Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Gmail: Label Organization

Google sorts your labels by which ones are used most. But I would like to have drag and drop label sorting with dividers. It would be nice.

Gmail: Custom Spam Removal Timer

At the moment Gmail clears out spam that is older than 30 days, but why not have options to clear it certain days of the week, or certain times, or both.

Calendar: Add Attachments to Calendar Events

It would be great to be able to attach files, PDFs or Word Docs, or even Google Docs, to calendar events. This would be very useful for adding notes to meetings, or sending sections of group projects to the manager.

Gmail: Email Tags

I've heard this from a few people, and personally, I would never use it, but, here it is. You should be able to apply tags to emails for easy searching later on. I would never tag a single email, but plenty of people who would. Labels are great, but individual tags for each email are even greater when you need to search.

Calendar: Add Birthdays in Gmail Contacts to Google Calendar

There should be a dedicated calendar in Google Calendar, and if you input a birthday for a contact in Gmail, it should automatically add it to that calendar. Enough said.

Gmail: Translate on the Fly

There is an option under settings to have all emails translated into your default language, but why stop there? Why not have an optional drop down language selector for any recieved, or composed, email. So I should be able to type an email in English, and translate it into Spanish when I send it. And translate the Spanish reply, into English. This would eliminate the need for another translator, such as Babel Fish, or Google Translate.

Gmail: Right Side Whatever You Like

Chat is on the right side of your inbox (with the lab option turned on), for a while you had the option to put labels on the right too, and with the "Navbar Drag and Drop" lab you are able to drag and drop any feature to anywhere on the left side of your inbox. But my question is why, why not on the right side of the inbox? This is probably the most requested feature, and people also agree that this is a simple, easy, tweak, that should have been there in the first place.

Chat: Status Log for Chat

Another desirable feature would be a status history for google chat. More or less like a mini twitter. It's always nice to reminisce, and things like these help to do just that.

Gmail: Alert for Inability to Connect to POP Accounts

When you get a Gmail account, it's great to be able to download emails from other accounts using POP. But for many people, they are forced to change their passwords by their school/work/security setup. But, when Gmail can no longer access your account, it doesn't act any differently. It wont notify you. In fact, it just says that there is no new mail from the account. There needs to be a notification that google can no longer access the old account, and is no longer retrieving emails via POP.

Gmail: Filter Emails Based on Time Recieved

Filtering emails in Gmail is a great way to customize, and it's by far my favorite tool. For people with a work and a personal account, it would be handy to be able to have emails forwarded to your personal account while you're out of office. Most people have a certain time of day when they're out of office, and know when that time is. If you had the ability to filter emails according to the time you received them, you would be able to forward those emails to your personal account.