snakey!

TechTalk WRLR 98.3FM

Fetch mail from IMAP? Guess not. Well hey, snake is way more important.

neilfws

I love Snake!!!!!

11hawkinst

Gina, you can use fireshot ([addons.mozilla.org]) to take screenshots of an entire webpage, rather than cut-and-pasting with the "print screen" key.

wlcrm

nice!

looks like they finally took heed to the better gmail hacks!

thanks Gina!

qrius

Haha, I love how a game of Snake is one of the new features.

SenorDunda

@geohunt.ca: I think it starts at 6PM and will be rolled out in phases, like what happened with new contacts and new interface, right?

Felipe Coury

@jasonclarke: Ditto. That's more like the justification. I agree with you: that was just a showcase of possibilities, how people may contribute on the future. Got it! Let's just hope GMail team don't rest on our popular requests and never forget to keep the Wow! features coming :-)

Thanks for pointing that out. I was wrong, thanks God! :-)

Felipe Coury

@gpzbc: OK, how Superstars are great? What will you do with it? I think the Signature stuff will just add the signature before the quotation, and not after, the way it's being added today. Am I right? That's kinda useful, but still, misses the Wow factor Google always brings. I'd rather see a signature picker and EMBEDDED IMAGES for crying out loud! :)

Don't get me wrong: I am a hack of a fan of GMail and Google stuff - I use GMail for *everything*. But - and there's always a but - I think they had so much fuzz over nothing really innovative.

GMail itself was innovative, and so have been the latest additions, like POP / IMAP / Colored Labels and such. But I don't seem to find same pattern of cleverness and innovation on those new additions... That's all...

Felipe Coury

Its 6pm pacific and I'm not seeing anything... how can I enable labs?

geohunt.ca

@Felipe Coury: I think these features were created by Google engineers that were interested in doing their own things, which is to say that they aren't representative of features that the Gmail team envisions that users are calling for. This first batch of features are basically a proof of concept of this new open Gmail development concept.

jasonclarke

Signature float baby!

ryetronics

@Felipe Coury: Yeah, you are having a bad day. Superstars is great. And Signature Tweak will be glorious. Sort of like floating signature.

Mouse Gestures could be useful.....but tough if only I only use it in gmail. It would have to be universal for me to get used to using it.

Thanks Gina.

gpzbc

Unfortunately, I fail to see usefulness on any of those additions.

Signature rotator? What about signature picker?!
Superstars? What for!?

I'd like the possibility to have embedded images alone a whole lot more.

C'mon Gmail team, you can do much better than this. Really, I found the feature set mediocre...

... but maybe it's just me having a bad day :)

Felipe Coury

Will this work for Apps as well, or just vanilla gmail?

rookcnu

Personally, I would like to see a user defined email check time. Check every X minutes or so forth. There are times I log in and my mail hasn't been checked for 45 minutes or more.

y0himba

@Felipe Coury: I have never been a fan of labels. So I guess that Superstars has the same functionality. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I will use it more.

I use a similar system of tags in OneNote 2007. All of my research and personal information is managed in a fashion similar to Superstars.

One of my biggest beefs with gmail is the signature at the bottom and so I am excited about the Signature Float via Signature Tweak.

gpzbc

@wlcrm: I was thinking the exact same thing...why do they have separate screenshots? Why not just use Fireshot?

spydrlink

@adria.richards: I don't use Greasemonkey and even I think these are not exactly lame, but useless. Why do we need 13 different ways to get to the same place? We don't.

I've been a long time fan of mouse gestures, but I'd keep Gmail's gestures turned off because I don't want it to interfere with the completely awesome FF addon that is All In One Gestures.

rabiddachshund

Its 6.45 and no new stuff i can see in Gmail yet

mkstool

It's 8:44pm here in Minneapolis so it's just rounding out to 7pm Pacific but no Gmail Labs here. I wonder if older accounts get features first like before. I've had my Gmail account since June 2004.

I'm looking forward to the quicklinks although del.icio.us has been working well for that.

Knowing how many unread starred items has been a wish of mine.

