Marking messages as unread is a quick and easy way to remind you to read a thread when you return to Gmail, but you couldn’t mark specific messages within long threads as unread — until today.
Gmail’s Labs section graduates another feature into the mainstream today, pulling offline mail into the general settings pane. It’s good news for Google Apps users without much Labs access, and it makes offline settings easier to access in Gmail.
If you wanted to change the font, size, or colour of your messages in Gmail, you normally have to do so on a mail-by-mail basis. Not so anymore, if you enable a new default text styling option from the Labs.
You may get a lot of Google Docs links emailed to you, but their URLs tell you nothing about what’s inside. A new Gmail Labs feature shows you the name and a text preview of Docs files shared via Gmail.
The latest Gmail Labs offering does something that Greasemonkey hackers (and our own Better Gmail extension) have long found useful—hide label tags from the inbox, freeing up more screen space for subject lines and message previews.
Gmail Lab’s popular Tasks feature—which integrates a to-do list with Gmail and with Google Calendars—has officially graduated from Labs and is now incorporated with Gmail by default.
Gmail Labs’ newest feature, an “Inbox Preview” on the loading screen, might just be the best thing that ever happened to email checkers working off a shaky or slow connection.
So often, writing an email involves opening a new tab to look up something, copying the link, then heading back to paste it. Gmail’s latest Labs feature consolidates that process with pop-up Google searches.
Gmail Labs adds a new feature to save time when composing messages—it can now suggest contacts based on the groups you email most often.
The newest Gmail Labs feature gives you a small red or green indicator next to contact names, aiming to help you avoid an Oops-it’s-3:30-a.m.-over-there-sorry phone call.
