| Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Ken J. | 2/7/10 9:03 AM | GOOGLE: PLEASE allow CONVERSATION VIEW to be TURNED OFF!! Listen to your customers!! Conversation view is bad because it makes it very hard to find emails. I spend a lot of time looking for emails and its very frustrating. I often miss seeing n |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | BillyBobby | 2/21/10 10:09 PM | No to Gmail Conversation View - Spread the Word - Join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=6439719405&ref=mf |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 2/21/10 11:00 PM | Unfortunately, you can't turn off the "conversation view" (grouping messages based on subject) as is a fundamental part of the Gmail use-model. What you can do is use an e-mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Pocomail) with POP or IMAP with your Gmail |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | JiRo26 | 5/12/10 10:27 PM | The last post has the "that's the way it is, if you don't like it, go somewhere else" attitude that thankfully, was being replaced with people who form companies like Google with new ideas. I hope Google hasn't become too big to pay attention to it' |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | SKhan | 6/2/10 4:56 PM | it can be useful form some people. but for me it's fatal. there should be an option to turn this off. you google devs! don't you listen to your customers? |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | jesperesq | 7/24/10 10:18 PM | I hate this part of gmail. PLEASE Google, let us turn off conversation/threading. I am tired of wasting time hunting for emails. I am ready to go back to yahoo or thunderbird web based email instead. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | cek1227 | 8/11/10 2:35 PM | Funny ... this is the main reason I use gmail. It is so much more logical (to me) than the other models. However, I agree that it should be optional. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Esteaban | 8/16/10 3:12 PM | Greetings Short answer: Conversation View it's a feature (I hate it, it cost's me time and money) Long answer: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=7ebcf4867842e221&hl=en |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | edufink | 8/22/10 7:55 AM | Agree: current gmail conversation view drives me crazy!!!!! I'm considering dropping gmail. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 8/22/10 8:23 AM | Or you could just use any of a huge number of free/paid e-mail clients with your Gmail account and get any feature-set and use-model you desire. I like the CV, and it's important to access my e-mail from multiple locations every day. My wife doesn' |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | mikem1970 | 8/24/10 7:36 AM | I have to agree with the vast majority of the comments posted on this topic. If everyone I corresponded with used email logically then CV would work perfectly, however too many people hit reply rather then think about the topic of the mail to be sen |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Librarian mom | 8/25/10 1:28 PM | My two cents: I find the conversation view very frustrating. This world is made up of many, many different types of people and we all learn / think differently. Some people understand how to use the conversation view - God bless them. Other people li |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Make CV Optional | 9/7/10 2:28 PM | I second (and third, fourth, fifth...) the suggestion to Google to MAKE CONVERSATION VIEW OPTIONAL. I have suggested this to Google repeatedly over the last several years (yes, YEARS). Lots of other people have suggested it too, both in this forum an |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | jessica.bennick | 9/9/10 2:02 AM | I wonder if google bothered reading this... I HATE THIS FEATURE! I recently took over the head of an organization and many of the contact emails are incorrect. So I now have a wonderful strain of "mailerdemon" attachments to my REAL responses... Gma |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/9/10 11:01 AM | Why not delete them? |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | JellybeanMktg | 9/9/10 12:57 PM | I am so glad I googled this and found that I am not alone in hating the conversation thread! I waste so much time searching for emails and often just give up, its infuriating!!!! |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | zerokarma | 9/9/10 1:55 PM | bkc56 - Stop being a Google apologist, you defending google on this matter is ridiculous. Most people want to use Gmail because it is a web based/cloud solution to email, they don't want to start using mail clients to interact with Gmail, that sort o |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/9/10 10:41 PM | I'm not. I agree it should be an optional setting. But until it is, there are other options available and I do my best to let people know about them. If you don't want to, that's fine. But I'm still going to provide the information for those who |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Caonabo | 9/13/10 2:53 PM | Gmail have to make this option available. For example: I just erased all "sent mail" folder without thinking a week ago... and now I was looking for some mails I had it in the Ibox folder and guess what? I do not have