@Felipe Coury: I agree with you. After implementing so many Greasemonkey scripts on top of Gmail, these addons seem a bit "blah".

adria.richards

"Once your Gmail account is Labs-enabled"
How do I set it up to be labs-enabled?

RonnyNussbaum

@Felipe Coury: I have to agree with you here. Nothing in this list excites me. If anything it makes me think that I'm going to have to deal with conflicts arising as a result (Will better Gmail 2's features keep working properly? What happens to Remember The Milk if I repeatedly click a star in order to change it's icon?).

I would've really liked to have seen at least one real fix or a substantive feature amongst the stars and snakes...

zoomZAP

don't have it yet here

gpzbc

7:21 PST here and no new features. Is this a slow roll out?

Whoever has it enabled, can someone tell me what the link is in the address bar?

It should be something like this: [mail.google.com]

But its not that. And all of the screenshots specifically exclude the address bar :)

Anyone know what it is?

egordin

To all of you obviously too lazy to read the entire article, let me outline a few key points:

"Starting at 6PM Pacific Time tonight, Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs..."

"Google says it will start its user rollout in about an hour or so, which will continue over a span of the next few days or weeks."

THAT, my friends, is why you don't see it in your account yet, and why you don't know when you will get it. This is how Gmail rolls out all of it's new features, so this shouldn't be new to anyone. They almost NEVER release a new feature to everyone at once.

aaron8301

@Duane: Just realized that "random signature" requires that you provide it with an RSS feed to draw upon. Wasn't expecting that (although not sure what I thought the interface would be). So much for that idea until I can cobble up a static RSS file of the quotes I want to rotate through, and put them up on a server where google can see it.

[www.shakespearegeek.com]
"Now I will believe that there are unicorns..."

Duane

I picked 4 of the 13 -- keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures (be nice if these somehow start working in Google Reader!), Random Signature, and Muzzle.

[www.shakespearegeek.com]
"Now I will believe that there are unicorns...."

Duane

@aaron8301: Thank you. :)

Gina Trapani

Hey all--Like I said above, the rollout is happening over time, so I've updated this post with a closer look at how the various features work.

@Duane: Yeah, the RSS feed providing the list of random quotes is cool, but also not so easy for most people to put together on their own.

Gina Trapani

Looks great but still no email templates. :(

cbiggins

omg gina you should be so proud about having LH up on their board!

shrutis

Wow these are some cool features and many of them are going to come in handy to me, I can't for it to be rolled out to my account soon :)

Keith Dsouza

The concept of Superstars is interesting--different icons for different levels or types of "stars"; don't care much for the "cycle through" process for selection... I'd rather see a right-click bring up a menu, much like hover does on other items (like on the sender's or a contact's name).

GlennA

Wouldn't it be better if Google got onto making the "New" interface available for UK English users? At the moment I have to use annoying US English otherwise I get the old interface we all used three years ago...

meowsqueak

@joshnunn: well-said about Superstars

gpzbc

Superstars and Quicklinks FTW! I want to use stars for messages I want to come back to (save for later) and for a to-do list of emails I have to respond to. I've tried labelling messages to save for later, but you can't label an individual message in a thread, so you have to trawl the thread to remember why you saved it - with new star options, I can yellow-star messages to respond to and blue-star the messages I just want to highlight. Plus labelling is a longer process than just hitting the star.

Quicklinks could just be mighty useful.

joshnunn

@gina - any chance of a how to on creating quote RSS feeds? I've had a look at google, but nothing leaps out.

libwolf

@RonnyNussbaum:
I have labs enabled on my account and you don't have to do anything special. Just check under the Settings section. If you have labs it will be to the far right.

Brian

Love the new features. Most of them are pretty useless, but I already started using the quicklinks.

I would really love the new "hide unread count" if it could be applied only to my spam folder...

Yab

I'm with Felipe Coury here. while reading through the list of features, I think my biggest reaction to one or two of them was "meh."

OX4

@Chinmay:
I am using Gmail Redesigned and it worked fine. Once I enabled the features in the settings section it added the Labs icon to the top.

