Marking All Unread in Gmail
I accrue unread messages in my Gmail account. Press releases, conversations I've dealt with in other contexts. Whatever. They add up, and by now many of them are so old that I'm never going to deal with them. Which is why it's annoying that Gmail doesn't have an easy way to just mark everything as "read."
Except it does. On a whim, I tried searching for "label:unread" in Gmail and voilà! All my unread messages. I had to go through about three pages, select all, mark as read, and go to the next. But that took less than a minute. Sweet.
posted by Derrick @ 7:11 PM
4 Comments:
Derrick - even easier - just 'select all' and mark as unread.
(it doesn't affect any mails which are filtered in subfolders, though, but for me that is a good thing.)
Stupid Blogger; I just noticed your comment.
My problem with "Select All Unread" is that it only works on the current page. When you have unread messages scattered across 4000 pages...well, it's time-consuming.
If I run such a search I get 1-20 from thousands [unread messages]. It's quite obvious that all these AJAX office-copycats have still quite a bit to learn from real client side tools.
Really? That's surprising that it worked differently for you.
Yeah, web apps are nice and all, but a good client-side app still wins.
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