"Quote selected text" changes Gmail's replying behavior and it lets you include a selection from the original message. This is especially helpful when you reply to long messages from people who don't use Gmail. Your reply will only include the necessary context, not the entire message.
This experimental feature works only when you use the keyboard shortcut for replying (r), not when you click on "Reply".
"Reply to all" changes the default replying option when you receive messages addressed to more than one person. Instead of replying only to the sender, the default option changes to "reply to all". Just make sure that your reply is really useful for everyone.
"Vacation time" is an enhancement of the vacation responder that lets you enter when you intend to go on vacation. This way, you won't have to remember to turn on the vacation responder. "While planning my own vacation, I didn't want to worry about composing, starting and stopping my vacation auto-response while I was on vacation. Call me a purist, but that defeats the whole point of being on vacation," explains Darick Tong, the author.
What other features would you like to see in Gmail Labs?
{ via Gmail Blog }
... I would like not to have to set the font each time... thank you.
ReplyDeleteMake the contacts available while off line.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteI know that in Evolution Mail (Gnome app) I can easily sync my Gmail contacts. I can only assume Thunderbird/Outlook has the same capability.
i would love to have the option of entering a calendar event all the time. if there could be a button that asked me if i wanted make this email a google calendar event it would fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if these will work in iGoogle. The most basic features, like 'reply' do not.
ReplyDeleteI would like to be able to "snooze" emails. Have Gmail hide emails for a specific time, and then let it pop into my mailbox again.
ReplyDeletei would LOVE scheduled send, just like in outlook....
ReplyDeleteHTML / Rich Text signatures
ReplyDeleteGmail Labs for Google Apps fixed.
ReplyDeleteI want fixed font. In each text window, always. I simply don't understand why this hasn't been one of the very first basic features in Gmail...
ReplyDeleteIt can't be so difficult, can it?
@mhall:
ReplyDeleteiGoogle uses a simplified version of Gmail, available at:
http://www.google.com/ig/gmailmax.
I would like to have the choice between multiple signatures.
ReplyDeleteI'd love the ability to turn Conversation view off. (i.e. the threaded view.) Several of my Apps users have complained about it, and for certain things like mailing lists it mangles the thread, making the list really difficult to read.
ReplyDelete'Reply to all' is a feature in *testing* in Gmail Labs?! LMAO!!!
ReplyDeleteNo, smartass. "Reply to all as a default option" is a feature in *testing* in Gmail Labs.
ReplyDeleteI want to be able to attach another mail.
ReplyDeleteAnd to attach a Google Doc or Spreadsheet.
Bottom Posting!
ReplyDelete"Anonymous said on September 11, 2008 3:34 PM PDT: ... I would like not to have to set the font each time... thank you."
ReplyDeleteI second that. Changing the default formatting (font, size, color, etc.) would definitely be a plus.
The thing I want most as a "reply-tweak" would be the option to reply without quoting anything from the previous message(s). It's a feature already available in the 'basic HTML' interface. Or is this possible with the first Lab feature released today?
I also like the idea of "snooze" an email, so i can't forget to reply.
ReplyDelete@gonzalo take a look at bettergmail2. it has bottom posting
ReplyDelete"Mark all as read", like in Google Reader.
ReplyDeletei'd love resizeable to:, cc: and bcc: fields (text areas)
ReplyDeleteI would like to merge gmail contacts...
ReplyDeleteGoogle Gears is now available for Safari stable. Visit gears.google.com on Safari 3.1.1 or up
ReplyDeleteThe way things are going, I'm guessing Google will soon figure out a way to detail my car for free while also seeing their stock price soar.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I would like to bring the following into the discussion. I want to see a To: field that is interactive with the sender...one that pops up an address book showing you all of your contacts. Sometimes I forget people that I want to forward an email to. At-any-rate, read my blog post here for further information.
ReplyDeletebottom posting and different signatures for different accounts.
ReplyDeletei cannot reply my gmail at all. There is javascript error while system is trying to load the richtext.
ReplyDeleteI am sooooo frustrated. I can no longer acess links within emails. I am not a computer guru, but why would igoogle do this? I liked the old system- super easy to use and better integrated with google products. I had to reset my computer to manufacturer standards. The first time I went straight to gmail the links worked again. Then when I went to igoogle...well...that was it....no links working within gmail again. I HATE the new platform- no longer a truly custom page either. this has to be fixed - and fixed so that non-techie types like me can use igoogle again!
ReplyDeletei am facing problem in gmail,whenever i login it failed to load page,on retry loading it loads.what may be the cause
ReplyDeleteGood to know about newly added features.
