59 -0000

Another excellent time-saver for Gmail is installing this greasemonkey script so that when you hit archive or delete on an individual email you then go to the next item NOT back to the inbox.

http://userscripts.org/scri...

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Jeff Slobotski — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:08:27 -0000

Fred-

Great point...have often thought this is a great way to not only delete back and forth responses, but keep my storage levels down....

Would be interested in hearing your other gMail tips you've picked up from Twitter...maybe in a future post?

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Scott Porad — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:26:47 -0000

I completely agree with you on this...in fact, I've thought the very same thing myself. The solution I've considered is this:

Gmail has a set of actions--send, archive, delete, etc. It would be nice if Gmail let you customize the action(s) that each button performs. That's what "Send & Archive" does: one button does two actions in a certain order.

This is along the lines of a macro in Excel.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Justin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:15:56 -0000

Google's whole "shtick" about Gmail is that they give you enough storage space and search power that you don't ever have to delete email again. That's why its not there. But I too would like that feature. I hate clutter.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:27:10 -0000

Hi Josh

Autocomplete is always a double edged sword

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

joshgrotstein — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:11:14 -0000

I share your love of Gmail, Fred...and agree about Send and Delete...AND am particularly happy to see that they just added to Labs a feature which should hopefully save me from a few of the unintended auto-complete issues I've encountered in the past): http://mail.google.com/mail...

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Mark Essel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:55:53 -0000

Hahaha

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:12:32 -0000

That's what I wanted for four years. I tried at least twice to switch but I couldn't

Then I pushed myself earlier this year and made it

The gmail interface and metaphor is so superior to outlook once you get it

The hrdest thing is collapsing convos. But I couldn't do email without them now

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

OMA — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:53:45 -0000

Or better yet, add macro capabilities, so that everybody can record a macro and make it into a clickable button.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

dredding — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:38:04 -0000

I've tried to love gmail but I just can't get used to the UI. How tough would it be to build an optional Outlook skin? With the same look and feel and keyboard shortcuts, that would be killer for millions of us.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Michael Rahmn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:29:58 -0000

Keyboard shortcuts are your friend. I have mine setup to "t" is trash (its in Labs to pick your own). Tab from the body to the send send button, hit enter then hit "t". Takes 1/10 as much time as moving your hand to the mouse and no new feature request needed. (note: for archive, it's "a", so easy to decide after you reply).

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

samfjacobs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:31:19 -0000

Ok. But there's no other underlying functionality/impact besides not
looking at it anymore. That's my question. And I'm taking it the answer is
no. Sounds good.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

reece — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:27:34 -0000

True, though I was referring to my own searching, particularly avoiding
sifting through emails that I won't ever need again.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Serge Kassardjian — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:13:03 -0000

Thanks guys. This is fantastic!

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Gerald Buckley — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:31 -0000

Thought I remembered you weighing in on this not so long ago. I must be a "white hat" pack rat then. I've saved em all (including some of the funnier spam messages) going some ways back. Storage is cheap insurance.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

Nate — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:08:25 -0000

Doesn't it seem broken that you have to do email during a Jets game? Email doesn't scale. It's too cheap for people to send and too expensive for you to manage.

Can you delegate email to a trusted assistant? Set up a whitelist of key people? Create expectations that the best way to reach you is via Twitter or blog comments?

The answer isn't "faster deleting" because your inbox will just be full again tomorrow.

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:02:28 -0000

I now use gmail as my official business account. All my email affresses point there and that's where I do all non blackberry email

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:15 -0000

That's an 'outlook' view of the world and one that I've finally left thankfully

The gmail model is search driven. Archiving gets it out of the inbox but keeps it searchable

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:31 -0000

I posted about this. I think the post uses the words 'pack rat' in it. So if you want my take on this important issue google 'avc.com "pack rat"'

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:30 -0000

A delete is metadata that google can use for all sorts of things

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:30 -0000

I already use 9gigs. If I archived everything it would be 2x that by now

Re: Gmail Feature Request: Send and Delete

fredwilson — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:54:29 -0000

Not even google wants the emails I delete ;)