Merge Conversations

[Sam Hasler]

Sometimes Gmail doesn't correctly identify mails as part of a
conversation. It would be useful to have a way to manually merge two
emails/conversations. It should of course have an immediate undo
feature and there should probably be a similar split functionality.

[Kelsey]

Yes, I'd like to be able to place replies in the same conversation
even if the person who replies to me chooses to change the subject
line.
Kelsey

[SE.M....@gmail.com]

This is a very goood idea ... please processed

we REally Need to be able to merge Messages ( by date ) so that if
some one changed the Subject

we can still have them grouped in the a Conversation :)

we Love you Google :)

[SE.M....@gmail.com]

also ... we would like to be able to Add messages to the conversation
and Delete Messages From the Conversation

Thanx Google :) we Love you

[glue]

Seconded.. a merge conversation feature would be usefull

[Vincent Danos]

this is the first since ever on my wish list -i absolutely concur!
that and the ability to edit mails

[Sam Hasler]

Actually you can delete messages from the conversation already. If you
click the arrow in the top right corner of a message it will show a
menu with the option "Delete this message".

[Yala]

I hope see it sooner.
Thanks.

[Popeman]

I absolutely agree. This feature should have been in Gmail since day
one, and I can't fathom what's so hard about implementing it that I've
had to live with improperly threaded emails the whole time. Gmail
labs is the perfect opportunity to try out any ideas that have been
thrown about the office in the past without repercussions, and I bet
you'll get huge amounts of feedback... maybe enough to make it a full
feature!

So do it. You know you want to.

[mike t]

I agree 100%

[Brian Oppenheim]

I'd definitely push for both a merge and a split.

[Bonnie]

Yes please!!!!

It would be so helpful....

On Jun 7, 9:37 am, Sam Hasler wrote:

[stephendolenc]

please add this feature

[Tyson]

I would also like the ability to merge and split.

[Durlov]

Yes just the thoughts that went through my head today.

On Jun 7, 12:37 pm, Sam Hasler wrote:

> Sometimes Gmail doesn't correctly identify mails as part of aconversation. It would be useful to have a way to manuallymergetwo

[bnation]

Absolutely would love this feature.

[Fred Calm]

Sorry, but that's something else, not what this thread is about.

You can't take them a message out of a conversation and have it stand
alone in its own conversation container or move it into another
conversation. If you delete a message from its conversation, it goes
into the trash, and if you recover it from Trash, it goes back into
the original container.

</Fred>


On Jun 21, 7:44 am, Sam Hasler wrote:
> ...

[Fred Calm]

Yes, a conversation editor is sorely needed.

Some have already noted that for various reasons, chief among them
that someone changed the subject header, Gmail often fails to
recognize that an incoming message is not put into the conversation it
belongs to but into a new conversation. It would be nice to merge it
in where it belongs.

Besides that, sometimes people change the subject without touching the
header, as when seeing a message from you somebody who wants to
contact you about something else just replies instead of composing a
new message. When moving a message from one coversation into a new
one, it would be nice to change the subject header. The G Groups (and
if I recall correctly, Usenet too) convention of adding "Was <old
subject> to the end of the new subject header would be fine.

Taking it a step further, a tree view, like the one G Groups offers,
would be nice. I understand that it would muck up the interface, which
is pretty slick on the whole, so I can live with the flat,
chronologically ordered list.

[I would have preferred to reply to the original post, but's it's old
enough that G Groups doesn't allow replies. Replying here was the best
I could do for getting close to the root of the tree.]

</Fred>

[Sam Hasler]

I was responding to the previous poster's additional request for the
ability to "Delete Messages From the Conversation" by pointing out
that it was already possible, so it wasn't completely out of the blue,
or without context.

(As the person that started the thread you'd think I'd know what it
was about.)

Sam

[Fred Calm]

I'm sorry if I sounded harsh. I won't belabor the point, but moving
messages to the trash and splitting them out of conversations strike
me as distinct notions. Although SE.M.Sobhy's choice of words may have
suggested otherwise, in context, my take on their second post was that
they were talking about splitting, not trashing.

</Fred>

[peteralexisthompson]

Adding my vote. This feature would save me a ton of time and, unless
I'm mistaken, no other app has this capability...

[Svetozar Bajcev]

Here's my vote, too. It would be a great help in organising my
conversations.

[Paweł Sobczak]

It's a must-be idea.
My conversations are scattered since some people add 're:' in the
beginning

[Stephan Goral]

I would also love having the ability to merge conversations.

[changes]

Another vote from me, this kind of feature would help me alot!