Brian

If you are using any skins for Gmail.. You won't see the feature. You need to disable skins to see if Labs has been enabled for you..

Chinmay

got it!

gpzbc

I'm not seeing it in Google Apps yet though.

gpzbc

@Brian: I somehow didn't get it first time whe I had Redesigned skin disabled, I saw extra tab "Labs" in settings. I have switched back to Redesigned, and see everything again. Weird!

Chinmay

Been playing with a few of the features and the Superstars might actually be useful. Like Gina said, it's not sortable or searchable but is good as just a quick visual indicator.The only thing is that GTDInbox puts the action label on all starred items.
Hide unread count is good, and the count still is there in a tooltip when you hover. Quick link is great, and now I only have myself to blame for the Keyboard Shortcuts not being easy to remember, since I made them up!

adam51172

Keyboard shortcuts was needed and is awesome. Snake is a time waster, but fun when you get bored. I like the different starring options, as they provide a visual guide when you are looking at all mail.

I would like to see a Lab option to expand the number of results on a search page from 20 per page to a customizable amount, like 50 or 100.

DownloadSquad claims that eventually Google Labs will open up to developers, which would be nice and would allow a lot of customizability, which addons like Better Gmail provide, to be directly incorporated into Gmail.

This could be the start of something grand!

nka

@cbiggins: Since it looks like they incorporate features that have been greasemonkey'd in, maybe it's time to try that on our own. How diff would it be? Trap the rightclick menu and add a few sub-menus. Find a way to conveniently get the templates without having to change the GM script when you add new ones. Hmmmm.

Thanks, Gina. This was an awesome little bit of news at the end of a generally cr*ppy day.

(sighing wistfully) Someday they'll let me break accidentally joined conversations. (Hmmm, wonder if GM could ...)

Jim (The Canuck One)

I just discovered that for those of who did not get this enabled yet, there's a way to "push" this to happen ;)

Simply add a "?labs=1" (without the quotes of course) to the end of your default gmail url. That should make it [mail.google.com]

mskadu

I love the Superstars. Of all all of these "experiments," the Superstars are my favorites. Somehow I don't mind cycling through them either.

digital_man

ooooh! finally the signature thingy i requested! it is so much more usefull if your sig appears above your reply instead of below!

*bows to the powers of google*

tristan_bethe

Still no folders. Oh well.

Zaslowe

i think gmail should mix labels and folders (adding a label-hierarchy with sublabels, and make it possible to drag-and-drop messages to labels) so users could use them both ways.

Asszem

FYI, I think Better GMail stopped working with this new, Labs version. Everytime I compose a new message, it adds a few lines to the top, check out this screencast:

[screencast.com]

Felipe Coury

Another slice added to the ever increasing complexity pyramidal stack of web app.

It would be interesting to see if Google can publish some data about a per person % usage time series of this features.

nikrox

Of all the additions I think superstars is the best and I have already used it to start "starring" my messages. The way I see it as being useful is that I already have a bunch of filters that label certain emails and now I can add a star based on an action or status of the email, for example say one of my filter's is "work" and I realize my boss has sent a request but I need to get info from some one else I can use the exclamation star or even using the check star to motivate me completing tasks from the 25 plus emails that are sent back and forth to me almost everyday. While it is not a problem for me clicking through a right click menu would be nice, as well as a search by star option.

guyfromtrinidad

...OK, I just had a new tab that said "Tasks" to the right of "Labs" and it gave me these options:

1. create a task when you star an item
2. create a task when you label an item _____ (pick label)
3. default due date for tasks is: (today, tomorrow, etc)
4. search my calendar when creating tasks
5. search my contacts when creating tasks

...now the "Tasks" tab is gone. Weird.

xxdesmus

I'm seeing "Tasks" but it doesn't seem to actually work. Anyone else seeing this?

xxdesmus

I'd like gmail to add my signature only the first time/first n times I email someone.

bbrian1

I definitely got 150 in Snakey. Makes me feel special.