anymore any of those mails becau |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Host and More LLC | 9/21/10 5:08 PM | I dont even care if i have the option to turn it off. i like conversation view, BUT FOR GOD SAKE give me the option to decide HOW it is sorting the emails. Why not by sender? or by day? or god forbid.... BY LABEL.. i cant even label incoming email f |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | snugthejoiner | 9/29/10 9:02 AM | I just voted that conversation view should be optional. However, when you sign up for Gmail you immediately get an email that says 'Gmail is different' and directs you to a help section called Getting Started with Gmail to check out Gmails 'unique fe |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Ken J. | 9/29/10 9:19 AM | Snug: As a professional software designer my philosophy is that well designed software should meet the needs of the clients. Gmail Conversation View DOES NOT MEET the needs of the clients. It should be optional. It's hard to calm down about this whe |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Mindstormer619 | 9/29/10 9:24 AM | It's done now... it's an option officially. But I have no idea why you guys don't like it. I just love it, Saves me time, and I can follow the thread so I can see who replied after whom. If you want to start a new conversation, I suggest trying a di |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Ken J. | 9/29/10 9:41 AM | Guess I'm allergic to cilantro. Blog indicates that we should be able to turn off the Conversation View feature/bug within a few days. This is very exciting news. If true, I'm grateful for Google's responsiveness on this issue.I anticipate buying a |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Peterfine | 9/29/10 10:40 AM | I love conversation view, but it makes life difficult for a very few large email conversations - such as when I recently sent a message separately to 6 different business contacts, starting off several different conversations that I wanted to keep be |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/29/10 10:46 AM | Here's the pointer to the announcement that the conversation view is now optional: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/turn-off-gmails-conversation-view.html#links |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Alyosha K | 9/29/10 11:47 AM | I think the 'cilantro' metaphor is inaccurate. I like cilantro, but not all the time. Threading is fantastic, when it works (which is most of the time), but annoying when it does not. The option to disable threading is great, but I won't use it beca |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | mr.eternal1 | 9/29/10 4:39 PM | This is madness. consersation view is THE best feature of gmail !!!! MADNESS, MADNESS ... i tell you |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Official Daily Music | 9/29/10 9:58 PM | Here is a video i did on youtube on how to turn off conversation view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_nQhxGjECI&hd=1 |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Official Daily Music | 9/29/10 10:04 PM | "Here is a video i did on youtube on how to turn off conversation view in Gmail" here is a shorten link to the same video http://bit.ly/OffConversation |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/29/10 10:21 PM | Is it really that hard to change the settings that you made a video? It seems it's just Settings->General->Conversation View on or off. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Official Daily Music | 9/29/10 10:22 PM | lol yes |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/29/10 10:32 PM | You're right, LOL. A 3:30 minute video on a 10 second operation, with a big off-topic on voice, plus two different advertisements that take up most of the last minute. And you didn't actually SHOW the difference between having the conversation view |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Official Daily Music | 9/29/10 10:38 PM | thanks for the advice!!! the next time i make a video i will keep all this in mind "but" i gotta pimp my stuff.... for everyone else check out the video.. if u dont like it (like @bkc56) let me know what i could do next time to make it better!! thank |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | w0000992 | 9/29/10 10:40 PM | Having to choose between ancient Chronological view and Conversation view isn't the answer. The answer to to design a good user interface so that mail is easy to work with. I believe the answer is in something along the lines of having each reply ind |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/29/10 10:47 PM | I believe the answer is in something along the lines of... Interesting, as you basically described the way Google Wave presents it's messages. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | edmaxwelljr | 9/30/10 7:07 AM | No one is addressing the practical issues raised by the conversation view: 1. Threads often change without the senders changing the subject. Gmail keeps these conversations as one even though they're no longer "conversations". 