Gmail Feature To Easily Get All Emails For One Person

By webbythoughts | Nov 16, 2007

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.

gmail hover

Then if you select More -> Recent Conversations:

gmail popup menu

It will show all of the emails that you have sent to or received from that person/company.

gmail conversations

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.

6 Comments so far
  1. matt November 18, 2007 11:16 am

    nice article, horrible website theme.

  2. webbythoughts November 18, 2007 2:06 pm

    Matt, I agree about the theme. It’s on my to do list for some month soon.

  3. Garga L. November 18, 2007 10:50 pm

    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.

  4. webbythoughts November 19, 2007 8:40 am

    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.

  5. Garga L. November 19, 2007 5:32 pm

    Yes! Much better and thanks for the eye-relief!

  6. iHate PCs November 20, 2007 5:26 pm

    I think this feature will be incredibly useful. Thanks for passing it along.

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