[JTK]

I agree, merge and split would be an excellent feature add.

JTK


On Jun 29, 2:04 pm, Brian Oppenheim wrote:
> I'd definitely push for both amergeand a split.

[MACS]

I DESPERATELY need a to split and merge conversations!!!!!

Conversations/Threads are supposed to keep things ORGANIZED, isn't
that the whole point?? Well, it's not working that way... and I'm
getting totally LOST.

I use Gmail for my business and I have already replied to a few people
TWICE about the same thing because they happened to have changed the
Subject line (even slightly), so then I had 2 parts of the same
conversation and got all confused having to do a Search to find out
what they had said before or what I had responded.

I vote a million times to have a Split/Merge feature added ASAP!!!!!!!



On Aug 28, 1:50 am, JTK wrote:
> I agree, merge andsplitwould be an excellent feature add.

[flight16]

Another vote for split/merge conversations. Very needed.

[itssri]

A TRILLION votes from me too.

I use Google Apps email for about a dozen of my domains and have a
Gmail account as the primary email address and I really would like to
have a manual MERGE option as well as a SPLIT option to organize the
conversations.

Best regards to the Gmail team and best wishes to all of us feature
seekers.

On Aug 30, 11:21 am, MACS wrote:
> I DESPERATELY need a to split andmergeconversations!!!!!
>
> Conversations/Threads are supposed to keep things ORGANIZED, isn't
> that the whole point?? Well, it's not working that way... and I'm
> getting totally LOST.
>
> I use Gmail for my business and I have already replied to a few people
> TWICE about the same thing because they happened to have changed the
> Subject line (even slightly), so then I had 2 parts of the same
> conversation and got all confused having to do a Search to find out
> what they had said before or what I had responded.
>

> I vote a million times to have a Split/Mergefeature added ASAP!!!!!!!

>
> On Aug 28, 1:50 am, JTK wrote:
>

> > I agree,mergeandsplitwould be an excellent feature add.

[Anson Kao]

Another trillion votes.

This is fundamental, it should not need convincing. Gmail guys,
PLEASE DO IT!

> > > > > feature and there should probably be a similarsplitfunctionality.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[doubledup]

Me too!

On Sep 25, 4:28 pm, Anson Kao wrote:
> Another trillion votes.
>
> This is fundamental, it should not need convincing.  Gmailguys,
> PLEASE DO IT!
>
> On Sep 16, 6:59 am, itssri wrote:
>
> > A TRILLION votes from me too.
>
> > I use Google Apps email for about a dozen of my domains and have a

> >Gmailaccount as the primary emailaddressand I really would like to

> > have a manual MERGE option as well as a SPLIT option to organize the
> > conversations.
>

> > Best regards to theGmailteam and best wishes to all of us feature

> > seekers.
>
> > On Aug 30, 11:21 am, MACS wrote:
>
> > > I DESPERATELY need a to split andmergeconversations!!!!!
>
> > > Conversations/Threads are supposed to keep things ORGANIZED, isn't
> > > that the whole point?? Well, it's not working that way... and I'm
> > > getting totally LOST.
>

> > > I useGmailfor my business and I have already replied to a few people

> > > TWICE about the same thing because they happened to have changed the
> > > Subject line (even slightly), so then I had 2 parts of the same
> > > conversation and got all confused having to do a Search to find out
> > > what they had said before or what I had responded.
>
> > > I vote a million times to have a Split/Mergefeature added ASAP!!!!!!!
>
> > > On Aug 28, 1:50 am, JTK wrote:
>
> > > > I agree,mergeandsplitwould be an excellent feature add.
>
> > > > JTK
>
> > > > On Jun 29, 2:04 pm, Brian Oppenheim wrote:
>
> > > > > I'd definitely push for both amergeand asplit.
>
> > > > > On Jun 7, 9:37 am, Sam Hasler wrote:
>

> > > > > > SometimesGmaildoesn't correctly identify mails as part of a

> > > > > >conversation. It would be useful to have a way to manuallymergetwo
> > > > > > emails/conversations. It should of course have an immediate undo

> > > > > > feature and there should probably be a similarsplitfunctionality.-Hidequoted text -

[James McMurray]

Count me as another enthusiastic "Yes Please!" Gmail's conversation
feature is the reason I switched from Hotmail and the reason I'll
never use another email program that doesn't have it (unless I'm
forced to by my job). Adding even more functionality to it would rock.

