Comments on: Moved to GMail http://www.truk.com/ramble/2007/04/08/moved-to-gmail/ truk tends to ramble on and on about stuff Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:03:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jeff http://www.truk.com/ramble/2007/04/08/moved-to-gmail/#comment-7377 Jeff Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:03:17 +0000 http://www.truk.com/ramble/?p=76#comment-7377 ps - I like the new blog theme. ps - I like the new blog theme.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.truk.com/ramble/2007/04/08/moved-to-gmail/#comment-7376 Jeff Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:02:33 +0000 http://www.truk.com/ramble/?p=76#comment-7376 Cool. Welcome to Gmail! I've been using it exclusively for about three years now and I love it for the same reasons you mention--especially the deep searching, and "conversation" email threading (after you've used the conversations for a while, it's hard to imagine using email any other way). Also, in case you haven't stumbled onto them yet, Gmail supports a wide range of boolean operators. Want to see every email (and thus every "conversation"--with your replies) someone sent you? just search: from:someboday@emailaddress.com Want to restrict that search to only those emails labeled "work" just add: label:work from:someboday@emailaddress.com <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190" rel="nofollow">You can find a full list of operators here.</a> The filter capabilities are also very useful. For example, I have all ingoing AND outgoing emails to known clients automatically tag themselves with the client name using filters. I also have filters set for newsletters and the like. Enjoy! Cool. Welcome to Gmail!

I’ve been using it exclusively for about three years now and I love it for the same reasons you mention–especially the deep searching, and “conversation” email threading (after you’ve used the conversations for a while, it’s hard to imagine using email any other way).

Also, in case you haven’t stumbled onto them yet, Gmail supports a wide range of boolean operators. Want to see every email (and thus every “conversation”–with your replies) someone sent you? just search:
from:someboday@emailaddress.com

Want to restrict that search to only those emails labeled “work” just add:
label:work from:someboday@emailaddress.com

You can find a full list of operators here.

The filter capabilities are also very useful. For example, I have all ingoing AND outgoing emails to known clients automatically tag themselves with the client name using filters. I also have filters set for newsletters and the like.

Enjoy!

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