2. When you're goin |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/30/10 10:48 AM | ...you can't delete the email without deleting the conversation. False. Use the drop-down next to Reply and select "Delete this message". |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | pgerell | 9/30/10 3:00 PM | Finally! I would love the conversation view if it actually was that, a converstion view. Now it is just grouping messages with similar subjects. But not even very good at that. As an example the Re: and Fwd: prefixes are not universal. People with lo |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | atoponce | 9/30/10 7:19 PM | Now if only threads were properly displayed like Thunderbird, Evolution or Mutt. The GMail has a long way to go before it becomes my default MUA. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 9/30/10 7:41 PM | Now if only threads were properly displayed like... What do you mean "properly displayed"? |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Nathro | 10/1/10 7:54 AM | I guess everybody's different. To me conversation view is Gmail's #1 feature. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Ken J. | 10/1/10 8:40 AM | Please note: This thread is only for discussion on how to turn GMail Conversation Off. To reduce clutter, please do not leave answers here indicating that you like GMail. You can start your own thread for that if you desire. Thank you. And Great New |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Mad69Max | 10/1/10 8:44 AM | Is this "turn off" feature going to be available in companies' e-mail accounts hosted by Google ? I see it in my personal gmail account but not in my company's yet. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | SeaGear | 10/2/10 11:00 AM | and finally i can successfully turn-off my conversation view. thank you Gmail , my life is really better. Happy to know that google listens. :) thank you 100000000 times. but without sorting function & folders instead of labels ( off course we arr |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Alex1111111 | 10/11/10 1:50 AM | Maybe this is the solution: I was also frustrated by the "conversation" shit in Gmail. There is a possibility to turn this messy feature off: Click on LABELS, then on MANAGE LABELS. In the GENERAL tab, select the option CONVERSATION VIEW OFF. I am |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | cgilbert | 10/14/10 5:54 PM | My co-worker dislikes the conversation view 'feature'. I've learned to appreciate it almost all of the time. However, it doesn't seem like the option to turn the conversation view off is available yet in our corporate gmail account. I hope that th |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | jbhjfn | 10/27/10 3:12 PM | There is no way to tell if an email has been replied to or forward with the conversation view off. Nice that we can now choose but there is still a long way to go. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | Janosik | 1/16/11 7:19 AM | Thank you for allowing to disable the conversation view. When I discovered it was possible, it was like walking from the forest into a clearing. The fact that only first names are retained in the conversation view was the most troubling and inconveni |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 1/16/11 8:52 AM | May I suggest you keep an eye on the GMail blog for announcements of new stuff (like being able to turn off the conversation view): http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | sherman6 | 1/28/11 11:55 AM | I, too, dislike the conversation view and am glad to be able to turn it off in Gmail. However, I cannot turn it off for the emails that I receive on my Blackberry 8900. (This problem appeared only recently, after I performed a Blackberry software " |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | atoponce | 1/31/11 2:29 PM | Threaded view. I want to see a tree-like structure where I can easily navigate through the thread, knowing exactly who replied to who by just looking at the overview. Piling one reply on top of the other just sucks. |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | bkc56 | 1/31/11 6:11 PM | What e-mail clients or web-based providers do that now? |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | communication | 2/3/11 3:34 AM | I'm having the same problem. I turned off conversation view in gmail, then went to my blackberry, removed the accounts (in case the conversation setting was still cached or whatnot). added my gmail account(s) again, but on the blackberry they STILL g |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | chickencheyenne | 3/4/11 5:54 PM | conversation view is good if you want to trail the conversation but not if you're trying to delete part of it |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | gabelle | 3/21/11 9:44 AM | The issue here is that there is no way to prevent similar or identical subject lines from getting lumped in together inadvertantly. For instance, what are you supposed to do when two different people send you unrelated messages, both with the subjec |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | McCoogy | 3/25/11 9:11 AM | Conversations and labels is fine for light use. If you've a high volume of emails especially for business, where you need to group them and have sub groups folders, gmail is out of its depth. Then the GUI of folders works much better. Otherwise you'd |
| Re: Turn off Gmail Conversation View? | davednewjob | 3/25/11 9:56 AM | I just learned of this forum discussion; I am very happy to see that Google "saw the light" and gave users the option. |