On Sep 30, 3:44 pm, doubledup wrote:
> Me too!
>
> On Sep 25, 4:28 pm, Anson Kao wrote:
>
> > Another trillion votes.
>
> > This is fundamental, it should not need convincing.  Gmailguys,
> > PLEASE DO IT!
>
> > On Sep 16, 6:59 am, itssri wrote:
>
> > > A TRILLION votes from me too.
>
> > > I use Google Apps email for about a dozen of my domains and have a
> > >Gmailaccount as the primary emailaddressand I really would like to

> > > have a manualMERGEoption as well as a SPLIT option to organize the

[Tomek]

Yes! I would really love this. It would make the conversation feature
in Gmail very very useful and significantly unclutter my inbox/
archive. I'd love to merge many individual emails and conversations.
Please implement this soon.

[Caue C M Rego]

Merge and Split ftw!

I've suggested it many times now, and I bet many people did the same.
Hope to see it soon, and truly wonder why it's not done yet! I mean
it. I'd love to see sources of gmail. :P

[Hector]

Oh yes please!! I want this ASAP!
Good idea!! very useful

[tirabo]

Ok. Great idea!!!

On 6 oct, 19:49, Hector <hectorma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh yes please!! I want this ASAP!
> Good idea!! very useful
>
> On 27 Ago, 00:24, changes wrote:
>
> > Another vote from me, this kind of feature would help me alot!
>
> > On Aug 20, 9:00 am, Stephan Goral wrote:
>
> > > I would also love having the ability tomergeconversations.
>
> > > On Aug 18, 8:31 pm, Paweł Sobczak wrote:
>
> > > > It's a must-be idea.

> > > > Myconversationsare scattered since some people add 're:' in the
> > > > beginning

[tos42]

+1, would be very useful

[Zucye]

I couldn't agree more. This feature is a must!!!

I use Google Apps email to manage my domains' emails and I love it.
Make it better, please implement a way to split and merge
conversations

:)
Zucye

[skreech2]

Gotta add to the dogpile of love on this suggestion. +1

[CerberuS]

Here's another reason why SPLIT/MERGE conversation is a great idea

I (and many other users) are not native English (Latin alphabet)
speakers, our languages have their own letters, which are far
different from the ones I am using now to express my point, and
sometimes due to the fact that not all email clients/apps. use the
same encoding for these letters (there are many standards not just
Unicode), we get replies to the same conversation with an altered
different subject (such as squares or gibberish because the far end
email client or OS misinterpret it), thus we end up with more than one
thread for the same conversation, and it would be a hassle to keep
track of all, especially when you need to find something later.

If voting helps, then I vote 6 Billion times (on behalf of every non
native English speaker)

Regards

[Caesar's Grunt]

Yes, this feature is definitely nessescary and I can't understand why
it isn't a part of Gmail and GAFYD already, since the conversation-
sorter isn't that intelligent.
PLEASE add it, Google!!!

[trembla...@gmail.com]

I agree! We gotta get on this.

[skreech2]

Wait what? Thre are only 1 Billion people who speak English?

On Oct 26, 12:54 am, CerberuS wrote:
> Here's another reason why SPLIT/MERGE conversation is a great idea
>
> I (and many other users) are not native English (Latin alphabet)
> speakers, our languages have their own letters, which are far
> different from the ones I am using now to express my point, and
> sometimes due to the fact that not all email clients/apps. use the
> same encoding for these letters (there are many standards not just
> Unicode), we get replies to the same conversation with an altered
> different subject (such as squares or gibberish because the far end
> email client or OS misinterpret it), thus we end up with more than one
> thread for the same conversation, and it would be a hassle to keep
> track of all, especially when you need to find something later.
>
> If voting helps, then I vote 6 Billion times (on behalf of every non
> native English speaker)
>
> Regards
>

> On Oct 23, 7:36 am, skreech2 <[email address]> wrote:
>
> > Gotta add to the dogpile of love on this suggestion. +1
>

[Provolino]

Another vote from me, I desperatly need this feature (same reasons of
CerberuS)

> > > > Zucye- Hide quoted text -

[Rob S]

vote from me too-
i dont get why nothing has come out since people have been suggesting
this since the summer

thanks for everything gmail guys!

> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

[Provolino]

I agree, this is one of the most wanted feature for gmail users and I
don't understand why developers ignore it :(

[misskitty.79]

Excellentest idea ever!!!

The fact that this thread alone has been going since the summer makes
me wonder whether the devs are boycotting it for some reason, since
they've GOT to know by now that being able to split &/or merge
conversations would be such a huge help!

[Jen79]

Just adding my vote too. :-)

[tfdce]

Please add it Gmail!

