I have activated Gmail’s “multiple inbox” feature and now have an inbox dedicated to all my mail that is starred. Usually I star an email to indicate that there is some action that needs to be taken on the email itself or with regards to the email’s content.

It would be nice to be able to add a personal note so that, at a glance, I would be able to tell exactly what it is that needs to be done with, or in regards to the content of, that email. I imagine that this note would be displayed below the subject line of the email/conversation in the list. This would instantly indicate the importance of the particular email/conversation because of its additional height properties in comparison to those email/conversations without notes.

I suppose I could use tags but that is assuming that there is a standard set of actions that I need to perform on any given email/conversation. In reality, that is not the case and what I see happening is a surfeit of random tags littering my tag list as each email/conversation gets attached to it, a unique tag that no other email has or will have again.

The second thing I would like to see is Tabs, so I can have multiple emails open at once, including compositions.

I see that a few others have asked for the same things, so I would just like to add my voice to the chorus.

Thank you
Dane

Define a label in the composer
Definitely something that should be in there. Why should it be necessary to go back into Sent and only then have the option of defining labels. Seems a bit counterintuitive somehow.

De-Thread/Chronological List
I see this as a fairly important function. When everything is threaded up, it’s a pain to sort through all the threads and try to isolate all inbound traffic that happened between date_a -> date_b. Plus many of my users want a simple chronological display all the time. That option doesn’t exist.

A rich(er) set of formatting tools
Even TinyMCE has a richer toolset than GMail. It may not be top of the hit parade, but it is an enhancement that should happen at some point IMO. (Example; where is strikethrough?)

Just a few thoughts. All constructively meant. Of those, scheduled/delay send is my number one “Gotta Have” because it is – quite honestly – maddening that it doesn’t exist.

GMail is incredible, I cannot for one moment imagine what I would do without it.

Regards & Thanks,
-Colin

1. Print screen-paste into the body of the email. Through much searching, I have found a workaround to this (put a shortcut to Windows clipboard on Start menu, print screen and save as clp file then convert to pdf. You still have to attach it as a pdf instead of being able to see the screen shot right there in the body of the email. If there is an easier way than this, please let me know! With Outlook, you used to be able to just print screen and paste — it was very handy!

2. Along the same lines, I would like to be able to copy part of a google docs spreadsheet and paste it directly into an email.

3. Print tasks. I know that many people want to be completely paperless, but my boss is more of a paper person and would love to be able to use the tasks feature but only if he can print it. Then he can make notes on it when he is not online.

4. Send and Delete button. I know because we have so much space that you don’t really need to delete, but there are so many things that you KNOW you are not ever going to want to see again once you send your reply and it makes me crazy to have to go into my Sent items and delete these later. Send and Delete (as an enable/disable feature so you wouldn’t have to have it if you didn’t want to) would be great!

Thanks! )
Denise

It would be amazing if we could have a COMPOSE NEW EMAIL button that created an email for us with pre configured text.. it would save me typing 5 sentences per day, 5x per day and make my life so much easier!!

Thanks

Hi Mark,

Today we will work on the following tasks.

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Please let me know if any questions

Thanks,

-Ability to rearrange the order of Labels. I want to move some up and some down, and currently this is not possible.
-Custom css for themes. I mean some of them are pretty good, but I’d just like to improve them. I.e. steel theme has an orange background in settings and I’d like to change this. Even so, with an ability to create our own templates (+background images), I’d imagine a lot of sites will spawn up, offering cool new themes.
-Folders!!! Darn it, I just want folders, real folders.
-Ability to send my comments to somewhere. Google now seems to be a monopolistic inhumane machine. There is no official way to offer your suggestions to gmail/google.

How about a special site where users can offer what they want and vote on the best suggestions? I mean in this way you would have not only great.. but fantastic product!

Thank you very much for an opportunity to express our wishes.
I just hope gmail team will consider my ideas (rearrange labes/custom themes/comment|vote site)

Alex

Often the time I want to send an email is in the wee hours of the morning since that’s when I seem to accomplish the most, but for business purposes that looks awkward. I would rather have the mail stored as a draft until the specified time comes.