Pertaining to the topic, a lot of these are nice features, but I don't really have a use for them. :/ Must be nice for avid GMail users though.

Geoff

I guess these features are somewhat useful for me but I would have much rather seen something like contacts and tasks that would sync with Outlook through their Google Sync application or delayed send.

Maybe this is just the start and bigger things are coming!

Honest to God though, I just don't see the infatuation that people seem to have with folders. Folders would fundamentally change the way that Gmail works and I am in no hurry to go back to them myself. I love being able to have multiple labels for each message. The built in Gmail search or Google Desktop Search turns up what I am looking for faster than I could ever browse through a folder.

Label + Archive = Folders

Yes, I know that label lists can become very long this way. Mine is over 125 labels long. Thing is, my label box has been collapsed for a very long time. I deal with messages in my inbox. I delete or label and archive when done and I use search if I need it again. Easy.

dualsub2006

I enabled the keyboard shortcuts, but they're not working. I keep hitting c to compose, but it doesn't do anything.

Am I missing something?

kirnkorner2001

Seriously though, any word on if this will work in Google Apps?

Darren W.

@xxdesmus:

That sounds like the tab for the Remember the Milk Gmail extension. It's a to-do list which I highly recommend.

ryetronics

Has anyone figured out yet if it will be enabled for Google Apps for your Domain? I use my domain e-mail regularly, and would hate to have to go back to normal Gmail to use it.

Dexter_VanderVander

I like seeing eclectic batches of features.

I hope some more elementary needs will be tended to, too: I find Arial hard to use so I overwrote the CSS with Verdana, but recently, that hasn't been working. :( Being able to customize column width easier would also be a plus. Context on the former:

» [forums.mozillazine.org]

Torley

Okay, so this is the official High Scores list for Snakey, right?

110

That was on my first game! And I'm not even a gamer!

Sugar Daddy

I'm still hoping for a setting/userscript to let me move my labels to the end of a message's subject. I dislike the broken left-hand edge that the subject column gets since labels are of varying length. Oh well.

dashifen

hi all! i've discovered that you can enable by going to here: [mail.google.com]
then hit settings > labs, to select what you want.(=

i figured it out backwards from the labs Help page.

miachenyze

I can also see a new "Task" option which has options to create new tasks when an email is starred. Anyone else getting that ?

mail2vks

What workarounds or kluges are there for sorting gmail messages by subject or author alphabetically?...

donwarnersaklad

After spotting a way of turning off labs in the help page, i reversed it and it turned it on:

Try this if labs isn't enabled: [mail.google.com]

frstie

:( i do not have it yet!!! i wanna have it. how long does google take to enable this?

ChambrasWeed

still no HTML signatures? WTF?

el_bob

"160" in Old Snakey BOO YAH!!!!

guyfromtrinidad

@all the haters:
the best feature in this set: they're all optional.
like everything on lifehacker, use it if it works for you.
or don't.
and then deal with it.

fatalbush

I hope Gmail mouse gestures don't interfere with the mouse gestures that Opera/Firefox use...

Sqube

Gmail is on the slide. Still in Beta, and then these lukewarm 'features' are nervously sneaked through in 'Labs'. With all their resources Google still seem unable to launch anything with confidence. I don't want to have to hack Gmail, add Greasemonkey scripts or any other bizarre workarounds - I want Gmail to take on board the fact that people have had to hack just to get obvious and basic functionality.

This, and the fuss being made over Firefox 3 (woohoo it now only robs 500mb of memory!) and the Iphone 2.0 (omg - GPS! on a phone!!!) really shows the power of hype and spin. These new 'features' are distractions - they miss the point, it is as if the developers never read any of the incredible feedback available to them for free. Look at the Lifehacker Gmail wishlists - it's all there. The Gizmodo iphone list shows just how limitied the iphone 1.0 was. But of course the market cannot have all of this, it has to be patronised and strung along with stupid fluff...

Tactical-Incineration-Development

thats al nice and funny but i'm still waiting for the feature which would finally make gmail complete for me: per account signatures - please!!

ma_xyz

I seem to have gotten this already (for some reason I always get these features early). I'm not sure how useful I'll find some of these features, but I'm intrigued by the concept of testing them (and others in the future) out in Labs.

