At work, I'm often called upon to serve as the guru for all things Google Apps. The fact is sometimes lost that (a) working on the innards of something and (b) being the expert at all its glorious features are two quite distinct propositions.
It doesn't help that I don't just dismiss some of these questions, perhaps out of fear of ridicule ("Hey, shouldn't you just ... know that? I mean, weren't you paying attention?")
But then he raised the stakes and asked if there's a way to search unread mail with a single click. That took me a good part of the afternoon, because the GreaseMonkey scripts I found on the net were all old or non-functional in some way.
So I created a simple one. Its adds a "Search Unread" button to your GMail UI. You need GreaseMonkey to use it. So...
- Install GreaseMonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
- Install my script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33056
Meanwhile, with Google Apps, I do reserve a few undocumented or otherwise not-so-well-known tricks to distract my young Skywalkers when next I'm cornered and stumped.
And now that I'm all wound up, if you've got a great need for some GreaseMonkey UI enhancement for Google Apps, let me know.
081012 Update: The GMail UI changes its element IDs from time to time. I've posted a fix to follow the latest change.
100225 Update: I've posted a more robust version.
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Cool, thanks, mynameismolotov! That would work for a great many users.
Actually I was aware of the Labs and Quick Link features in GMail (I was with the GMail team at Google) (*). However that is not yet available for Google-Apps-For-Your-Domain users, and that was the original use case I was being asked to help with.
Besides, it's cooler to do hack up a GreaseMonkey script!
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(*) Of course, I'm learning new things about GMail from how other people use it all the time---see my original comment :-)
Hi Geoff, probably the 2 most reliable ways to do what you want are:
1. Use GMail's "plus addressing" support. See , e.g., http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/19/cybernotes-using-gmail-filters/ and look for "plus addressing".
2. Have GMail's mail fetcher retrieve your ohio.edu account to your gmail.com account, and in the process it will apply whatever label you wish. See, e.g., http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/12/screenshots-of-gmails-mail-fetcher.html .
Enjoy.
Any chance you could make a Mark as Unread button to go along with the Gmail labs Mark as Read? Seems such a basic item, but they still have not introduced it.
Than you!
Hi,
Thanks for posting this, you delivered exactly what I was looking for. Both options are great approaches (I am a Firefox/Greasemonkey user).
While I was looking at the Labs for the Quick Links option I came across Multiple Inboxes (which is probably newer than this post I guess). That gives NO click access and is the route I have chosen on balance.
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