On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Rob Kampen rkampen@kampensonline.com wrote:
Gmail's web interface is very low-maintenance...
Have to take exception to this comment - the interface changes at the whim of google and I have to relearn - recently the changes have come with increasing frequency and major impact on how they operate - a quick search shows many folk are unhappy with the direction they are headed.
There are a lot of options - I'm not particularly fond of the defaults, so I set them the way I want and turn off their guessing about what I want to see.
And if you tweak the options to advance when you delete or archive, surprisingly easy to use.
My daughter is just wrapping up her doctoral thesis and the university she attends uses gmail for their mail system. The changes over the last 12 months have caused her to miss incoming mail as gmail associates incoming mail with other threads, and struggle to manage her account - she is above average intelligence...so go figure, google knows best and they are now so big, you like it, or lump it, or go elsewhere....
If you don't actually read your email I can see how things might get lost. But that's the significance of that setting to advance on archive/delete. I set it to sort newest first so I can look at each message instead of letting google guess what I wanted done with it. Showing the next message instead of going back to the index each time saves a lot of time. And the android version works approximately the same. The plus side is that you don't have to spend a lot of time organizing the archived messages. It's google - they know how to search....