Ninjeff

@Ninjeff: Uh, actually, I have had the features since about 10:30 Eastern last night so if you just got them you are a little late to the party.

dualsub2006

@Felipe Coury: I don't know if I'll use Superstars that much, but I'm already thinking of some GTD-related possibilities. E. g., Regular yellow star for something I must do or answer, blue star for «waiting for» someone else's action, ! for ultra-priority stuff, etc. It's just a matter of defining some categories and, most important (and hard), sticking to them.
Another useful feature -- sorry, ultra-geeks! -- is the signature on top. I, like most people I know, reply on top, and now I'm already sparing a few seconds in the cut-paste.
But in one thing I absolutely agree with you: signature picker should be on the list.

dedalusjmmr

@xxdesmus: Sooo, you 'Forgot The Milk' didn't you? :D

GlennA

@fatalbush:
I believe it's more disappointment than "hating". Three years and I still can't natively convert an email into a calendar event? Puh-leaze. It's about priorities and focused effort on high value functionality.

Randy S

I gots it. :P

th3gh05t

@ xxdesmus: That suspiciously sounds like the Remember the Milk addon for Firefox, not one of the new Gmail features.

jxhndxe

@JordanW: You just keep clicking the star until you see the one you want. I think a little ajax "drop-down and select" feature would work on that.

jxhndxe

Oh, and why oh why can't I have a setting to only add people to the contact list whom I chose (instead of anyone I reply to)? Also, why am I limited to deleting 50 contacts at a time? Thanks to the stupid settings of adding every person I reply to into my address book, it piles up quick!

CapitalC

How about some stuff which should REALLY be in Google Mail... like "keep the same damned font for every email I send instead of defaulting back to that shitty Times New Roman"? Or maybe the ability to mask or change the "sender" field when we're using a secondary email address within the account? I don't want clients having my home email address dammit!

C'mon Google, get on the ball and address some of the feature requests on your own forums.

CapitalC

Somehow I can't figure out how to add anything other than the default "star" to a message. Tips?

Also -- anyone know of a way to merge conversations? I recently got 50 replies to a baby announcement, of which 40 went into the correct conversation and 10 remained "orphans". I'd love to tell Gmail to incorporate the orphans into the correct conversation, but it seems impossible. Tips?

JordanW

Gmail's lack of a Contact Manager is what's still keeping my address book on Yahoo. At least give me the option not to add every email address that pops through my inbox into the Contact List!

tedp

Yes, but when will they ever update the GoogleTalk client?? The Gmail web-based chat has accrued tons of cool features, and the client hasn't been updated in like a year!

Cyfun

@mail2vks: Weren't you using Remember the Milk for GMail???

dedalusjmmr

These feature add-ons aren't really part of the Gmail team's "official" upgrades to Gmail. These are things that other Googlers came up with in there 20% time on other projects. See this article for the details: [www.techcrunch.com]

I'd like to get paid for spending 20% of my time developing stuff like snakey! ;-)

Michael Kizer

These features are cute gimmicks, but I'd love to see something more useful.

Has anyone mashed up Gmail with OpenCalais or some other tagging tools? It would be great if Google made it easy to perform text mining on your emails in batch mode and write back tags or other annotations. I suppose you can do it off line, using POP or IMAP to download everything, but that defeats the benefit of storing everything in the cloud.

DanielTunkelang

Quick Links - A cinch to use, could come in handy.

Superstars - A drop down list would work better than clicking to cycle through the choices.

Snakey - Yea! :D

lisact

These are great but it would really be cool to have the gmail interface module like igoogle pages. This way you could drag certain sections in order to change the layout to your liking.

Also wouldn't mind getting the list of labels as a seperate button next to more actions with the ability to select more then on label at a time.

Would also like to disable certain features from showing up on the page (google talk, quick contacts...).

vahju

I got 150 pts on Snakey, but man, that thing moves fast after that!