ReplyDeleteI get emails that need a standard reply. I cannot use autoreply as there is no filter I can use to set the auto reply for this. I would like to select multiple mails and send one reply. This reply should go to each of the mails individually. Let me know if this can be achieved by any other means.
ReplyDeleteAnybody knows what happened with this lab??? They just wiped it out??
ReplyDelete@Miliv:
ReplyDeleteYou didn't read the fine print: "Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren't quite ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time."
Here's Google's explanation:
ReplyDelete"We had to temporarily disable the 'Default reply to all' lab because
it was causing issues for people who had it enabled. Stay tuned for
more info and thank you for braving the Labs world. Remember, things
may break or disappear at any time or they may work so well that they
graduate from Labs and become regular features. "
I think people were simply having problems by accidentally sending messages to too many people. But that's their problem!
ReplyDeleteDefault send-all should be an option, not a lab. It's only natural to assume when you send a mail in a thread you send it to everyone and not just the sender.
I miss this feature. Will it come back?
ReplyDeleteI can't believe they removed it because some people had problems with the very function of that Lab. If you don't want a default 'Reply to all', just disable it!
ReplyDeleteI really really miss it.
I also really really miss it... please come back
ReplyDeleteGaaah!
ReplyDeleteGoogle! Do not punish the whole world because a few twits cannot manage "Reply to All"
Please bring it back.
Bring back reply to all, Its ruining my pointless 3 way conversations!
ReplyDeleteUgh...I was really loving the default reply all. Now, since Reply is the default, I forget to copy people and it is a pain.
ReplyDeletePlease bring it back!
So sad. No more "REPLY-ALL" now. They have disabled this great feature.
ReplyDeleteAnother vote to PLEASE BRING IT BACK!
ReplyDeleteAlso missing the Reply to all as a default option...
ReplyDeleteI think its great and especially helpful when replying to long messages to people who don't use Gmail.
ReplyDeleteRe: No more reply-all
ReplyDeleteIt was so nice to just be able to click on the big text area, before I generally forgot to copy it, then after a few months with this lab, I never remember everyone. And then it takes another two emails to get back on track, and have everyone on the same page.
I want reply-all back!! :(
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for having Reply to All back asap!
ReplyDeleteI want "reply to all" back.
ReplyDeleteI too want "reply to all" back.
ReplyDeletePlease give us back the option to reply to all by default.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see a visual clue about emails I've already replied to. I send out emails to a group of 300 people. When 26 reply in one day I need to know who I've already replied to and who I haven't without trying to correlate the long list of responses and replies for each original topic. If I can't do this, this email is worthless to me.
ReplyDeleteI saw this reply to all feature awhile ago, but now i can't find it. Seems you've done a good job at hiding it.
ReplyDeleteThe absolute dumbest aspect of gmail is that you can't reply with a standard quoted message format. Instead of
ReplyDelete---- Original Message ----
From: [address]
To: [address(es)]
Sent: [date, time]
Subject: [subject]
[email being replied to]
you get
On [date, time], [sender] wrote:
> [email being replied to]
That's unuseable for me, and the reason that I only use my gmail account with thunderbird instead of the web interface, even though I like a lot of the features in the web interface. Bummer.
o/ for bringing reply-to-all back !@#
ReplyDeleteHo and btw, @Brent212 : gmail quoting is just how I like it. I dislike Outlook quoting style you propose.
@ Jerome: So you like not being able to tell who previous emails were sent to in a chain where you were added in somewhere down the line, and you like having the quoted emails looking like crap because there's like 10 levels of inconsistent indentation with some messages using it (like ones from gmail addresses) and others not using it + screwy wrapping effects? Weird.
ReplyDeleteI still would prefer it if they gave us an option of switching it. Choice > no choice, always.
How do you do away with a feature of efficiency, like "Reply to All?" They pretty much showed their cards in rather than outsmarting the digression of it's use, they had to succumb and do away with it. Weak!
ReplyDelete@Brent212: 8 months between posts. Wow :)
ReplyDeleteI've written a small extension that allows to make outlook style replies.
ReplyDeleteThe extension does full formatting and thus the message looks decent in Gmail AND in Outlook of the recipient.
Check my blog for updates (link below)
http://office2.0project.com/blog
I can't find a way to choose how Gmail formats replies. the old system of prefixing lines from the original email with a
ReplyDelete>
was so simple and usable: the graphical replacements don't work nearly as well, partly because you can't enter them manually. But I can't find any options in Gmail for changing this - am I just being thick?