On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at 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.... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com