Juice Box Hero

@Joe Clark: When it comes to "standards", Google has pretty much always gone its own way (out to "change the world" and all). Of course, actual coding ability has little to do with policy decisions--half the world "top-posts"; and if Gmail didn't top-post, then I probably wouldn't use it**: the most recent stuff always belongs at the top because the default starting point for almost everything is at the top and, of course, no one wants to waste their time wading down through a whole mess of stuff they've already seen to get to the newest stuff right? :D (Well, apparently half the world DOES want to.)

(**Nah, I'd still use it--I'd just think they're stupid to do it any other way but the way that I think is right. :D)

GlennA

In yet another of the ways in which Google can't code worth shit, not only does Gmail still top-post by default, it permits top-posting assholes to place their signature on top of the uselessly forwarded text - and also deems the actual standard for signaure separation, return-dash-dash-space-return, a bug you can opt out of.

Joe Clark

Thats awesome they posted the wish list from the gmail features wishlist post!
It goes to show that our voices do count (in this case comments), and they actually listen to what their consumers want. A rarity for a big company this day and age.

graffiksguru

Wow... I can't see one single "feature" that would interest me in the least.

infmom

I just realized something by zooming out really far!! The snake game!! It's Gmail's logo!!!!!

math_boy

the anticipation of some meaningful additions (expanded address book, synchronization top of my list) makes these items all the more dissapointing.

MixedDock27

Well, the good thing--possibly the best thing--about these particular new features is that they can be enabled/disabled for those who want/don't want them, thereby either enlarging your Gmail startup download or not--as each user desires. We could use some more features like that. :D

GlennA

Hey these are great features by gmail team.I like the random signature and take break.These things are what i am expecting from the gmail and the remaining new stuffs were even gud ...

vidyadhariiit

@dualsub2006: I reallydon't know when I got them. I haven't been on GMail since before they were released. I just checked it this morning when I got to work (and after seeing the Lifehacker post) and there they were. I assume I got them in the first wave because I've received the last three or four updates right away.

Ninjeff

@Joe Clark: I use gmail because they DO top-post. I hate scrolling through old messages.

gpzbc

@dedalusjmmr: Oh yes i am, did not notice it the first time. thanks.

mail2vks

Hey, all you gmail fans, help me out here! I tried using Gmail for my business but had to go back to Thunderbird because Gmail insists on displaying my gmail address along with my "myname@mybiz.com" address in the header. That's a deal breaker for me, and I think for anyone who has a business. I've searched here and Ask MeFi but I haven't found a way to mask/remove it. Anybody know of one? Thanks in advance!

wordwhiz

some of those things are cool, like the superstars..

BUT!

one critical feature of gmail missing is the ability to send from a different user account, not just the "on behalf of" but being able to supply SMTP information for it.!

klumsy

I just noticed a while ago that snakey is in the shape of a giant envolope So that makes it mail related, But also fun.

atomic1fire

I like gamil, esp. g-apps for domains. Hard to gripe about free + easy.

YET - it would be great to have a function to MERGE CONVERSATIONS. This seems like an easy one, to my mind. Maybe not...

leMel

I think that gmail and other google apps could have better features (like I said on another post, I would like the ability to quick switch "identities" to be able to switch from one google account to another without doing login/logout, and other gmail related that I saw already posted here)

But hey I like the way they work!
It appears that most of the time they work just for fun, and best things comes for fun :-D
Who cares if it's still in beta, if they continue to work on new features I'll be happy.
Speaking of gmail, people complains about folders, well labels and quick links could easily replace folders, especially the latter, think about it

luca.c81

I liked the superstars thingie. I hope it becomes a searchable feature and I can find all messages with ! next to them.

surfmadpig

Makes me all warm inside to know that my feature was handled...

JiveMasterT

Mouse gestures are really cool.

Quick links entries extend out of their designated region and looks very ugly.

Superstars are too many to get confused though don't know about how others will use.

I think superstars should be scrapped.

Snakey - another way to waste time online. I love it.

Finally ,I can't seem to find the purpose of fixed width fonts.

