I accidentally noticed a neat feature in Gmail the other day.
If you hover over the sender of an email, you get a little pop-up. For example, hovering over the Netflix Receiving sender give me this pop-up.
Then if you select More -> Recent Conversations:
It will show all of the emails that you have sent to or received from that person/company.
Pretty cool. As you can see from the screenshot, it is simply prefilling in a search query with the email address you were hovering over as both the sender and receiver. I’m not really sure if this is a new feature or just a new for me because I never noticed it feature. Either way, I’ll be using it pretty frequently.
matt
November 18, 2007 | 11:16 am1
nice article, horrible website theme.
webbythoughts
November 18, 2007 | 2:06 pm2
Matt, I agree about the theme. It’s on my to do list for some month soon.
Garga L.
November 18, 2007 | 10:50 pm3
This is a new feature that came along with the Gmail UI update in October/November. I think it is a really nice feature and smells good too. Unlike your website theme.
webbythoughts
November 19, 2007 | 8:40 am4
Well, you all talked me into it. The new theme is called dkret2. I’ll customize it a bit someday, but for now it’s much better than the old theme that I abused.
Garga L.
November 19, 2007 | 5:32 pm5
Yes! Much better and thanks for the eye-relief!
iHate PCs
November 20, 2007 | 5:26 pm6
I think this feature will be incredibly useful. Thanks for passing it along.