 Gmail -- New Features From Me, I have some new ideas/suggestions for gmail that will make it still be |
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 Oct 1 2007, 06:19 PM
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Super Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 284 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968  |
I have some ideas/suggestions to the gmail team. Actually i even posted some of these in the suggestion link...but they are yeat to be listed. May be if many start posting such suggestions it will get listed.
QUOTE 1. Timed Messages This i guess will be useful to many people. Here you can draft a mail, schedule it to be sent at a particular time and Gmail should take care of sending messages at that particular time. This will be very useful in case of meeting commitments even if you are offline which is desirable in many cases, Sending birthday wishes, anniversaries... etc. 2. Send Business Card Selecting some or many contacts and send as a mail. This is very useful because there is no such option as to send selected mail ID's to people. Export also won't work for selected contacts. It always exports all the contacts in the book. Else it can be had like selecting some contacts and exporting which is a good feature not present now. This will be more useful if you are having groups and want to send some ID's to some people. 3. Make selected messages public This i guess is one great feature that can be introduced. It is known that there are many useful and really meaningful information is being shared by millions of people through mails. So, there could be an option provided to make selected messages public and searchable by Search Engines (Google in this case). Also mails are from humans and are being changed, reviewed etc so reliability is more in this case. This feature will be very useful in case of Image Search a lot as there are tonnes of images rolling out of mails every day. Have more ideas?? Pros -- Cons to the above ideas?? Add your comments. |
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Oct 1 2007, 06:38 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 14-September 04 From: davao city, philippines Member No.: 1,109 |
well, i guess sending business card is a very nice feature for google... like in yahoo.. they business cards, greeting cards and other card presets.. just select what the occassion is and puff! you have a cool msg to your friends...
timed messages? maybe helps a bit. |
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Oct 2 2007, 01:40 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 521 Joined: 9-February 07 Member No.: 38,519 |
I like the timed messages alot, those would definitly be helpful for those with a bad memory for birthdays
 Business cards could be helpful too I guess; however, the public emails would probably provoke even more google haters to complain about bad google privacy protection. |
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Oct 2 2007, 02:17 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 284 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
QUOTE I like the timed messages alot, those would definitly be helpful for those with a bad memory for birthdays biggrin.gif Thanks a lot...  QUOTE Business cards could be helpful too I guess; however, the public emails would probably provoke even more google haters to complain about bad google privacy protection. Ya... there are some disadvantages in making messages public, but that again depends on the discretion of the user. There is an option like that in googlegroups where the discussions can be made searchable. Also the amount of useful information in mail discussions among people be it technology, news, information etc. is very high and reliable. But what so ever i have to agree with you... if at all google thinks of doing that...it would be a mess... This post has been edited by varalu: Oct 2 2007, 02:19 PM |
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Oct 3 2007, 05:46 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 26-September 07 Member No.: 50,651 |
I am agree with u
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Oct 6 2007, 12:10 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 6-October 07 Member No.: 51,208 |
personaly, i realylike the timed emails idea. It would come in useful for as you said, people with bad memory. It would also be good fr buisnesses sending out weekl newsletters etc. gmail should do those ideas!
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Oct 8 2007, 03:07 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 284 Joined: 1-October 07 From: India Member No.: 50,968 |
Hurray.....
I have got one more idea. I just don know where i get these weird things in my head... May be because of prolonged usage of gmail. 1. Forward all selected messages. This is like you select many messages at a time and forward them to a mail ID. This again is only very specific. But we will find it very useful if it comes. Example 1: you want to include some people in the conversation that has been taking place over some time...In this case you can select all the conversations that took place and forward it to them. Example 2: Also there is one more use (i say...). This will help you in taking backups of important mails... (I know...this is a crude method). Like you can select messages and forward to someother ID of yours for backup purpose... So..start thinking. You will find new uses for this feature. And also i guess this won't be that difficult to implement. Add your suggestions. This post has been edited by varalu: Oct 8 2007, 03:08 PM |
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Oct 8 2007, 03:41 PM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 5-October 07 Member No.: 51,172 |
My favourite of those is definately the timed messages. I've wished many a time that I could set a message to be sent at a certain if, if I have to go somewhere, for instance.
My next favourite is the second one, the business or contact cards sender, if you need to send somebody, for instance a colleague, someone else's details then that would be fantastic, especially if it offered the reciever an option to add to contacts. |
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Nov 30 2007, 09:17 AM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 331 Joined: 28-August 06 Member No.: 29,048 |
I happened to open my gmail account,today. I noticed the new group chat feature , they have put up. Hadn't they put up that extra feature for chat today, that would have been the first point i would have suggested gogle.
yet, there seems to be lots of areas to be improved. Folders: Oh, i miss my 'bad' old yahoo mail. Bad luck for me, yahoo mail's spam fighter seems to be practically useless in my case. Due to heavy spamming , i had to move to gmail. Gmail had almost everything yahoo offered, and even better. But, i do miss my folders feature on yahoo. Google suggests users to use labels instead of folders to manage mails . But, i see labels as , more of a logical way to organize e-mails. Organizing my mails with yahoo's folder option provided me , a visual way to manage my mails. I had a way to put all trivial e-mails in an appropriate folder. And when i open my inbox, i got to see only those mails which were important. But in gmail, there is not such an option available yet. I hope they bring it out soon. |