@Michael Kizer: Thankyou ,I was little skeptical if these are official Google upgrades.

Yeah the best feature is that they are all optional.

TechnoLaziness

Quick Links is the only feature that I've found to be really useful so far (for me, of course). I've been storing my Saved Searches in my browser's bookmarks since the Gmail 2 was implemented; now I can put them into Quick Links--available wherever I login to Gmail.

GlennA

The "on behalf of" thing is a quirk of the way Outlook handles Gmail's mail headers... so it's a combination of Outlook and Gmail that causes the problem.

Last I checked (a couple of months ago) there was no way around it without using hosted Google services.

JordanW

None of these blow me away. It's always about the feature you personally need isn't it. I'm waiting for embedded style sheet support. The lack of this is killing me.

HenryLollerskater

if you don't have it yet, type this;
[mail.google.com]

DjSnipSnip

[mail.google.com]

My account is now labs enabled. Time to play around.

spudder

mine has updated already. features dont seem all too well. just using the muzzle helps with the contact list

DominiqueFantazmo

Some of these are really cool, and I love love love the idea of having saed searches.

But damn, when are they going to fix the contacts? When I email Arrington to call him a d-bag, I don't necessarily want him added to my contacts, knaamean?

madthoughts

I just checked and I have no Labs in settings yet. I am little geeky excited about this since greasemonkey scripts are not yet working with Firefox 3. Especially looking forward to the email addict setting. Wondering how much I'll actually use it though.

Now, when do we get Google Toolbar for Firefox 3?

Snake makes me a bit nostalgic for my first Commodore 64.

Having open development has so much potential for future innovation.

rachelk

Played around with some of them and disabled all of them, except for the custom date format.

Anyone getting a lot of gmail system errors lately?

ez13

i don't get the point of most of those "tweaks." I just want to be able to change the reply-to address in my replies and change my signature based on the e-mail address the original e-mail was sent to.

and what about contact management? I know Google likes to have fun but it seems more like time wasting to me. Hopefully they will open the "Labs" up to some useful tweaks in the future.

PhynaeusClaw

Looks like the SuperStars isn't visible when setting up filters.

CarrollPeafowl

Feature request...
To be able to add and remove labels from an email with out having to open it first. Maybe by right click option or mouse over popup choice.

Just my 2 cents for what it is worth. Oh, love what you are doing, keep up the good work.

jrblack10

i just added ?labs=1 to my gmail URL, and i became labs-enabled. lot easier than waiting!

ch3t

Just a thought, but wouldn't it be possible to use the new 'Quick Links' feature to replicate folders? A saved search for email with tag 'folderA' = /folderA, View of search for email with tags 'folderA & subfolder1' = /folderA/subfolder1'. It wouldn't be quite as convenient as expanding / contracting drop-downs, but should give pretty similar functionality - and you'd still be able to have the same items in multiple 'locations' if they had multiple tags.

chappel

OK, I just woke up, and now I have labs tab. I really like those new features, especially the option to choose your shortcuts. Now I use R to mark message as read, instead of l. Too bad that sneaks don't work with Gmail - Redesigned skin :( And I like the idea of mouse gestures, it's now more easier to navigate trough gmail... Great job Gmail team

ChristopherAnaxo

How do you enable Labs? I am looking all over the place, but I don't see where to do it.

petercubic

Were I a Gmail dev, Email Addict would be replaced with a link to Workrave. Much more useful.

Pikadude No. 1

Whoa! This looks great. Looks like someone in Google also uses Better Gmail :) I still don't have "labs" tab, but I hope it will appear soon, so that I can test it... Great post Gina!

ChristopherAnaxo

Any idea if they are going to turn this on for Apps users too? I have an Apps account for work and would love these tweaks.

honig

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SumitraMoth

I don't need folders per say but if the gmail team could do a collapsable hierarchy of labels that would be awesome. Right now I have labels for all the classes I take which leads to quite a long list. If I could have all my Psych classes collapse down to a single Psych label I would be ever most grateful.

ArmyDecoy

when do we get mail-trends? and the label selector?

awazaredo