| Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Paladin_JKC | 12/10/11 4:49 AM | Explain your issue in full detail here: I want the ability to easily sort my email by sender, date, or subject. If you do not provide this feature soon I will drop Gmail and move on to another email provider that does provide this feature. Please |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gouty - TC Gmail & Chrome Rising Star! | 12/10/11 4:55 AM | Who said we don't have the feature? Try the advance searching feature. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Paladin_JKC | 12/10/11 5:07 AM | I want a three separate buttons or equivalent at the top of the list of messages that I can click to sort by subject, date, or name. This is so much easier than trying to do an advanced search-give me a break. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gouty - TC Gmail & Chrome Rising Star! | 12/10/11 5:14 AM | Well that is not possible in Gmail. And the advance searching technology is not that much tough. Suppose you want to search a mail of a...@gmail.com or a mail which was arrived between 2/11/2011 to 3/11/2011 or a mail containing the subject name as S |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | cynthia.schutte | 1/6/12 2:58 AM | I agree with Paladin_JKC. You don't always know what you are looking for and by selecting an option to arrange by: date/from/to helps. Obviously like in OUTLOOK where you have the "Arrange by" option on top of your messages. When you want to put your |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | klompje | 1/21/12 1:08 AM | The problem with searching instead of sorting for me is that it shows only 20 results.I'm in the process of cleaning up my gmail and sorting by sender would speed things up considerably.Now I have to go through about 5 times more pages to delete afte |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | mommarhonda7 | 3/19/12 3:24 PM | I agree. I need a mail program that has the buttons at the top of the columns to sort your mail. Why doesn't gmail have this? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thienedits | 4/29/12 8:47 PM | Yep and what if you have thousands of messages because you never cleaned out your inbox. You would have to do multiple search for who knows how many senders and spam emails you get whereas with one click of a sort by sender you can group and categori |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | megalosplayer | 5/8/12 4:21 AM | Give me a break. I want to sort by sender, date, subject at the top of my mail, like yahoo and hotmail. I dont understand why GMAIL can't do this. I'm not gonna remember who sent me email and if i don't remember i wont be able to sort by that name |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | megalosplayer | 5/8/12 4:21 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | DeaM1 | 5/19/12 11:10 AM | I totally agree. For one of the most advanced email platforms around, I cannot believe that this option is not present. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | ccarots | 6/9/12 10:18 AM | I also agree, it is ludicrous you are not allowed to sort your email by anything you want. Subject, date, sender. The upgrades to gmail pushed out recently are horribly lacking in user consideration. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 6/12/12 6:06 PM | I really dont get hard is it for gmail to add the option of sorting out messages by name or date. I tried advanced search but it still missed emails. It would be a lot easier if gmail added the sort button feature. They finally added the option to re |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | SteveOhio | 6/14/12 5:29 AM | I agree, the more gmail updates the less user friendly it becomes. And I thought Yahoo was bad, guess you dont realize how good you got it till you try something else. The goal should be to achieve more with less clicks not more functions with addi |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | rbussino | 6/15/12 10:35 AM | I don't find the advanced searching feature very helpful for the issue of sorting my mail. I've noticed that Google is going the way of most big businesses that start out as being "all about the customer" and morph into being "all about the company a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | only.me | 6/20/12 12:51 PM | Could somebody from Google please explain WHY Google is so resistant to adding these features? Don't tell me about Advanced Search. I am the customer, and I am telling you that Advanced Search does not meet my needs. Don't try to tell me otherwise. S |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/20/12 1:13 PM | http://only.me, By customer do you mean you are paying for GMail? Do what thousands (perhaps millions) do and use a third party specifically for sorting (Thunderbird perhaps) and that way you have the best of both worlds. Gmail is different. Always was a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | rbussino | 6/20/12 2:29 PM | Am I paying for GMail? You bet I am! Everytime I get a targeted advertisement in my GMail then I'm paying for GMail. Just because GMail doesn't bill me outright doesn't mean I'm not paying for it. They collect data on me and target me with ads that t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | p6.thompson | 6/20/12 11:25 PM | Great customer service: "Try the advance searching feature." How about this: "Try figuring out why Google's proprietary email is infinitely less popular than just about everything else Google makes." (Hint: it's in that first 'Try' quote thingy |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/21/12 5:02 AM | p6, You really need to check before making statements. http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statistics.htm I am going to be very cheeky and paste two of the para's from the article here. "The big three are Microsoft's Hotmail (now |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | only.me | 6/29/12 7:04 AM | No, I don't pay (money) for Gmail. Although, as rbussino notes, Google profits from my use of Gmail. And I am free to (at great inconvenience) take my business elsewhere. However, Google has succeeded by providing free applications that are so useful |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | irvinm | 6/29/12 9:21 AM | Check this out - it isn't quite as easy as a sort button but it does the trick: http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/good_day_wi/higgins-hints-Sort-Gmail-By-Sender-2011 It is definitely helpful when trying to clean out old junk mail. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | froggy wife | 7/7/12 10:22 AM | Or just labels at the top of each column, which can be clicked on to sort by that feature! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | GrumpyOldBear | 7/16/12 9:20 AM | Rules of good business RULE 1 THE CUSTOMER COMES FIRST RULE 2 THE CUSTOMER COMES FIRST RULE 3 THE CUSTOMER COMES FIRST UNLESS YOU AR GOOGLE IT SEEMS |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 7/16/12 10:15 AM | Add me to the list of dissatisfied users. I recently started using GMail after years of using other email systems (Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail) and find the GMail interface lacking in the basic functionality of being able to sort messages. It seems suc |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | flowerjade | 7/16/12 7:00 PM | I believe millions of us want to sort, plus search! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Flibberdigibbit1 | 7/20/12 12:57 AM | Most excellent reply, p6.thompson. I too am sick and tired of Google resorting to fall-back, so-called "customer service" boiler plate answers to true customer concerns. And we are not talking about "random," "crazy" gripes from a few government cons |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Flibberdigibbit1 | 7/20/12 12:58 AM | Most excellent reply, p6.thompson. I, too am sick and tired of Google resorting to fall-back, so-called "customer service" boiler plate answers to true customer concerns. And we are not talking about "random," "crazy" gripes from a few government con |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Flibberdigibbit1 | 7/20/12 1:00 AM | Most excellent reply, p6.thompson. I, too am sick and tired of Google resorting to fall-back, so-called "customer service" boiler plate answers to true customer concerns. And we are not talking about "random," "crazy" gripes from a few government con |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wiggin1202 | 7/22/12 7:23 AM | EXACTLY RIGHT ON! THIS is an ACIENT |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wiggin1202 | 7/22/12 7:25 AM | EXACTLY - THIS IS AN ANCIENT feature! I had it 15 years ago - Google employees are too young to remember the AMAZING OUTLOOK MAIL. Also when did "you've got mail/new mail sounds" (l995--become a big program-desktop-TOOLBAR-activate-download!!! No wo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 7/22/12 8:51 AM | wiggin2012, Cannot understand why you were posting when the Tour was on but that's your choice. Outlook is not and has never been (that I know of) been an emails system. It is a third party app which you can still use to access almost any email sys |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | brookec | 8/4/12 1:58 PM | I AGREE too. It is not that difficult to listen to Gmail users who are saying we would appreciate the option to organize our emails by date... or sender... or subject or or ... OPTIONS are important to Gmail Users.Other mail services offer this so we |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 8/4/12 3:45 PM | It actually is there by using a third part such as Outlook or Thunderbird but I did try to explain why I prefer Gmail as it isin https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/rbpJIPKpsY0/zepQDMcbYggJ Peculiar thing is the other email systems (H |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | cwbysatx | 8/4/12 4:11 PM | Google email has suddenly become the most user un-friendly mail server there is! Instead of my new mail showing up on top I have to open "all mail" to find my recent email. Google has screwed this up so bad, I am giving up and going to yahoo or hot |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 8/4/12 6:20 PM | cwbysatx, Do you mean you do not see your Inbox when you open Gmail? Yours is the first report of this so would it be possible to explain in more detail, this would help us help others who may have the same problem. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gugawn | 8/6/12 8:07 AM | it beggars belief that google cannot or will not offer a sort feature and don't fall in the old trap of looking at stats without looking at causality i only have a gmail account because i have an android phone (ie I don't use it except as my "semi ju |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 8/10/12 7:23 PM | anyone look at the http://outlook.com?? Its hotmail converting to a new email. I looked at and and made the switch from gmail. It was simple switching my information from gmail to http://outlook.com. At least we http://outlook.com, can use the features we are looking for |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | brucehibbert | 8/12/12 7:48 PM | Add me to the list! I want to be able to SORT by columns, i.e. sender, subject, title, or date. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | kfinnn | 8/22/12 3:13 PM | NO - not search. I don't want to search, I want to SORT by clicking on column headers. I want to be able to click once for ascending and again for descending, just like every other email program out there. Judging from the large numbers replying to t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | kfinnn | 8/22/12 3:22 PM | Now, after reading all the posts I see that Google just wants to do it their way and seem to have no clue about customer service. That's fine. I also have the option to not use Google's products. Best way to state your opinion. Bye GMail, Google+, an |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | leeman90210 | 9/3/12 8:59 AM | I was with Exchange, switched the whole (small) office to the paid version of enterprise google apps: calendar, contacts, drive, gmail etc. loved it at first but one common complaint with the staff, no sort function for email. Then the conversation |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | dwtees | 9/3/12 4:28 PM | The absence of a sort feature is a serious fault in an otherwise high quality email system. Not having this is a disservice to your email community. Suggest you correct this fault rather than continuing to invest time and money in "so-called" innovat |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Vanessa Shaver | 9/25/12 10:04 AM | So... I search and then I want to move into a folder, but the only option is "Inbox" Honestly, this is infuriating, because even if you use the advanced search feature as you have suggested, it does not allow you to organize your inbox. I have over 1 |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | TechnoThoughts | 10/9/12 8:41 PM | Outlook can do it - How does Google step up to match this feature? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | kalyan ratakonda | 10/11/12 8:34 AM | Totally agree. I gave the same problem nd very much frustrated... Google has become so much complicated that its forgetting the basic needs of an end user. may be taking us for granted. :-() |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | laliedog | 10/18/12 5:48 PM | I totally agree. Why not give your 'Fans of Gmail' this feature? It does not make any sense. Even my antiquated work email allows me to sort alphabetically, by date, by subject, by sender. C'mon Google. This feature is way more important to us than y |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | only.me | 10/20/12 1:02 PM | I have switched to Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail). It has both search and sort. It is not perfect by any means, but I think it is a step up from Gmail. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 10/21/12 4:03 PM | I also switched to http://outlook.com. Its great and has these features. No need to waste time searching for an email |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Cyberheater | 11/1/12 8:52 AM | All this while I thought it was just me - incompetent, and unable to find the SORT function that SURELY must exist in GMail! Thank you, forum, for restoring a little bit of my self-esteem. As for Google, are you guys for real? Are you seriously que |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | merlinskis | 11/8/12 2:41 PM | I fully agree if you do not provide some way yo sort emails by sender, date, subject ecept i am dropping Gmail this is unacceptable. Merlin |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Kimmerdan | 11/9/12 6:38 AM | Seriously? Sorting by a header is just about the most basic function one can ask for in an email application. Google, get your act together! I, too, will dump Google if this feature is not added very soon! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | D16842 | 11/9/12 4:15 PM | Only.me, why would it be a major headache to switch to another client? Like many out there. I too migrated from from Outlook to GMail. But after a year of putting up with a myriad of missing features and functions, I switched back. Without question I |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Nanny2six | 11/12/12 11:21 AM | Windows 7, Gmail - email. Norton latest version Internet Explorer 9 Any other email program I have used I have been able to click above the top of the column - whether that was alphabetize by date, name, subject and it would be done in the blink of |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Lamidjan | 11/13/12 9:13 PM | yup yup -WHY WHY sort bottommmmmmssss is very very very important just like u have computer and there is no " EXIT " bottom. ( hey just end task at task maneger) hahahhahahahah or SHUTDOWN ( hey just plug off the computer power ) hahahah more |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 11/17/12 1:55 AM | This really is not a solution. It seems Google are quite arrogant about stuff like this, we don't need it in the googleplex so you mortals don't either. Sorry to say this but Google are becoming like that well known company who are named after a f |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Joesponder | 11/18/12 6:40 AM | I agree with all comments. Many times I have wanted to sort my messages for various needs. I miss that outlook feature and will be switching out very soon. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 11/19/12 7:51 PM | conclusion - use gmail as storage mail ONLY and use another YAHOO apps to access it. where is the "Google Develop Team" answer ? WOW that is briliant ide for develop gmail. emmh mybe mail google is very simple and below standard -- they limited enggi |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 11/20/12 6:55 PM | Well, there you have it, straight from Mr. Elder Adviser himself - we don't pay; Gmail makes no money off us; so go somewhere else if you don't like it ! I'm not using Gmail because it's free. I needed another email service after changing internet |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | ccoffey3131 | 11/21/12 7:48 PM | I guess we all know what the C stands for now! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The Voice Of Wisdom | 11/22/12 6:00 AM | Wow, Google hipsters refuse to add essential features to their software. "We tested Gmail ourselves, Bob sent a message to Jane, Jack sent a message to Jane, so Jane had two messages. Why would you need to sort two messages?" Rent a brain. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The Voice Of Wisdom | 11/22/12 6:03 AM | What's new? "We tested Gmail ourselves. It's perfect. See, Bob and Jack each sent a message to Jane, so she has two messages. And who needs to sort two messages?" Rent a brain. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 11/22/12 9:25 PM | sorry ur fren only 3 people in the world (ohhhh.... my god ) people work on email - or world of IT actualy receive 100 - 200 mail EVERY DAY mybe more. just think how many facebooks email ur receive every day/week. fact no 1 if google mail is standar |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 11/22/12 9:36 PM | and one thing . google partners come to our shcoools to offerring for free . WOW ahh not WOW , because it is bussines i support u and u supoort us. pure bussniss man nad girl. even "demo program " or open source program. Actualy YOU pay them for usin |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 11/22/12 9:44 PM | remember virus for apple million of apple computer / laptop infected. the virus just open web site and user force to click them. the virus maker make $ 10.000 every day, because what they click is "google adv" littery google pay for the virus maker |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | AlexMensing | 11/23/12 2:32 PM | This one little feature that used to be so easy is gone. I can't sort my mail. Sadly, this is going to be the reason for me changing from gmail to something else. Sorting mail is a very basic function. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al1971 | 11/26/12 5:46 AM | You should create buttons instead of expecting people to type in something. It's far more easier and it doesn't need explaining. Typing in code is like MS-DOS, destined to die in favor of easier windows. Google: Wake Up. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Leonard Cremer | 11/26/12 6:42 AM | I cannot believe that this thread has been going on for so long and no one from Google is responding ;( The is basic email functionality and one of the things that one really needs... I started moving from Outlook but I am now seriously considering m |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 11/26/12 8:27 AM | Is it possible to filter out replies from certain users, such as "gmailschool" |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Steven Matherne | 11/28/12 8:37 PM | It shows, thedavegray, that this issue is having an affect on people of all levels. I never chime in on blogs, but this has been bugging me from day one and to ignore the tip of the iceburg (this thread) may backfire on Google. Gee, what would happen |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al1971 | 11/29/12 5:44 AM | Try Outlook.com. I just transferred over. The only good thing about gmail is the search level once you get the hang of the code. But it's really really prehistoric and you better be a good typist. Too much work for too little time...thanks Steve. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Kaisra Osman | 11/29/12 11:36 AM | Dear Google, At first I thought it was just me that could not figure out how to sort mail by name, date, read, unread etc. I just did not have time to search for a solution. Finally after alot of pain and waste of my valuable time, I decided I wou |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CldSmk | 12/5/12 10:13 AM | You can sort by sender on many other mail programs and some people actually use this feature. You can criticize them all you want and tell them that they are "doing it wrong", but it doesn't change the fact that some people need/want/would like to be |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Jay Crawford | 12/5/12 2:36 PM | As many others have said, we don't want a search tool to do what Outlook and other mail programs have being doing for over a decade. All we want is the ability to sort our mail. Other than to say "this feature is not available on Gmail", what does Go |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | John Winton | 12/6/12 2:42 AM | Why should Google care about what customers think? Their shareholders are happy. Clearly a sort facility is not important to them only to customers!! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Sue Rooney | 12/6/12 9:33 AM | I agree, gmail needs to have the ability to sort by sender, date, and subject! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CldSmk | 12/6/12 12:33 PM | What really boggles my mind is that one of the basic functions of a computer is the ability to sort data and put it in some kind of order. Google seems to get "date order", but not much else. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Joe Tuszynski | 12/6/12 7:26 PM | sme here. Tha tis one of the easiest ways to manage email. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 12/7/12 12:44 AM | Thing is, once people realise how easy it is to use Thunderbird or Windows Live clients to view/manage their Gmail they may well start doing so. Bonus is that then you don't have to look at the adverts Google kindly place on the right of the browser |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Lynn Sloan | 12/7/12 8:01 AM | I just really realized that I could not sort in gmail. This is most helpful when you need to clean out your inbox. It would seem that since outlook has had this feature forever that google would figure it out. Is anybody listening? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Zen Man | 12/7/12 10:48 AM | Yes GMAIL designers, Please allow us to sort by Sender, Date and Subject. Thank you |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | rich44 | 12/9/12 4:31 PM | S O R T.............................. Is that word being blocked at Google? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 12/9/12 5:39 PM | this "product forum" but i thing there is no one google in here. just like usualy "forum" hahah the best way to get ittention just let the "shareholder know about this " spreat this news to everyone ia m 100 % sure after they know about this = boomm |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Nanny2six | 12/10/12 9:40 AM | I agree and would suggest that we all could send a message on the same day to twitter and/or facebook with this problem. I bet this would multiply by thousands in no time. It may not make them budge but what fun we can have with causing possible he |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al Fisher | 12/11/12 6:18 AM | The link doesn't work. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | dutch jamaican | 12/11/12 6:30 AM | I agree, please add the sort feature to gmail. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CJM313 | 12/12/12 6:58 AM | Yes, just copied my inbox from http://bluebottle.com to Gmail for space reasons. Big mistake! Can't believe there's no proper sort facility! Worse, sincs I misunderstoodle the option to "Leave copy on server" (Which server? I assumed it referred to the Goog |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CldSmk | 12/12/12 1:00 PM | Finding the Firefox Thunderbird recommendation to be a good work-around....oh the irony. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Tammy J Rizzo | 12/14/12 9:58 AM | That is ridiculous. I can NOT believe that sorting email is not possible for Google. Every other webmail provider I've looked at offers the ability to sort the messages by sender, or date, or subject, and either ascending OR descending, and actua |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Nicholas Vanaria | 12/14/12 5:33 PM | From what I can see, the programmers at Google just aren't intelligent enough to figure out how to actually get their program to sort by date without screwing up other things. And for THAT SOLE REASON, Yahoo will always be a far superior e-mail appl |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 12/15/12 8:59 AM | Until Google decides to address the problem: "..blast them away quickly using the "emails" button. But couldn't Google have called it sort email, or see all emails?" Here's a help page to sort gmail by sender name: http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/g |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | raysurx2010 | 12/16/12 7:04 PM | Add me to the list! Very dissatisfied with Gmail! Why do they make it so cumbersome! I think I'm going back to yahoo! Sorry! Gmail support doesn't give a crap! I guess they don't understand the rule of good busines that has been explained above t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Tom VanderWeele | 12/18/12 7:23 AM | Horrible |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | katyannebc | 12/18/12 3:44 PM | I just went through this thread hoping that google customer service had listened to people and addressed the problem being discussed here. Unfortunately, but predictably they have not...I have 19,0000 emails in my Gmail, which just keeps accummulatin |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 12/19/12 2:53 AM | Download Mozilla Thunderbird and set it up with your gmail account - takes two mins. You can then sort to your hearts content. Wonder if there was a Facebook page about this problem that Google would then listen? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | GM100 | 12/19/12 11:22 AM | Isn't the "sorting" capability a basic function that all emails software should have to begin with? Going through "Advanced Search"? Why make things so complicated and not user friendly? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 12/19/12 3:46 PM | just make it FAIR for the "google development team" and for others Can some one familiar with facebook CREAT facebook and let see how many people agree/like to gmail have "basic function email" or dislike = "gmail no need have basic function email" |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:10 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:12 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:14 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:17 PM | Thanks Skorpytoo, this is the closest thing to being helpful that I have found. It is amazing that google can't figure this out. thank you again. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:19 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 12/20/12 6:25 PM | to Skorpytoo , thank you |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 12/21/12 12:04 AM | i am sorry to all u who have stock in google.inc i know my way is 100% right to get intention from development team remember went youtube crash just 1 hour == google claim lose $ 28 B . ( not million wowwww ) and instalnly all development team goo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 12/21/12 12:58 AM | Agreed. I wish you could ignore users and then he would be top of the list. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | mailsorting | 12/21/12 12:24 PM | I couldn't agree more. Sorting mail in Gmail is really clunky. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | ShawnL72 | 12/21/12 11:32 PM | Gmail has caught up? I know you just quoted that, but I reply because Gmail didn't really catch up to anything for any desire for Gmail itself. Android devices with Google Play require you to setup a Gmail account. Therefore, any numbers representing |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Tiffany Few | 12/26/12 6:33 AM | In the last year, I needed to establish a private work/personal email and choose Gmail purely because of their reputation. I thought I was going get online and find that I was just looking on the wrong place for this feature. There is also some sort |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Judi Orell | 12/27/12 9:29 AM | The advanced search is not what I need. I use this account for a lot of vendor notifications, coupons, etc., and need the ability to sort by sender. This is one of the things holding me back from changing our household email to the gmail account. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Aric Agmon | 12/30/12 3:00 PM | I cannot agree more with all previous posters - sorting mail by date, subject, sender and/or receiver is a very basic feature that needs to be in any mail program, and is indeed found in most any mail program, with Gmail being a glaring exception. Do |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Tiffany Jimenez | 12/30/12 5:53 PM | |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | JAYNES1967 | 12/30/12 6:47 PM | Thank you so much for the video. It's going to be so much easier to clean out my inbox now! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | JAYNES1967 | 12/30/12 6:49 PM | TO: SKORPYTOO: Thank you so much for the video and instructions on how to sort gmail by sender. It's going to be so much easier to clean out my inbox now! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | merlinskis | 12/31/12 2:10 PM | You are so right. Emails from the very beginning have had this feature. I will give Gmail till April to add this feature and then it is good bye they act like they are the only game in town. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Jerrac | 1/1/13 6:34 AM | Being able to sort all messages in your inbox, or in a label, by subject, sender, etc, is a useful feature. There's good reason for nearly every other email program out there having that feature. Advanced Search is inadequet. Yes, I can use Thunderbi |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al1971 | 1/1/13 1:04 PM | Hello? Is this Google? May I speak to Customer Service please?Hi, Google customer service, how may I help you?Hi, my name is Ali. I think you should be able to sort email.Really? I don't think so.OK then good bye.Goodbye. Thanks for using Google - by |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Geert Vink | 1/2/13 2:56 AM | Yes, we (a bussiness) pay, thousands a year for advertisement and email. How about putting all the free advises of youre customers into the application. The "as is" statement goes for "freeware", not for paying customers.. All the negative energie/t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/3/13 11:30 AM | Fast forward to 2013 - yet another person looking for a sort. Is this really 2013 and gmail doesn't have a way to sort messages? I find this.... just unbelievable, but there it is! Will be switching back to live mail. Between "labels" and this, the e |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | WaikUpNSmellThaKawphy | 1/4/13 10:28 PM | Just because "1 billion people" use it, doesn't mean they are happy with it! Since when does popularity = truth??? If that were the case, we'd all still believe that the earth was FLAT. doh! The usage is high because it's one of the FEW OPTIONS that |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | google-google-google...why-so-arrogant? | 1/5/13 8:44 AM | Dude, have you studied business management? Or at least, know anything about business? Don't say only those who pay are your customers. It's pretty dumb. Just my 2 cents. ^_~ |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | abitfrustrated1 | 1/5/13 5:28 PM | Google,Can you simply make this type of feature an option or user preference for those of us that want to see the subject and date for sorting? I understand the idea is to be "different" but this is more like being difficult. This issue should be a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | John Friday | 1/8/13 8:04 AM | Could this be because you are forced to get a gmail account when you get an Android phone? Oh so they are bulking up numbers because of one OS, while people do not realistically like the actual gmail product as much as other email clients. Gmail has |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/8/13 8:21 AM | John, Would you please explain which Outlook you are referring to? Is this the 3rd party computer based app which you use to access Gmail and lesser email services or the new Windows Outlook email service which resembles Hotmail and Microsoft would |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/8/13 8:40 AM | C man, Why are you so defensive? People are asking for a simple sort feature. That's all. There's no need to get all torch and pitchfork over it. Simple features that have been around since we decided to INVENT computers for menial tasks like sorting |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 1/8/13 8:52 AM | The C Man... Do you work for Google? It should not be too much to ask that gmail sorts emails like every other email program. Maybe a Facebook page might make google sit up and listen, |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/8/13 9:03 AM | Terra, If I wanted Sort incorporated into an email account I would use another email service. If I needed Sort I would use Thunderbird as I backup all emails for safety. So far I have never needed to do anything I cannot do better using Search. Emai |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/8/13 9:07 AM | thedavegray, I don't work for Google. If Gmail was the same as every other email program I would look for something different. If you are in this forum it proves you use Gmail so Google cannot be getting it that wrong or you would be using another p |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/8/13 9:30 AM | All that being in this forum (and this thread in particular) proves is that folks are looking for a feature they want in the program. I, like many others, simply thought it was something I was overlooking. I mean, gosh, it never occured to me that I |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 1/8/13 10:28 AM | Amen, Terra Saylor. This guy sounds like he's all of 14 years old....... absolutely no sense of customer relations, and probably no more computer knowledge than you or I. If he is, indeed, an appointed representative of Google, they need to replace |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/8/13 2:12 PM | Skorpyotoo, 77 years old with a brain that still functions and from what I have seen of 14 year old kids they would find their way around Gmail without a problem without needing sort. I think that giving users a way of using something is pretty goo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 1/8/13 2:24 PM | Thanks, C-Man. But you still don't get it.............it's not about you. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | John Friday | 1/8/13 2:32 PM | This has been explained to you. ANDROID PHONES. Gmail is nothing without it. I guess doing what MOST of the people on here would like as a feature is too much for Google apologists. Fine. I will continue to use gmail for what it is, a back up email |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Fuzzy | 1/8/13 4:01 PM | Not quite. Google Play requires a Google account. A Gmail account can be created with the same name, but is not required. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/8/13 6:09 PM | John, To add to Fuzzy's response when you start an Android phone you can skip setting up an email and then use a Google account to log into Play. This allows you to add apps and becomes the master account for the phone as it is the first one logged |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/9/13 5:46 AM | Well C Man, it's not about being the same, or different, or anything at all! It's about convenience and what the customers are asking for. There is a basic level of functionality that is expected of an email program. It's expected to be able to send |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | GrumpyOldBear | 1/9/13 6:06 AM | Well said I work for a software company (not Google) and we constantly try to improve our software by listening to and reacting to what our customers want. that way we get better. isnt that a GOOD idea huh? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 6:23 AM | Terra, Thanks for the compliment. At 77 years of age to be described as a brat is a compliment to my youthful looks and outlook on life although my parents were very far from being beggars. One of the reasons I dislike folders is you need so many c |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/9/13 7:07 AM | Well, it's pretty desperate to suggest that adding a way to sort email would introduce serious vulnerabilities to the system. That's a cop out argument and if that's where you have taken it, there's just no reasoning with you. However, your attempt a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 1/9/13 7:35 AM | The C Man. Sorry but if you created lots of duplicates using folders then that is down to pilot error. Anyway, it should be possible to allow the user to display the data in whatever order they wish, regardless of folders/labels. I've been a soft |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 8:02 AM | thedavegray, I'm not against it, So far there are a couple things that cannot be done just as well using Search such as reversing the date order but depending on what I look for I have no difficulty in going to the earliest and using the arrows to t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 1/9/13 8:20 AM | The C Man, It maybe that there is some good functionality in search, but nobody here is arguing for that to be removed, people are only asking for extra features that would help them get their daily work done more efficiently. You appeared earlier |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/9/13 8:24 AM | Who said we even wanted that level of precision? The reason I was looking for it was so that I could sort by name, and then hightlight all the mails from an individual and move them into that individual's folder section by section based on the sort. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CldSmk | 1/9/13 8:30 AM | The C Man- We don't really give a crap about how you do things unless you are going to sort out all the junk email for us. A very quick way to manage your email is to sort by sender and then blast away all of the messages that you're not interested i |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 8:48 AM | Gmail doesn't have folders so I'm not sure how Sort is going to help you with moving or copying anything to a folder that doesn't exist. I believe I explained how you can find all the emails from any address but here goes again: - From the Inbox h |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 8:52 AM | Cld Smk, When and if you try what I have suggested take a look at the Search bar and you will find the search term that has been used. You can now add additional search terms to the end of this (leave a space between each) and delete all using this. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | GrumpyOldBear | 1/9/13 9:11 AM | |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/9/13 9:15 AM | C man - Gmail's labels can be configured to emulate folder functionality. But *how* I want to use a sort function is frankly, none of your darn beeswax. Please stop. Really - you've made your point - you don't want a sort function for reasons unknown |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 1/9/13 9:24 AM | I tried your suggestion. However, when I searched for a person email, all the emails that were involved in the email showed up. For example, the email I searched for, found other emails that both of us received from another person. I rather sort emai |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 9:27 AM | Terra, The folder email was not specifically addressed to you. It is a standard warning as many add a Label and then think they have added it to a folder and delete the email. They then come to the forum asking why Google deleted it or how to find i |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 9:29 AM | trikortret, Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean by "both of us". If you explain I'll try working out the search terms for you. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 1/9/13 10:07 AM | Here's an example. Say person A sent person B and me an email a few weeks ago in the same thread. Later I decide to look up all the emails from person B for a particular email. When I research it your way, I see all the emails from person B and the e |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 10:21 AM | By rights only the ones in any conversation that are specific to your Search Term will be expanded in each thread plus your own responses as these are expanded by default. You could turn off Conversation View which should then only result in the spec |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | rich44 | 1/9/13 11:55 AM | Please look up the words "search" and "sort". |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al1971 | 1/9/13 12:53 PM | In my humble opinion, any business should reach out to their customers and see what they want. It would be great if Google had a system where people could go and have some sort of a wish list where others could vote on. Now that they don't, I started |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | shorty82 | 1/9/13 12:57 PM | Actually, Al1971, Gmail does have just that kind of system. On the suggestion page people can make new suggestions and vote on popular ones. I recommend everybody wanting sort features suggest it there. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 1/9/13 3:20 PM | C-Man; what you are suggesting to readers now is essentially what the page that I posted 12/15 says; http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/good_day_wi/higgins-hints-Sort-Gmail-By-Sender-2012 Do you realize that HAD YOU GIVEN THIS INFO AT FIRST complaint, |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | trikotret | 1/9/13 4:47 PM | I turned off conversation view. When I did a search for Person B emails, I still got other peoples emails who sent person B and myself. In that case. It didn't work. Even if it did work. You are asking the user to go to settings, select conversation |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Nick Costantini | 1/9/13 4:49 PM | I agreeAdvanced filter takes way more time than the sort feature in Outlook. Plus I was looking for an email from somebody and couldn't remember his last name, but knew it started with a "K". Sorting by name would have made it much easier. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/9/13 4:58 PM | Nick, If you had started the Search with From:N the suggestions below the search box would have probably given you a list of the senders whose names begin with n. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Jim Hayman | 1/17/13 1:34 AM | Get it sorted Google, this interface is the worst of the lot in terms of user friendliness. Changing from Hotmail was a mistake! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Lorena Contreraz | 1/18/13 1:08 PM | I'm with you. I'm looking into hotmail. Goodbye gmail |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Marcio Pina | 1/21/13 8:21 AM | Paladin_JKC has a good point. The easy sorting feature in ANY standard email is a very handy tool to have. I don't get how gmail missed that. No point in going around in circles to sort things through search tool. Maybe it is the case of " we |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | max stock | 1/21/13 1:36 PM | Damn, so nice I've discovered this nonsense before moving 12 years of work emails into gmail :) Do I pay for gmail? Yes I do pay for extra storage. But google keeps screwing all the way. They've removed lots of useful features with google docs as wel |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | chiefig | 1/21/13 3:54 PM | Been on Gmail 5 days, going back to Outlook. Can't sort, what a shame, I thought I could live with gmail, guess not. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/21/13 10:34 PM | Max, It's still there. You open the doc and use the Share button and you can also choose to limit the share so it is private between those you share with. You cannot share another person's Documents without their permission. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/21/13 10:37 PM | chiefig, Do you mean the new Microsoft domain of Outlook.com or Outlook as in the computer based app? You can use that or Thunderbird (no doubt others as well) to run your Gmail just as you can use it to run most other email systems. |
| Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | kimhouseofthor | 1/22/13 8:36 AM | I totally agree that gmail needs to make sorting by date easier. Even when you look in advanced search (which does not seem to be available on android app), there is no "date" option. It is almost impossible to uind emails by date. I receive hundreds |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | kimhouseofthor | 1/22/13 8:40 AM | Sorting by date, sender, subjecT is not intuitive or easy in Gmail . Outlook is so much better. Even in advanced search, there is no specific search by date option. You have to guesses hoe to do it. The advanced search option is not available on Goo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 1/23/13 8:40 AM | After all this, it doesn't appear that Gmail is going to bother themselves to upgrade their service, so everyone should be reminded that AOL mail service is free........ you do not have to subscribe to AOL to use it and, as far as I know, it has all |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/23/13 1:43 PM | Skorpytoo, I gave the same advice somewhere back in this thread and in a couple others. Didn't know somebody had bothered to write up what should have been common sense. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | r2d2-7 | 1/25/13 6:34 AM | After wasting 20 - 30 minutes of my precious time reading through all of these e-mails, bottom line for me:1. I'm glad I found out before I got in too deep into gmail - WILL NOT use for my business account - no functionality for business. My webmail |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/25/13 7:23 AM | r2d2-7, That is what comes of being a robot: The inability to move outside your original programming. As a 77 year old human I have no difficulty with it as it actually conforms with the filing system of my youth. I suggest you return yourself und |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | r2d2-7 | 1/25/13 10:59 AM | If I had nothing else to do with my time, I'd probably do what you're doing to stay stimulated. But let's not forget, this isn't really about the DELIVERY SYSTEM, it's about the MAIL. My 5 year old gets excited when the truck pulls up, just like |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/26/13 11:55 AM | r2d2-7, In the time it took you to write your complaints you could have learned how to use Gmail. Evidently you don't have something better to do and as for stimulation - the day you stop learning is the time you stop stimulating your brain cells. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | max stock | 1/26/13 3:31 PM | Google removed this-------->"Resettable doc URL: For a doc set to anyone with a link, you can reset the doc’s URL at anytime, which helps you better control who has access to your doc."http://googledocs.blogspot.cz/2010/06/sharing-in-google-docs-just |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Geert Vink | 1/28/13 2:27 AM | If there's no (real) answer then don't give one. I'm not interested in personal and biological assumptions.label:uselessmail "is:unsubscribed" |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/28/13 5:39 AM | Geert, So pleased you worked out how to use search reference terms with regard to labels. If you have no (real) question then it would be impossible to answer it. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | dakota980 | 1/28/13 9:42 PM | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) Gmail is different. Excellent! Does it mean 'Gmail doesn't care what is good for users, and what has been good for years within lots of e-mail systems'? So why did they develop Gmail itself? I have an ide |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/28/13 11:36 PM | dakota, It cares. It found a different way that 450,000,000 users seem to like. Why haven't I added the normal + sign to the number of users? To account for the few that complain about the difference and want the same system as the majority of other |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 1/29/13 12:19 AM | That's a complete nonsense post! Just picking one of your bullet points "Everyone Drives Identical cars"... Of course not, but they expect them to do the basics functionality of a car, like forwards and backwards. You posts have been rubbished on |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 12:32 AM | thedavegray, I love nonsense. It's a British thing like sarcasm. If you ever get the chance find an old Michael Bentine program "It's a Square World". |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 12:40 AM | Can I ask that all those stamping their feet because there is no Sort do it as a Line Dance. Suggestions for the music and caller will be gratefully accepted. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 1/29/13 12:40 AM | Nonsense questions (like "Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender", which isn't even a question) deserve nonsense answers. User base doesn't grow to 450 million by providing what nobody wants. People who don't like the interface can use a clie |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 1/29/13 11:22 AM | I am actually reverting to snail-mail, to send this to Google HG.: The below is a response to the hundreds of emails asking how to sort gmails..People came here, as did I, not to belittle gmail, but simply to get advice. Yet, the first response from |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 12:14 PM | Skorpytoo, Please show where I said anything like that. I have advised the use of third party systems still using Gmail to achieve what you want. You may not like what I say but there is definitely no need to invent anything like that. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 1/29/13 1:28 PM | You are right, KeithR is the one who advised to just go somewhere else. However, you are extremely insulting and unprofessional if you are, in fact, a Google representative. Insulting the userbase isn't going to grow that alleged 450mil "users". |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | NotThatHard | 1/29/13 2:24 PM | Hover over the sender's name. When the popup appears, click on "Emails". That will show all of the emails from that sender. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 1/29/13 5:09 PM | aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh just stop debate with "Eldes Advisor" sorry that i must post something. yup before this i say that i not post some any more. ( because what i post is "direct hit - to kill" hahahahha) fact nomber 1: Gmail is history -- sl |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 6:32 PM | Terra, Evidently you did not read the thread from the start. I and others gave all the help possible in using Labels and Search to more than equal (my opinion) Sort. I'll get around to writing a blog or something at some stage and keep pointing to i |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 6:37 PM | NotThatHard, That's one of the pieces of advice I give but to addition to your advice (this was given before) if you do it from the Contacts screen you have alphabetic sorting. About the only thing you cannot do is reverse the date order so earlies |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 1/29/13 6:43 PM | gmailschool, Please check my profile to see my age, it's on the about page. Microsoft now has two versions of Outlook. One is Outlook.com which is taking over from Hotmail and the other is Outlook which is part of the Office suite and a third party |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 2/1/13 12:00 PM | Why on earth do you want to write a blog about why folks who want to have a sort function should use search instead? It seems to me like you just want to see yourself type. You are not being at all helpful in this thread, and should just walk away. T |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/1/13 4:37 PM | Terra, I'm sorry you think I am wasting my time because a few have actually learned from some of the stuff I have written. Once again, if you want Sort you can have it as an addition by using Outlook or Thunderbird or similar. The blog would be fo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | medvito | 2/4/13 1:16 PM | Look at this posting and you will maybe understand why so many thousands and thousands of people hate Google. Instead of Google's response being something like "we understand that our users are asking for this feature and we will add it" it's ration |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | medvito | 2/4/13 1:29 PM | Gmailschool - spell check much??? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Andrew Abrams | 2/5/13 8:10 AM | Cman, you've set a really poor example for your company in this forum. You have an overwhelming amount of people asking for a feature, and you're arguing with them about it. Good customer service, whether you intend to or not, you say I'm sorry, that |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Michael Donley | 2/5/13 9:28 AM | Add me to the list of frustrated users who would like a simple sort function. I have thousands of emails, most worthy of trashing, but it's too clunky to clean them out. So, Google gets to dedicate storage for them because Gmail does not make it eas |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/5/13 4:28 PM | Andrew, You really should check on what Top Contributors are. We are volunteers. No company statements. The company well knows what some users want and has been asked for since 2004 probably but I don't think they have any intention of being turned |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/5/13 4:30 PM | Michael, Describe what you are trying to do an maybe we can help you do it. I dump 3,000 emails a week on average and the remainder is sorted by Label and cross referenced making it easier to find. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Aust247 | 2/5/13 6:54 PM | Google either lacks the competence or desire to develope this tool. It been 10 years now... hopeless. I bet Google CEO Larry Page uses Microsoft Outlook as his own product is substandard |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/6/13 6:07 AM | Aust247, Why wouldn't Larry use Outlook or for that matter Thunderbird? He would still be using Gmail. There is no reason to build something to sort when Microsoft and Mozilla have done it already. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Al1971 | 2/6/13 11:01 AM | Honourable C Man, We innocent gmail customers respect your steadfast support for gmail and google and stand by your side in defending all good that google has brought to the world - no seriously, I mean it. But in this case if I were to make an analo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/6/13 2:21 PM | Al, You are so correct in your analogy. Outlook is the Salt and Thunderbird the pepper. I'm sure there are other condiments available. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/6/13 4:51 PM | Al... I understand the point you were trying to make with your analogy - the restaurateur is ignoring the wishes of his customers when they are asking for something simple, conveniently available elsewhere. I don't see either "sort" or "search" as |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/6/13 5:25 PM | Ironsides, You really don't understand, Google makes the alternates available by allowing you to use alternates. Try it with Hotmail or Yahoo and see what happens when you forward them to other email services. Yahoo want you to pay for the right to |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/6/13 6:41 PM | Elder guy Once again you make my point - look at what I wrote. Is there any place where I mentioned that the meal should be changed? No, just how I choose to eat what is delivered. You say Gmail allows "alternates" and say the others don't do so |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/6/13 6:52 PM | Oops... should have written "from IT to IS" .... the point being that listening and providing services is more important than focussing on technology for technology's sake. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/6/13 8:17 PM | Hi Google, OK, I like gmail a lot, but not being able to sort by date or name is cumbersome and a poorly designed interface. I just spent a good hour organizing my email. I notice you have a lot of comments, so I'm not alone. Any plan to change t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/6/13 10:50 PM | Andrew, the facts are that half a dozen or even 10,000 users is not an "overwhelming" number of Gmail users. There are around 400 million active Gmail accounts and Google knows exactly how they are used because it's a web application and they can mo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/6/13 11:37 PM | Beverley, Sorting by name is there automatically by opening Contacts (sorted alphabetically), hovering over the name to bring up the card, click on the word Emails and it's done. Now you have that you will see the search parameters used so add a spa |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Zen Man | 2/7/13 2:27 AM | Hi All, Sorting emails is not available. Yes, you can filter an individuals emails if they are in Gmail contacts but you can't sort emails by name, subject etc. and You can sort Gmail Contacts by name - Wow! I think this is good! It would be very nic |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Salman2013 | 2/7/13 9:05 AM | January 2013 ...... and still Google failed to add the simplest feature for the convenience of its users. While most of the hired people at Google are PHD's, highly unlikely the users are even close to that. It make more business sense to me to allo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/7/13 9:10 AM | CMan, Actually, with the exception of the inability to sort, I like gmail a lot. I like the option Google provides of integrating various applications with one user name. And, yes, Ironsides' comment about a standard user option--"sort" rather tha |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/7/13 9:15 AM | Salman, Most of the users are not PHD's and there arer 450,000,000 of them who seem to manage quite nicely and possibly prefer it the way it is. I rely on my intelligence to use it and have had no formal training in computer sciences. If you can us |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/7/13 9:17 AM | Beverley, Sort by name is not needed as I explained. Did you try my suggestion of using the Contact list? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 2/7/13 10:32 AM | There are 450 million users of Gmail at the last count. There are less than 250 people posting on this thread. An "overwhelming number" would be about 350+ million users. Google will always go with changes that mean the most benefit for the most peo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/7/13 2:08 PM | Cman, Mea culpa. I didn't know this contact function was available. Many thanks for pointing me to that and the Google advanced search page, which I've bookmarked. I am proficient in Boolean search, but having search language specific to Google is |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/7/13 2:25 PM | wdurham, I maintain that this functionality should have been included in the original design; however, instead of meeting my comments with rudeness, CMan has been kind enough to provide me, politely, with information of which I was not aware. I am c |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/7/13 3:01 PM | Beverley, Thanks for coming back and accepting the advice so magnanimously. Many others have accused me of being a Google fan boy and seemingly refused to even attempt using my advice. Whether or not Search is faster I know not but by using additio |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Trooper48 | 2/8/13 4:44 PM | Okay, perhaps we have a semantic thing going here as the answers by CMan say to use contacts, hover over the name, click on email, and then be able to see all emails by that contact. So after three steps, I still see only the emails from that conta |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/8/13 5:26 PM | Trooper, I don't whine. I give advice. If you sorted mail by one name you would get the same result. What's the difference if the result is the same? Want them down to an individual date then you add it to the search bar as I explained to Beverley. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/8/13 6:39 PM | On Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:44:25 UTC+11, Trooper48 wrote: ... |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Trooper48 | 2/8/13 6:53 PM | CMan 1. "Many others have accused me of being a Google fan boy and seemingly refused to even attempt using my advice." Sounds like a whine to me. Many here are saying that you continually flog the search thing without understanding what they are |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Trooper48 | 2/8/13 7:08 PM | 1 What about emails from people not in your contacts ..... I don't add every sender to my contacts. Do you? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/8/13 10:38 PM | If you click on Gmail Settings Help, you will be taken to the Gmail Help Centre. On that page you will see Suggest a Feature. That's telling you about it rather loudly and by all standards of opinion polling, Google will have a pretty good idea of |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/9/13 12:32 AM | So, you're telling Trooper that one has to: 1. click settings2. click help3. then on a very busy screen with more than 30 clickable options, notice something small buried on the right hand side that says "suggest a feature" (because not knowing ther |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/9/13 1:09 AM | On the landing page for the Help Centre is hardly down in the furnace room. What software do you know about that has a suggestions link closer than one click away from the main user page? [Edit: Apologies, two clicks] |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Trooper48 | 2/9/13 9:24 AM | I agree with Ironsides. Polling is an "active" as opposed to "passive" activity. One goes out and asks opinions, whereas receiving "suggestions" is passive; so in fact Google is not even polling. Polling if done right gets a representative sample to |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/9/13 9:34 AM | Thanks, Trooper - well put. From an academic perspective (as I've already switched to another platform but follow this discussion for the giggle factor), I clicked on google help and searched on sort. There are several threads out there with user |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Sinisa Szabo | 2/9/13 6:41 PM | Yep, need sort in addition to something like "Advanced Search".Simple as that. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 2/11/13 11:59 AM | You are just trolling now. Here's how it is faster. I want to see all my emails sorted by date so I can put them into folders I created. I click on the button above the date field in the list. My emails are now sorted by date and I can put them wher |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/11/13 1:08 PM | Terra Good points, but the problem is that google actually recognizes the difference between search and sort but just doesn't care enough to upgrade the system. Over 3 years ago (12/12/09) PeterR wrote in another forum: "We TCs aren't trying to sa |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Zen Man | 2/11/13 2:31 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Zen Man | 2/11/13 2:43 PM | Wow, That link really shows Google Inc really are not interested. I do want/need a Sort option so maybe Outlook.com is the way. If Google Drive can provide Sort why can't Google Inc give Google Mail the resources to upgrade and roll this facility out |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Trooper48 | 2/11/13 6:39 PM | Thanks Ironsides Having read some of those years-old posts, I see that PeterR and CMan are saying the same thing here as they said those years ago, in some cases almost word for word. It seems we're all being taken for a bit of a ride as they contin |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Andrew Abrams | 2/14/13 9:10 AM | What hasn't been addressed, and I hope I'm not the only one who's noticed this, is google employee reaction. We say we need a function, and are dismissed. So now I got a client that never deleted anything in 5 years I gotta clean out. You know what w |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 2/14/13 11:28 AM | E-mail in your Gmail account is already ordered by date. You don't need a "button" for that, it's the default. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Andrew Abrams | 2/15/13 9:20 AM | I need it from oldest to newest... And I ordered a double cheeseburger. Thanks �� |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Dale Patrick | 2/15/13 10:49 AM | another huge problem with this is what if you are getting an e-mail from a friend that is using an alias? Tough luck if you don't have ESP. It is much better for me to filter and delete new e-mail from friends or business names and contacts than it i |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/16/13 12:41 AM | Andrew, I can only suggest that you go to the last page and work your way up. There's no sort function from last to first. I wish I had a better meal to offer other than that double cheeseburger you ordered. Instead of being characterized of someon |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 2/16/13 4:24 AM | I couldn't agree more, Beverley. For those who can't find their email without sorting it in alphabetical order, because they don't know what they've got, the combination of sorting and the powerful Gmail search would be a good one. But here's the Go |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/17/13 9:31 AM | Wendy Thanks very much for the link to Striebeck's comments. I found them very enlightening, and now am convinced more than ever that Google will never respond,. I was an executive for a few years at SAP in the late 90's - early 00's. As you like |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ramondo Elvan | 2/17/13 4:32 PM | Don't be so condesending, If your providing a product that the client does not like then YOU are at fault not the client. Paid or not, gmail should be EMAIL from Google and it should work like Email. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/17/13 4:35 PM | Many thanks, wdurham. I really didn't know much about the gmail organizational process. Now, I like it a lot. The suggestions you and Cman made are extremely helpful and led me to other links that I am sharing. I hope these links help others beco |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/17/13 5:51 PM | Thanks Beverley, Wendy is the real expert on Labels and I took Search a little further than most because it was a system I used before computers were in common use and I had never even heard of one. Really pleased you have found it so useful. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/18/13 12:11 AM | It does - beautifully. Works like email from Google. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 2/18/13 1:55 AM | Glad it helped, Beverley, even if we did start out on the wrong foot! I spent a number of years looking for a decent email client (my ISP didn't offer webmail) and it wasn't until I discovered Gmail that I was finally able to do what I wanted to do |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/18/13 6:50 PM | HAHA ... "google aps " vs " google mail " ( diffrent line ) it's not about : 1. HOW Smart is google develop 2. HOW good is google develop U can not expect every one use some click to do thator know about that. it's not about how gmail can do that.. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/18/13 6:59 PM | gmailschool, Evidently I need some education because your comment made no sense at all to me. Where is your school and what do you charge for courses in illiteracy? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Michelle Maxson | 2/19/13 7:39 AM | I agree - I can't believe google doesn't ahve this!! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/19/13 9:47 AM | Michelle, Please read what Beverley said five above your posts. She originally said near the same as you but she was willing to try not using Sort. When you have honestly followed what she did from the advice on the previous page from wdurham and my |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/19/13 11:50 AM | Totally agree concerning the impossibility of finding and old email. I knew who I sent the email to and I knew what date. It's not there in the sent box. The person replied to that particular email one week later and so it's in the inbox on that date |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 2/19/13 12:14 PM | Gmail has had that for months (perhaps more than a year) now. Turning off the Conversation View (the grouping of messages based on subject): Settings->General->Conversation View Perhaps you should watch the Gmail blog so you're not so far behind t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/19/13 1:16 PM | Yes,I've found it already and done it, thanks. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/19/13 1:18 PM | but I got the help from another blog. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/19/13 1:24 PM | Done it already but I got the help from another blog so I'm not behind the times. Same collapsing thing of messages going here. When you create an account these features should be automatically disabled - (haven't been using gmail for long)especially |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/19/13 7:18 PM | It is. Sent messages cannot be removed from the Sent view except by deleting them completely. Conversations are sorted by date - the date of the most recent message. Turning off conversation view (which you claim you know all about) will let you s |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 2/20/13 12:34 AM | Just download Thunderbird and go through the setup wizard, it takes 2-3 mins max & you will be able to do all the things that Gmail should be able to do. You don't need to use Thunderbird all the time, just when you need to do some inbox housekeepin |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/20/13 1:55 AM | Le mercredi 20 février 2013 04:18:01 UTC+1, KeithR a écrit : |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/20/13 1:57 AM | Thank you. This is a useful contribution. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | So Kay | 2/20/13 2:07 AM | > Something that just sorts by date. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/20/13 2:28 AM | thedavegray, Were you referring to scoring points that would improve our levels or points for sarcasm? Top Contributors don't gain any for either but we do get a little temperamental when somebody has evidently jumped from first post to last (may no |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/20/13 6:17 PM | No problem, wdurham. I'm was a bit testy, also. Glad we had a chance to put our heads together and dialog. And, you have been VERY helpful: I appreciate it. I do find the label function quite nice. It was an eye opener for me, too. Now, that I |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/20/13 6:26 PM | gmail school, I'm not sure I understand your question, but I'd like to help. Please let me know if I'm getting your question right. 1. How smart are the Google developers? Well, now that I've been schooled a bit, I'd say pretty damn smart. 2. How |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/20/13 7:18 PM | Yes, C Man, I guess one would get a little temperamental when those damned users keep asking for the same thing for over four years and you have to keep defending a system that lacks basic functionality. I did go back and read other threads starting |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/20/13 7:28 PM | Wendy... you make a good point about Google attempting to not offer the same old thing once again. However, why didn't they augment a system with all the fancy search stuff and keep the ability to sort? Taking away basic sorting ability is not in |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/20/13 7:38 PM | The Ironsides, Only reason we get temperamental is because so many demand that Gmail becomes a clone of all that went before. If you want to live in the past then I hope you use a horse and buggy and not one of these new fangled horseless carriages. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/20/13 8:17 PM | emmh i thing u not read my post properly :-) this post NOT asking about how smart / good develop team or gmail capability. remember NOT oke. ( form the start i never question the intelectualy to coding the program). ps: coding "sort" function is ver- |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/20/13 8:21 PM | As for age, I'm now in retirement so the ageist comments just don't work, but do show your generally negative approach. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough about including sort..... I never intended to suggest that Google had a previous email system. I |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/20/13 8:23 PM | oek this is example. 1. google representatif sugest.. blah - blbah or waht ever it is. 2. IF google provide command line am suggesting. just type "SORT DATE" press oke. Witch way the google user is choose ? number 1 or 2 oke be FAIR about it.... ANS |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/20/13 8:29 PM | To all, it appears from chatter that is not public, that the sort function was left out of Gmail to maximise the database for search and capacity. Remember that this is not a desktop based system, but a web based system that was designed when the pl |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/20/13 8:42 PM | HAHAH at last the true answer but as ex programing the SORT is SIMPLE as IT. VS google apps a lot more difficult and complex. ( just remember ur customer is not that STU**D ) oke if i am google representatif i will answer this: ====* ALL gmail user |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 2/21/13 12:28 AM | Wrong. Command line interfaces pre-date DOS by a good number of years. The computer revolution did not start with Windows/DOS you know. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/21/13 2:43 AM | On Thursday, 21 February 2013 15:21:11 UTC+11, The Ironsides wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear enough about including sort..... I never intended to suggest that Google had a previous email system. I was only attempting to say (which I think most reader |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 3:02 AM | thedavegray, You look very young so must have been a very early retirement. The computer revolution probably started with QDOS because until that there was no such thing as a personal computer really. Bless or curse Sir Clive he really forced progr |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/21/13 6:26 AM | thedavegrayLevel 2... a little satire for comedic effect. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 2/21/13 6:30 AM | Really? I think there where PDPs and Vaxen around before that & I know they all had CLI's. Not to mention Unix and other forerunners. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/21/13 6:47 AM | thedavegray... yes, I do know. It's hyperbolic satire for comedic effect... |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Reluctant Gmail user | 2/21/13 6:55 AM | I don't use Gmail by choice. After years of using only Lotus Notes I had to find an e-mail provider for a (fairly) short-term project and picked Gmail more or less at random, to my later considerable regret. I battled with the ghastly 'Conversation V |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/21/13 7:22 AM | Sans the snide comments, thedavegray is right. 1. You like gmail's functions: use it. 2. You don't like gmail's functions: don't use it. The C Man made some valid suggestions. I chose to try them and like them. Also, wdurham made a good sugge |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 8:37 AM | What most fail to take account of is we TC's are under an almost constant bombardment from those who think their own way is better. Occasionally we find somebody who is willing to accept advice and the advice I and Wendy gave Beverley was given many |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 2/21/13 9:07 AM | Except I could give a rat's tail how or what Beverly does in her mail. This thread wasn't titled "How can I use Search in lieu of Sort", it's titled "Sort messages by date, subject, sender". The body of the message was "I want the ability to easily s |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 2/21/13 9:16 AM | I have read this thread pretty much from start to finish and I can honestly say your droning on is giving me and possibly other users a headache. We don't wish to remove your search functionality, we just want Google to take note that we want what |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 2/21/13 9:31 AM | Look, thedavegray - Gmail doesn't sort. And by the direct statement of the then Head of Engineering last August, providing Sort in Gmail is low priority. (a) because it is not as simple as you all think it is and (b) because the development resources |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/21/13 9:37 AM | C Man and Keith I love how both of you seize on what I admitted was not the best analogy (steering wheel) in your feeble attempts at a rebuttal, yet you both ignored the more substantive issue of ignoring what users are requesting. You never even m |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 9:49 AM | ........ and the bombardment continues. My personal opinion (I am allowed one) is there are some who are not prepared to try using Search properly for fear they may either be unable to use it or they might find it better and will never admit they co |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/21/13 9:49 AM | Wendy Things would be so much simpler if Google admitted up front officially that GMail doesn't sort and they have no intention of having it do so. I found this forum when using Help and searching on "sort". Instead of pointing me to this forum (a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 9:54 AM | The Ironsides, |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/21/13 9:56 AM | C Man: you once again fail to read and/or listen and instead choose to denigrate those who ask for sort functionality. Argumentum ad hominem is one of the worst (and most prevalent) fallacies. If you cannot defend your argument, attack the other p |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 2/21/13 10:22 AM | Ironsides Gmail doesn't sort. In August it was stated by Striebeck that whilst it implementing Sort was not 100% ruled out, implementing Sort was low priority, because there were better ways of finding information using existing alternative methods |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/21/13 11:25 AM | Terra, excuse me, but I have FREQUENTLY written that I although I would like to have a sort function, but I am willing to work with a search function. Furthermore, I am not a "him" and have no interest in becoming an "Elder Advisor" as I do not work |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 11:38 AM | Beverley, What can I say except "I told you so". Terra, Thank you for proving my point. The Ironsides, If you cannot bring yourself to use the "The" or "Manny" please have the courtesy of exercising your thumb and using the space bar. There is a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | brian edwards | 2/21/13 11:50 AM | I must say that this thread has actually been illuminating, to see how I am not a target-audience anymore for google. For simple users like me who can use tech but love simplicity, easy 1-click sorting is kinda a deal-breaker. Let's be honest, for t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/21/13 11:59 AM | brian, Unless you are referring to Outlook.com then you can use gmail/outlook. Why do you need to use Hotmail? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 2/21/13 12:33 PM | It's time to move on to another topic to learn about gmail and other applications. I'm unsubscribing. Sorting or searching: do as you will. It's not the end of the world. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/21/13 4:41 PM | ahhh lucky you beverly :-) yup we know that this discussion is useless because "the representatif DO NOT have power/influence to top management" or event worst "representati get order from management to encounter and not to listen" 1. and please stop |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Crazy Hound | 2/21/13 5:14 PM | This thread is unbelievable. The C Man forecast exactly what just happened. Are the rest of you so foreseeable? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/21/13 7:46 PM | The[space]C[space]Man wrote: |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/21/13 9:48 PM | Wendy Your critique of my post is disappointing in that you have in the past most often responded as if you had read what was written. Unfortunately this isn’t the case this time. In my post I stated that Google should state up front whe |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 2/22/13 12:42 AM | Did he actually say that sorting isnot that simple to implement or are you adding that to lend weight to your argument? Do you have any clue about software development at all that you believe this is hard to do. Well I do, and I can tell you should |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/22/13 6:55 PM | I was going to ignore this thread, but I can't help commenting on some of this. On Friday, 22 February 2013 04:37:06 UTC+11, Ironsides wrote:C Man and Keith |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/22/13 7:05 PM | Hi Dave, I win - 38 years in software development. Sort still might happen, but it's not easy. Remember that it has to be translated into 200+ languages, it has to be fitted into the rest of Gmail's infrastructure, etc. There are other things hap |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 2/22/13 8:53 PM | Keith I understand what you're saying (really) and like the comment that you "attempt to explain to users how to get the best out of the existing product". That's great and kudos to you. What rankles a lot of us, however, is being told that we don |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/23/13 4:58 AM | Latest to earliest but you have to use the left hand arrow: - Choose a Label or Search using the correct term. - Subject to the total number being found hover over the count to show Oldest. - Click on Oldest. - Scroll to bottom and work your way ba |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/24/13 12:59 AM | oke i am have 3 Phd in psikology + 23 Phd in mnagement IT and software i always tech to spoiled user have use software to learn. i make webmail that i remove send bottom from user interface. AND i thing gmail need to foloow me. YUP in the future gm |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/24/13 1:16 AM | ups sorry i forget . SORT is sorting A- Z, 1-1000000 (and u only sort the spesifi table - not databases) if any programing make "SORT CODE" they need to translate langg or sorting all people/account databases just for 1 account sort. THAT IS VERY - V |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 2/24/13 1:20 AM | That would be believable if you bothered to post in English instead of this odd txt-speak that makes your posts almost impossible to read. If English is not your first language, please post in your native language because the Forum provides Translat |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/24/13 4:57 PM | SEARCH is diffrent with SORT. that RIGHT "mnagement" if u USING SEARCH how do you find this one. just like another post how do you find subjent "c m A n" oh oh oh a lot of Phd TITLE this the world of psychopath. PS : this forum u not write Deser |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 2/24/13 5:05 PM | if u have TITLE Phd or Prof -- but ur atitude is like first graduate student. just remove or Phd title. Phd or prof title is big burden for people who carried. social burden and scientist burden. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/25/13 4:41 AM | gmailschool, Please post in your own language as we cannot understand what you are trying to say? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 2/28/13 5:10 PM | WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM MAKE? EVERY OTHER MAJOR EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS THAT SORT FEATURE. WHY IS THIS ONE SO ARCHAIC? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 2/28/13 5:14 PM | You are condescending to folks who TEACH others how to use email. I would never use Gmail to teach anyone anything. It's archaic. Passe. Limited. Juvenile. It takes too much time to search thru everything. You have insulted the intelligence of man |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 2/28/13 6:46 PM | Suzan, I'm sorry you feel like that. I'm sure you have a much better knowledge of email systems including Gmail than I will ever have apart from the fact that Google is the one that is the most modern. Sort was used in most of the earlier emails sys |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 2/28/13 9:03 PM | Again, insulting to the intelligence of most adults. The dumbing down of the people via the schools came first. Followed by the dumbing down of the internet. Microsoft is part of the problem. Using search is inefficient and too restrictive. I only us |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/1/13 8:32 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/1/13 8:41 AM | Sorry but I tried something that does not work in the forum. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Paresh Thakker | 3/1/13 9:20 AM | I too am a very unsatisfied gmail customer. My eyeballs pay for your salary so stop making excuses and add this feature! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/1/13 9:52 AM | Paresh, How many adverts did you click on last year? How much revenue did you generate for Goolge? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 3/1/13 6:40 PM | Besides which, "your salary" doesn't apply to anyone who has posted in this thread. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 3/1/13 6:43 PM | If you are talking about inserting your hometown coat of arms in an email to me... it did not work. :-) |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Steven C2013 | 3/1/13 10:01 PM | I have to agree with the sentiments of frustration here. Not being able to sort by sender meant that it took me an awfully long time to just clean out my inbox, and also update my contacts and newsletters/email alerts on my new address. I gave gmail |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/2/13 2:47 AM | Suzan and Steven, I feel this thread is far too long and like many others you have not read beyond the second page before jumping to the end and posting your comments which is a shame. Checking for mail to and from anybody or company including news |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 3/2/13 7:34 PM | You are condescending to a woman who was doing radiation therapy dosimetery in 1970 on a computer. I don't know how to search!????? OMG. If I have a bunch of crap that I neglected to delete from god only knows who hanging out... how am I supposed t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/2/13 9:03 PM | Suzan, I'm trying to help. Nothing condescending intended. We have no idea from here what if any IQ you have and since apparently you have not linked your profile to your posts here it is difficult to know what your history is comprised of. The fact |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Suzan Orchard-Farris | 3/3/13 7:29 AM | Really? Why don't you read the number of posts where people ASK for a sort feature and just get it done instead of making excuses and offering advice that will not suffice for some folks. Good thing I didn't ditch AOL and Yahoo for Gmail. Just set |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 3/3/13 9:13 AM | Look, Suzan - you can tell off other people all you like, But the fact remains that Gmail does not sort messages by sender, by subject, by size of attachment and all the other things people want. Nor is it likely to implement sorting in the near or |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ty Wickline | 3/3/13 9:55 AM | I want the ability to sort my email/inbox by Sender. Please help. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/3/13 11:26 AM | Ty, Once again: - Open Contacts where they will be shown in alphabetic order. - Hover over a name which will bring up a hover card. - Click on the word "emails". All the emails to and from that contact will be found. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/3/13 11:39 AM | Suzan, You don't need to even open Gmail to Chat with your daughter. Google + does that including using Hangouts for video chats. Yahoo has it's own chat system http://messenger.yahoo.com/ as does AOL http://aim.aol.co.uk/ but I have a feeling your |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gd Dickens | 3/3/13 12:07 PM | I am dropping gmail due the difficulty with sorting messages. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/3/13 12:12 PM | So, according to your response, those who want the sort function are unreasonable, clueless, and have messy habits among other bad characteristics. Very classy comment. Oh dear, why can't we all be so virtuous as you. BTW, I suppose when you empty |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/3/13 12:22 PM | Ironsides, I'm always searching for matching socks. It's a natural law that one half of each pair will be washed while the other half is somewhere under the bed. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/3/13 12:42 PM | you should only buy socks of one colour and then no problem. It's like knowing exactly what's in your inbox so you don't have to sort. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/3/13 2:51 PM | Folks, there really is no reason for this animosity all these personal attacks. I have no doubt that most here have a high degree of technical sanity. There's no point in attacking the messenger(s). If sort is a low priority, it's a low priority. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/3/13 5:55 PM | yup yup Next topic.... ( let's learn how to use SEARCH bottom ) C man can u HELP me to search or find email with wrong typing and or with space example : ( but we don't know if the sender is miss type) 1. managemant 2. l e a r n best regards and thx |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/3/13 6:28 PM | gmailschool, If you make a mistake in the original then you need to make the same mistake in the search. Sorry but this is one area where soft data is not used. Make sure your browser's spell check is on. If the sender cannot spell then you have no |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 3/3/13 6:51 PM | I agree with C Man here. @gmailschool, can you teach us how you would use Sort to find such errors? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/3/13 9:02 PM | oh i am sory than my english is not as good as you c man. but if i use google translate than i thing u will read ALIENT languange - because google translate almost translate word - by word. BUT just like i post before- this is "FORUM" not "DESERTATIO |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/4/13 2:26 AM | gmailschool, Unfortunately due to a language problem it is difficult to understand what you are asking so please post in your own language. Guessing at what you are asking there is no search term to find: misspelled words |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/4/13 5:29 PM | c man - cman if u can not answer the quetion PLEASE don't "deliberately diverting the subject" what i show u search and sort have diffrent purpose. you insult me if u can not read my languange - BUT the true is cman have MISREAD the post. it usualy |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/4/13 5:44 PM | gmailschool, Your language is not the English we speak in English speaking countries so please tell us where you come from. Your question is not answerable as you have phrased it so please use your own language and we will use the Google Translator |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/4/13 8:00 PM | c man your the first person BREAK the regulation of POSTING GUIDELINES people ask for sort you post about search and thunderbird you insulted people - and do bad thing to other posting. (just read from the top what you have done) you ask people to be |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 3/4/13 9:30 PM | @gmailschool, putting stars in the words doesn't make them any less offensive - you are the first poster to use offensive words in this segment of the thread. Please stop. I don't know why you are getting angry, because C Man is quite accurate in s |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/5/13 12:13 AM | keith R i thing u can see another post .. just open from the top post and read carefully every post u can see how c man insulted people. just like "gmailschool post *** must remove or some thing like that" and another post even not give star for that |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/5/13 12:27 AM | Keith i posted back there. just END this forum TOPIC by say === SORRY Google know SORT VS SEARCH is diffrent function and we caN not give SORT facility and we NOT have ContacT list From "google development". and we do not know contact our BOss for th |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/5/13 1:50 AM | gmailschool, I'm sorry for being so dense but this has to be a wind up. Well done for being so convincing. Please contact me through my profile as I would like to know who you really are. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Joolsus | 3/5/13 10:41 AM | just use "em client". |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmailschool | 3/5/13 6:23 PM | hehehehe relaxy c man don't get angry. I not get angry and not be offended I did not even care at all. it is just warm up - so forum not become bored. :-) just open your mind widely. some times we thing that our brain is 100% work but.... who know |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/5/13 6:38 PM | gmailschool, You are a self classified troll and what you think of as a joke was time wasting so how about you make it up by trying to help other posters who have real problems? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Audrey K | 3/6/13 2:22 PM | Me too. I have been using Gmail for years with an offline reader, so I never have to deal with the online interface. Yuck. The reader is coming to the end of its useful life so I will need to find another--or, as others have pointed out, take my busi |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/6/13 7:19 PM | I and many others have made the switch to another provider. It's the question of short term pain for long term gain. Simply have your Google Mail forwarded to your new address then wean your correspondents off of your old address. You'll find other p |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/6/13 10:33 PM | Audrey, Unless Thunderbird is coming to a halt it's specifically designed to go with Gmail. Which is the one that's coming to a halt? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/6/13 10:37 PM | Ironsides, Thank you for your invaluable comment. I believe it's part of the advice you were given some months ago by a couple of TC's. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/6/13 11:09 PM | CMan You're welcome. In the end, people will vote with their cyber feet. So many want the sort function without resorting to third party apps, and there are other platforms that provide both search and sort, along with a host of other benefits. S |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 3/7/13 1:47 AM | That is complete tosh. Thunderbird is an email cleint that works with lots of email system, to say it's specifically designed for Gmail is just plain wrong. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Deborah Ellis | 3/7/13 9:03 AM | Me too, it is crazy that a simple function such as sorting your inbox is so primative. Good bye GMail! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Audrey K | 3/7/13 9:24 AM | Embarrassed to admit: I've been using Eudora. It has been unsupported since 2006 or 2007... and when I finally upgrade my really old Windows machine it probably won't work any more. I looked into Thunderbird a while back--I'll check it out again. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/7/13 5:28 PM | thedavegray, According to Mozilla it was originally designed (as Firefox was designed to work with Google) to work with Gmail. Some other email systems are able to use it (not all) just as Outlook will. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | thedavegray | 3/8/13 12:37 AM | I don't believe either of those was designed specifically for Google products which is what you originally claimed, they may use Google APIs but that's hardly the same. Thunderbird connects to POP and IMAP servers, again hardly Google specific... |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/8/13 8:10 AM | When I initially asked for help, I really hated not being able to sort and was annoyed and frustrated with gmail. I can now organize my messages quite nicely without one now that I understand the mechanisms by which it works. In writing this statem |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 3/8/13 11:31 AM | Nice post Beverly, thanks. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/8/13 11:43 AM | Beverly, Thank you so much for coming back and adding your support. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/9/13 9:11 PM | A positive post, Beverly. The unfortunate thing is that this forum is labelled "sort gmail.....", not "understanding gmail's interface". People come here to learn how to sort, as they are led here through Gmail help. The frustration you read is t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 3/10/13 12:29 AM | Ironsides, the label on this Forum is "Google Product Forums >> Gmail". The question asked was titled "Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender". The straight answer is Gmail doesn't do that. This answer was given in the third reply quoted bel |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/10/13 7:08 AM | I used Sort yesterday on a Blackberry Playbook due to the fact it could not use Search without going to the Desktop version of Gmail which I was not prepared to do. First time ever. It was not easy to find a single email even knowing who sent it. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/10/13 3:13 PM | Keith You're going to "win" just because one gives up trying to help others understand why one is frustrated. But... The first post in this set of communications (which to me is one of the number of fora under GMail help which is a meta-forum or what |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/10/13 3:49 PM | Ironsides, The original poster (Paladin_JKC) set the Subject line which is what you are referring to and if you feel is so wrong you can change this: Evidently Paladin did what he threatened as there are no postings to the forum listed after the |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/10/13 5:26 PM | Ironsides, I completely empathize with you. I came here with the exact same frustration (and annoyance) when I realized I couldn't sort. Now that I understand the gmail interface, I like it a lot. However, you make an excellent point that the thr |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/10/13 7:59 PM | Well put, Beverly. As one who has had to vet and approve user manuals, I still have a quibble (and for you as a former writer I'm sure you'll understand) with your preamble to the set of proposed instructions. It is the phrasing currently on the w |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 3/10/13 8:54 PM | I believe the sort vs search debate is reflective of the use-model people have. I used an installed e-mail client (Pocomail) for years at home, and Outlook for a couple decades at work. Both support sorting which I almost never used. I still use O |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | KeithR | 3/10/13 9:09 PM | So, Ironsides, if you ask a question on this Forum "How does Gmail enable me to fly to the moon" and I answer, "Sorry, Gmail can't do that" that is not straight forward? The only answer that is "straight forward" is to tell you how? What an idiot y |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/10/13 9:30 PM | I see Keith has offered his opinion, and left. Too bad. This is from the google website, as quoted earlier. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/10/13 9:44 PM | Ironsides, The actual advice quoted is in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_P8RGG1WXTlu9W8qpaT3Vw82HzgwVNLr3DSqBCosFdw/edit and the first paragraph should be quoted in full. Leaving the remainder of it unquoted is as good as misquoting.so in full |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/10/13 10:09 PM | Hi CMan If you look at my original quote, I did include the sentence "instead of sorting messages, however, you search for them". The remainder of the quote you offer is simply amplification of this sentence. So I was not misquoting or obfuscating |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/11/13 4:19 AM | Ironsides, Like you I hate something that says one thing and immediately contradicts itself (Politicians are included in that statement) so I have raised the issue and asking for it to be rephrased. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 3/11/13 11:52 AM | CMan.... sounds good. Another thing as Beverly suggested is to clearly state what GMail cannot do, so that little time is wasted seeking a solution which doesn't exist. Thanks. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/11/13 1:15 PM | Sorry Ironsides but I will not ask for that as what may not be possible today may be in a month's time but because it has been said it can't do it nobody will try it. Sounds rather like the Blackberry Superbowl Ad but I cannot get my Z10 to make my |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/11/13 3:25 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/11/13 3:37 PM | Ironsides and Cman, OK, the actual advice quoted IS in search (and the the shortcuts are great... sorry if I missed them). I think with your combined comments, there's a solution. The instructions are perfect, so I guess we are all focusing on one |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Heiko Schaefer | 3/13/13 12:42 AM | Thank you Ironsides for "maintaining the rage" so to speak. If my house/garage is full of stuff and if I want to find something specific then anything that would help me find it easily and quickly is appreciated (search --> find). So full marks to G |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 3/13/13 12:55 AM | Actually, that sounds more like labels ("meaningful piles"). Using a household analogy, a more appropriate example would be sorting your DVDs into alphabetical order (or books, records, etc). But even that is just to help you search for a specific t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Heiko Schaefer | 3/13/13 4:19 AM | Your cd collection sample is irrelevant to what users are asking for. Can we agree that an email account can contain a lot of information (data). Some users here have referred to thousands of messages in their inbox that they want to get a handle on? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/13/13 7:10 AM | Heiko, Please explain why you keep thousands of emails in your Inbox. Does all your family throw all their clothes into one heap? Do you just have a large barrel in which you throw all your drinks whether they be cordials, alcoholic beverages, soups |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/13/13 8:38 AM | Just to be helpful, here's the advanced search link at the very beginning of this forum from months ago: . Then, there's the shortcut link, which was really helpful, also. This is the way gmail works. I hope it helps. About the database analogy: |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 3/13/13 10:08 AM | Let's try a real analogy. We all get snail mail. We get junk amongst it. We get complete rubbish amongst it. We get stuff which isn't actually junk, but is not very relevant to us right now. We get mail which might be relevant in the future, so we |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Marcia Sichol | 3/14/13 1:40 PM | yes, please give us the ability to sort by name, etc. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/14/13 2:10 PM | Marcia, Open Contacts > hover over the names which are in alphabetic order to show the hover cards > click on "Emails" in the card and it will show you all in chronological order. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Abe Troyer | 3/16/13 11:33 PM | I want the ability to easily sort my email by sender, date, or subject. If you do not provide this feature soon I will drop Gmail and move on to another email provider that does provide this feature. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 3/16/13 11:37 PM | There are several to choose from with various pros and cons when compared to Gmail. Be sure to post which one you select so others will have that information. Good luck. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Rosemary Hackett | 3/20/13 8:14 AM | Even the ancient Juno, which I used first for email, provides the sort by clicking on the column heading! Can't believe Gmail specs didn't include this feature. Juno also provides a box for searching for a name, maybe a one-time email where the sende |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/20/13 11:40 AM | Rosemary, I had no idea somebody wanted to travel back to the past as much as I however I would like to be the age I was then. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Genette Flynn | 3/23/13 5:50 PM | I want to look for some old messages that were archived to folders in may june 2010 |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 3/23/13 11:37 PM | OK. Is that a question somehow? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/23/13 11:55 PM | Genette, After Label: type in the name of it (could show as a suggestion) and then space after with the date in the order shown followed by space and before in the same way. Remember the colons. label:whatever after:2004/04/16 before:2004/04/18 |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | nidhi.r nair | 3/24/13 8:04 AM | i am not able to change the view of the emails. If i want to delete one email it deletes all the previous emails and show all of them as one email. Any solution to this. i had this problem in hotmail which was changed to outlook but i could change to |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/24/13 11:34 AM | Use the Settings cog > Settings > turn off Conversation View but you can use the menu arrow (next to Reply) to choose "delete this message". |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Nick Micozzi | 3/25/13 3:56 PM | Are there any usability experts here? Search <> Sort and Search is not better. that is a crazy opinion that completely disregards plenty of legitimate user flows and tasks. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/25/13 4:35 PM | Nick, Take a look through the previous posts last five or six pages and you'll find advice on how to use Search but unfortunately none of the proponents of Sort have shown how it is faster or more usable so far. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 3/26/13 1:31 AM | Nick, I was a "sort" person; now I like "search" better. I really, really hated not being able to sort. You can set up a "tasks" label and put a "pending" and "completed" sub-labels. Now that I've set up my labels and filters, I go through my inbo |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Wizard232 | 3/26/13 2:39 AM | I would download your messages using windows mail or something (even though i hate windows mail) and then cancel your gmail account. If they are not going to give us what we want/need, then as others have put it. let them lose the accounts like net |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/26/13 3:14 AM | Wizard, First time of posting and you apparently capable of giving such competent knowledge as to advise somebody to use something you personally hate seems only moderately helpful. Could have been even more helpful if you had advised something you |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Wizard232 | 3/27/13 3:01 AM | Your right, over 30 years of using computers, at least 15 years fixing computers and tech support. At least 20 years of software recommendation, 3 years of writing tech manuals, and about 10 years of dealing with building web sites. I think this mak |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 3/27/13 3:13 AM | Wizard, "over 30 years of using computers, at least 15 years fixing computers and tech support. At least 20 years of software recommendation, 3 years of writing tech manuals, and about 10 years of dealing with building web sites. I think this makes |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | CarlosOnline | 4/1/13 10:33 AM | i now hesitate to recommend gmail b/c of its cruddy UI. Not adding this feature is abusive |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ron Blouch | 4/1/13 11:23 AM | Good lord. Really? I can't sort by subject, sender, recieved, etc? Is that really possible? I moved to Gmail because I needed to move my business to the cloud. I spend much of my time pounding my head against the wall at the absence of simple, easy, |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | A Christensen | 4/1/13 11:54 AM | I cut and pasted the subject line from one of the emails I had into the advanced search on the subject line, but gmail did not return ANY emails. -- ****************************************************************** Accuracy Related Penalties. The |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/1/13 12:14 PM | A Christensen, You need to replace the spaces with underscores if you are searching for a phrase. Accuracy Related Penalties would become Accuracy_Related_Penalties |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Joselma Dias | 4/3/13 3:26 PM | i cant find a email send to me on 03/07/13 fromConsulado Brasil Boston |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/3/13 3:49 PM | Try searching any part of the following which is the address they should come from but using the last couple words may work so just entering http://gov.br might do it. bos...@itamaraty.gov.br |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Bernadette Horan | 4/23/13 10:46 PM | I have win 7 and use internet ezplorer, how can I sort my email by sender? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | shorty82 | 4/24/13 4:32 AM | If you had read the post marked Best Answer (directly below the original post) you would know the answer already, you can't. Gmail does not offer sort, instead they offer one of the best email search systems anywhere as searching returns better and m |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/24/13 6:36 AM | What's adorable is that you seem to think that only google has such a feature. Outlook.com not only has the sort everyone is looking for, but also a new sweep feature that allows you to write mail rules on the fly as you are sorting through your mail |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Boris Yuriditsky | 4/25/13 7:56 AM | Be careful with statement that 350 millions are happy. EVERYONE I know (at least 50 out of 50) is very unhappy with Gmail interface. Not many of them complain, but we try to find an alternative. When we find it, it'll be too late for Gmail. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 4/25/13 8:18 AM | The point is that Gmail was built on search from the start. It was never intended to implement sorting. And sorting has never been implemented, and whilst not ruled out, is very low priority. So if you simply cannot live without sorting, either don' |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/25/13 9:39 AM | Oh don't worry - people have moved away from gmail and continue to do so. The features just aren't there and the customer service even for the paid apps is atrocious. For me, sorting was the dealbreaker. I keep this account for follow this thread an |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Ironsides | 4/25/13 10:06 AM | Totally agree Terra.... I stopped commenting here awhile ago but monitor the discussion for chuckle purposes. I wonder if Google's advertisers realize how many google accounts are really just dummy ones where the users never see the ads, etc. I h |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/25/13 12:00 PM | I didn't like the fact that I couldn't sort in gmail. I came onto the forum seeking help. Wendy and Manny were extremely helpful in teaching me how to use the search and label feature. (Thank you.) However, if you can't live without sorting, list |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/25/13 12:19 PM | Oh believe me Beverly, we ALL witnessed that and were appropriately nauseated. I'm glad it works for you. It's still dumb. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/25/13 2:57 PM | Terra, Please explain what nauseated you? Was it that Wendy and I were able to help or that Beverley was able to make use of the advice? I went through the Microsoft/Windows based Office courses and have the certificates to prove it. I made use of w |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/25/13 7:58 PM | I knew you couldn't stay away for long. What nauseated me in particular was the subsequent circle jerk over the whole thing. Like search was all of a sudden some sort of revelation that Beverly couldn't understand how she EVER lived her life without |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/25/13 9:16 PM | Terra, You are clearly too young to remember punch cards, programming in COBOL, and common courtesy. Thankfully, I'm not. I'm guessing I wrote SQL code before you, and definitely someone's son, even knew what the acronym meant. I neither bashed no |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/25/13 11:58 PM | Terra, Beverley has answered for me except about my son who happens to be the lead programmer for Datel and a position was specially created in the company when he was in his early twenties and he told them where some of their programming was at fau |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/26/13 5:32 AM | Beverly, please read Cman's post - that's what I was responding to. I'm not going to address you further. Cman - I fail to see how your son and his accomplishments are at all relevant to the discussion. I'm sure that you are very proud of him, but w |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/26/13 10:06 AM | We are now on Page 17 of this thread. Yes, Google is not going to change. Are we all clear on that? Great. Ironsides and I seem to be engaged in this forum for the same reason. I believe we presented an possible solution without attacking anyone |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/26/13 11:45 AM | Terra, As Beverley has pointed out, you were the one who brought my son into this so why complain when I have a little brag about him? You were also the one who commented to Beverley and then have the tenacity to tell her to butt out. The posting g |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 4/26/13 11:50 AM | Beverley, I reckon you could write the blog on Search and Labels yourself so if you would like to have a go at doing so we (I'm sure I can speak for Wendy in this) would love to help so I'll add you to a circle. It would be rather nice to have someb |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/26/13 6:22 PM | Thank you, Manny. I would welcome being a part of yours' and Wendy's circle and look forward to the invites. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | mike the broker | 4/29/13 6:42 AM | the sort feature is VERY needed and requested. reading other replies/posts raise good points...however overlook one very important one: i believe the prime reason gmail has caught up with the other mail services is due to companies/corporations/gover |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | wdurham | 4/29/13 8:10 AM | Sorting is NOT actually needed, mike the broker, although many people want it because they don't know any different. If you keep on top of your mail, classifying, replying, deleting, etc etc as you go along, you never, EVER need to sort. Of course, |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/29/13 8:37 AM | Really - the hostility is just completely uncalled for. No one is here stamping their feet and demanding anything. We asked, were told to take a long walk off a short pier, and moved on. None of us signed up for Gmail knowing it wouldn't do what we w |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/29/13 11:32 AM | Terra, we do agree that hostility is unnecessary, no matter how it arose. So, let's move on. As a non-Google employee, I do understand the frustration about the inability to sort. Here are the instructions from Google on how to move your mail to a |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/29/13 1:13 PM | I really can't tell if you genuinely think you are being helpful or are just trolling. At the very least, this comes across as patronizing. I have no need to use gmail at my job and I don't know where that came from. My comments were regarding Googl |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 4/29/13 1:50 PM | I was trying to be helpful. "Go ahead and wiki that one" is patronizing. Discussion ended. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Terra Saylor | 4/30/13 6:06 AM | If you had bothered to do as I asked, you might not have thought so. In fact, you might have gained a new understanding of Google's origins, where they are today, and why some of us are so disappointed. It's always a personal choice to become more en |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 5/7/13 1:30 PM | Google is recognizing that a lack of Sort is a problem and that a sort feature is needed. They are allowing people to suggest the sort feature. https://support.google.com/mail/suggestions/16932 It is sickening to hear the Superior Ones denigrate thos |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 5/7/13 1:36 PM | To all those who want Google to have a common sense sort function, select "organization" then "sort" at this link: https://support.google.com/mail/suggestions/16932 |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | A Christensen | 5/7/13 2:33 PM | I did, thanks. -- ****************************************************************** Accuracy Related Penalties. The federal tax laws authorize the Internal Revenue Service in some cases to impose an accuracy related penalty on an underpayment of |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Vanessa Shaver | 5/7/13 3:41 PM | So, we could have just been politely directed to this place where we could request a SORT functionhttps://http://support.google.com/mail/suggestions/16932 instead of being: - taught repetedly how to use the very search function that we find insufficient - c |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 5/7/13 4:09 PM | That's what Archive is for, to remove the Inbox post-it from the message. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 5/7/13 4:18 PM | Vanessa, Yes on all accounts. The grumpy Elderly and superior ones on this forum have no desire for people to know that Google is interested in having a sort feature. It defeats their M.O. These superior types are like the old British doctors who sw |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 5/7/13 5:17 PM | Set up your labels, apply them to the email, then remove the "Inbox" label. Done: the email will be removed from your inbox. Libraries are a great example: a book has only one classification or ISBN, but several ways to find it. If I'm interested |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | LadyBug Park | 5/16/13 4:49 PM | Wow, and here I was annoyed with myself & and chalking up my frustration to user error! I went to the help button thinking, "Surely I can sort my email by date/sender I MUST not be paying attention!" Searched and I see so many complaints, I had no id |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Katrina May | 5/21/13 5:49 AM | Can't believe Google won't add column headers that you can sort by, or the ability to move columns in an order that suits you. Makes AOL look like a premium email tool. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Fuzzy | 5/21/13 3:50 PM | Nothing makes AOL look like a premium email tool. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | RandomGmailUser | 5/22/13 10:33 AM | Does anyone know of an add on, extension, lab, whatever... that can do this? FYI, I can't believe the number of non-technical people replying here who don't seem to know the difference between a sort and a search. -- The information contained in t |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/22/13 10:51 AM | RGU, The amount of non-technical people answering here is greatly outnumbered by the amount of people who think they are technically minded. It's the little things such as being able to post in a forum without the adding in of a security warning tha |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/22/13 11:14 AM | Katrina, Regard the Labels as column headers. Add them to the emails you need them for. Beverley, who has only been using Labels for a couple months now seems to find them far more useful then she ever found Sort and Folders. An email can have many |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | A Christensen | 5/22/13 12:41 PM | Hi C Man, I appreciate your example here and it does help me. I currently have emails with more than one label and it is helpful. The problem I run into (and maybe it's just because I'm new to this) is that I am constantly wanting to see all of th |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/22/13 2:04 PM | A, That's an easy one but I'll give the link to the advanced search terms first. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en It's subject:now you add the subject and if you find it tries to search individual emails that only have some of the |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | cartmanata | 5/26/13 6:29 AM | "If people do not like the Gmail as much as other email clients why is it now at the top of the heap with 450 plus million users?" BECAUSE THERE'S MILLIONS OF ANDROID USERS AND THEY SIMPLY HAVE TO OPEN A GMAIL ACCOUNT!! DUUUUUUHHHHHH!! And I'm one of |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/26/13 6:52 AM | If you cannot work without Sort stay where you are. If you can work with the best search function and know how to set up filters so Labels are automatically added and are prepared to learn something new then "come on down!". Take a look at https://s |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/26/13 7:09 AM | Further to my reply this is rolling out or US users. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | cartmanata | 5/26/13 2:52 PM | I'm always up for learning and using something new and yes Gmail search seems to be nice, I just don't need it to be this sophisticated. But I do need the Sort function so I guess I will be staying with Yahoo, thanks for your answer. Seems such a sim |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/26/13 3:45 PM | cartmanata, You say what kind of Sort you need and let me see if it's something that cannot be replicated in Gmail. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | ejroberts | 5/27/13 7:15 AM | Nonsense. By any definition, advanced Searching is not the same as sorting. Both techniques are useful for different purposes, and Gmail only has one of them. It must be hard to admit that AOL has Gmail beat in this area! One (very ugly, maybe too |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/27/13 9:26 AM | ej, Read the thread, We have suggested Thunderbird and Outlook many times as a third party with Sort. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Matthew Bromberg | 5/28/13 10:44 AM | Sorry gmail is incomprehensible to me. I am constantly losing important mail because I can't sort by date. Searching that requires typing arcane commands is not a viable option. I just don't use it often enough to remember those commands. I can und |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 5/28/13 11:23 AM | Cman and other senior members/aliases : Throughout this topic, You and others have suggested gmail users use outlook or thunderbird or other 3rd party apps. Does anyone here have any influence with Google at all? Have you suggested to Google that the |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/28/13 12:35 PM | Gmail does sort alphabetically (sort of) as long as you have the address in your Contacts. Open Contacts and hover over any name, a card will open and if you click on the word "Email" all those to and from will be listed. Not good enough? In the Inb |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gediz GÜRSU | 5/29/13 1:25 AM | Is there some deeper technical complication users are not aware of ? This afore mentioned sort button requests are huge efficiency and ergonomic increase in gmail product. I cant understand why to resist rather than adding 3 buttons ? Is it some cust |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gediz GÜRSU | 5/29/13 1:27 AM | My recent post is deleted as soon as I post it I try to recollect it again ? Adding sorting buttons to interface would increase ergonomic efficiency a lot Is there any other technical complication users are not aware of Is it a customer relation stra |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 5/29/13 4:19 AM | Gediz, Posts take time to show due to a standard procedure in all forums (I think) where there has to be a point which allows for a Moderator to scan. As far as I know Google does not Moderate but the opportunity has to be available. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Gediz GÜRSU | 5/29/13 9:26 AM | Thank you very much for your missing post related reply Could you reply to the original question as well please ? |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 5/29/13 9:54 AM | One reason that sorting would be a problem is because Gmail uses the conversation view (the grouping of messages based on subject). So if you have a conversation of 20 messages and you sort of date or sender, which message in the conversation do you |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | icantchooseone | 5/29/13 9:59 AM | http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 5/29/13 8:50 PM | BCK56, I appreciate the possible answer that you posted. What you wrote makes sense and it is very possible that Gmail simply painted themselves into a corner by ignoring the sort function. Once gmail was created it mightve been too expensive to desi |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 5/29/13 8:55 PM | Hopefully the new GMAIL will have a simple one-click alphabetical option. That would put an end to this thread except for those that wish to have a highly tuned search-based email system. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | bkc56 | 5/29/13 10:23 PM | I absolutely hate conversational view... That's interesting. I on the other hand would find it hard to manage my e-mail without it. The thought of having all those messages displayed independently (as they are in Outlook which I use at work) is ho |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | dentish | 6/2/13 12:05 AM | For all the data that Google mines off its users, they certainly seem indifferent to our needs. Clearly this thread indicates a persistent, clear and common sense need for sorting. The utter contempt in which Google holds its users is staggering. T |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | dentish | 6/2/13 12:07 AM | 26 iterations is your answer?? Really?? Perform this action 26 times is what you offer? How much more contempt can you have? I have some actions that I would like you to perform 26 times... |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/2/13 12:44 AM | dentish, Funny but my wife says the same thing. The search bar version is only necessary if you don't have them added to your Contacts and even then I would have expected you to remember roughly who you were looking for so you would probably only n |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Monica Rodelo | 6/2/13 6:27 PM | Can google mail sort e-mail by sender? If not why not create this option |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/2/13 11:09 PM | Monica, In the Search Bar use the term from:whoever by name if you have added them to your Contacts or the address if you haven't or hover over the name in an open email or in the name section of the Inbox to bring up a card and just click on Emails |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Beverly J. Goldrup | 6/3/13 10:42 AM | I have been criticized at least 26 times for writing that sort is unnecessary and even called a troll. I'm not a technological guru, but gmail works well for me now that I understand it. (I've also asked for a sort function, too. I'd really like i |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | j.ax | 6/4/13 9:29 PM | I was starting to use labels. I want to add labels to an email that I send. are there any Icons that I click? I have the new "new compose experience". It now requires 4 or 5 steps to add a label to an out-going email. I don't understand why adding l |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/5/13 1:15 AM | http://j.ax, Before you send it click on the menu arrow (bottom right) and Label is there. Only way I can see but it's the same amount of clicks I think. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/7/13 5:51 PM | The new inbox style doesn't sort alphabetically. It now lists an icon of a letter from the sender. The only thing sorted is the date. If it sorts by date the latest conversation could be sorted by sender with no extra steps or interaction required. L |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/7/13 10:13 PM | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically, I know there are 18 previous pages before you got to this one to post your thoughts so you may have missed one or a few on the way but you have just given me a chance to repeat the advice I have given |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/7/13 10:37 PM | I've read the pages I appreciate the instructions. I will try but if this requires continuous maintenance I won't do it. I use a smartphone and want one click solutions. That is how I want gmail to operate. It is ridiculous for any software be so c |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/7/13 10:47 PM | I also appreciate how instructions are posted here. Regardless of how people communicate. Gmail is frustrating and not easy to understand or explain. Its not easy for anyone. Its real tough for either not to be sarcastic or snarky. All the replies |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/8/13 12:15 AM | Try posting in the forum that is associated with your mobile phone. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/8/13 12:35 AM | I should've said the word "also" . |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Pride532 | 6/8/13 5:48 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/8/13 6:27 AM | Pride, The figure is closer to 450 million and you are making the assumption that more than a hundred times the amount of posters complaining about the lack of sort are actually worried about it. Even if the amount was that high it would still be le |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | ejroberts | 6/8/13 8:38 AM | Here's one that I really wanted sort for, and would appreciate how to do this as easily using search. Let's say I've let old mail accumulate to an embarrassing number (ok, I confess, it's true); most of it is worthless, but there is maybe <1% gold sp |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/8/13 8:59 AM | The search is normal. If you have added them to your Contacts look there or find an email from the person and use the advice previously given (It's my one to gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically). There are Advanced Search terms you can us |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/8/13 9:21 AM | Ed, Good description of how alphabetized emails are useful. At times I use email the same way. I want to simply see all the mail from contacts and non contacts line up in alpha order. It is actually more important to see non-contacts appear in alpha |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/8/13 10:03 AM | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically, You had to pick the hardest one of all and it does take a little work but here's my quick thought on how to do it. - Create a specific Label such as "Not These". - Go through your Contacts as I desc |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | gmail is still unable to sort in alphabetically | 6/8/13 11:53 AM | I will try this. If this works, From what I can tell from reading this forum, many people will be satisfied because this is partially what they want to do. I really wished there was a wizard that would assist us users who just cant devote time to mai |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/8/13 12:22 PM | I tried it very quickly and it should work and evidently I seem to be the closest to a wizard you will find. Took me ten minutes to work that one out. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Shyam vemuri | 6/9/13 12:32 PM | It prove Google doesn't know how to make UI , that is easy and works. I have been using Outlook.com and its super advanced than gmail |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 6/10/13 11:34 AM | A couple years ago (plus or minus), I "unsubscribed" to this site, having had quite enough of C Man's arrogance and lack of effort to actually be of help to anyone. So, all was well; I was no longer plagued with receiving messages from the "Elder Adv |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/10/13 1:16 PM | Skorpytoo, If they go to your Trash they should have deleted after thirty days and if you unsubscribed you should not be receiving anything so I suggest you look at the bottom of any of the received emails for the line "To unsubscribe from this grou |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Skorpytoo | 6/11/13 7:35 AM | Thank you, C Man. I DID unsubscribe with the addy at the bottom, but I will try the method that you diagrammed. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Steven Psaros | 6/14/13 9:27 AM | This is my problem exactly! THere seems to be too many nuances to comply with. KISS! I'm not a email aficionado whos got the time to spend tweeking B.S. like some computer geek who has nothing else to do. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | brian Gardner | 6/14/13 9:34 AM | There is nothing unreasonable about wanting to sort out all of the emails I get, so I can go down the list and find the email I received 15 days ago regarding a project sent by one of the 50 or so work associates I have, among maybe even 40 pages of |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/14/13 11:16 AM | brian, Guessing the sender is in your Contacts you only need to hover over his name to see a card come up and clicking in the word Emails will bring up all the emails too and from. You can then click on the menu arrow in the Search bar and add the d |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Roy N Bennett | 6/17/13 8:57 AM | Google is too big company to take care about their customer. For that for example millions of people want SORT easy their email and Google don't want. Google Rule: Customer are shit ! |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | Roy N Bennett | 6/17/13 9:02 AM | Google is a big company and like all big company they don't care to their customer. Google don't want create easy sort like other email companies. Google Rule: We don't care about customer. |
| Re: Sort Gmail messages by date, subject, sender | The C Man (Elder Advisor - Mobile Laureate) | 6/17/13 10:21 AM | Roy, If Sort is so good why are others following Google's lead and adding Search? Check back through this thread (there's only 20 pages) and you'll find some things Search can do that Sort cannot at speed without using a lot of processing power whic |