[Merge Conversations]

My vote too, I've been wanting this feature ever since I joined
Gmail.

Conversations are Gmail's headline feature so it is crazy that it is
incomplete. Conversations are a natural way to organize mail, similar
to the way the human brain files information. Of course computers
cannot always tell which messages belong together, so there has to be
a manual way to merge conversations, and ideally split them as well.

Come on Google, what are you waiting for! You should be proud of the
Conversations feature and make it as useful as can be not half-baked
like this!

On Oct 26, 5:54 am, CerberuS wrote:
> Here's another reason why SPLIT/MERGE conversation is a great idea
>
> I (and many other users) are not native English (Latin alphabet)
> speakers, our languages have their own letters, which are far
> different from the ones I am using now to express my point, and
> sometimes due to the fact that not all email clients/apps. use the
> same encoding for these letters (there are many standards not just
> Unicode), we get replies to the same conversation with an altered
> different subject (such as squares or gibberish because the far end
> email client or OS misinterpret it), thus we end up with more than one
> thread for the same conversation, and it would be a hassle to keep
> track of all, especially when you need to find something later.
>
> If voting helps, then I vote 6 Billion times (on behalf of every non
> native English speaker)
>
> Regards
>

> On Oct 23, 7:36 am, skreech2 <[email address]> wrote:
>
> > Gotta add to the dogpile of love on this suggestion. +1
>

[GJH]

Glad to see so many other people want conversation merging. Sorry to
see that this feature was requested ages ago on the gmail help group
and still hasn't manifested.

Please, please, please get the merge facility in. I don't care what
the merged conversation is called.

[Rubeno]

I agree on this too! I am dying to get this feature.

r

On Nov 24, 5:35 am, Merge Conversations wrote:
> My vote too, I've been wanting this feature ever since I joined
> Gmail.
>
> Conversations are Gmail's headline feature so it is crazy that it is
> incomplete. Conversations are a natural way to organize mail, similar
> to the way the human brain files information. Of course computers
> cannot always tell which messages belong together, so there has to be

> a manual way to mergeconversations, andideally split them as well.

[Rubeno]

I agree. I definitely want to see a "merge/spli" option in the
conversations.

r

[david.t]

I agree - merge and split would be great.

[CMurphy]

I would love to see a "merge conversations" option. I teach, so it
would be great if I could merge together all of the questions I get
about a particular test, for example. I may not be able to reply to
some emails immediately, so it would be great to be able to group and
organize them this way in my inbox. Also, I think it would be very
intuitive, since when using "snail mail" one of the first things that
someone does is group their mail into things like "bills", "ads",
"junk", etc. Being able to label or archive them as a batch would
also be handy.

On Nov 24, 6:35 am, Merge Conversations wrote:
> My vote too, I've been wanting this feature ever since I joined
> Gmail.
>

> Conversationsare Gmail's headline feature so it is crazy that it is
> incomplete.Conversationsare a natural way to organize mail, similar

> to the way the human brain files information. Of course computers
> cannot always tell which messages belong together, so there has to be

> a manual way tomergeconversations, and ideally split them as well.
>
> Come on Google, what are you waiting for! You should be proud of theConversationsfeature and make it as useful as can be not half-baked

> like this!
>
> On Oct 26, 5:54 am, CerberuS wrote:
>

> > Here's another reason why SPLIT/MERGEconversation is a great idea

[JWil...@gmail.com]

I Also agree this would be a very utilized feature especially in
businesses , it could also be used for Inventory and such in case
Quickbooks goes out lol.... Im not liking quickbooks lol...

[Andre92]

+1
How come it's not already done ???

On Nov 24, 12:35 pm, Merge Conversations wrote:
> My vote too, I've been wanting this feature ever since I joined
> Gmail.
>
> Conversations are Gmail's headline feature so it is crazy that it is
> incomplete. Conversations are a natural way to organize mail, similar
> to the way the human brain files information. Of course computers
> cannot always tell which messages belong together, so there has to be

> a manual way tomergeconversations, and ideally split them as well.

>
> Come on Google, what are you waiting for! You should be proud of the
> Conversations feature and make it as useful as can be not half-baked
> like this!
>
> On Oct 26, 5:54 am, CerberuS wrote:
>

> > Here's another reason why SPLIT/MERGEconversation is a great idea

[Nira-chan]

+1

Ni

[Marco Meoni]

+1, very good idea!

On 10 Dic, 14:46, Nira-chan wrote:
> +1
>
> Ni

[jtphelan]

HUGE vote for me! A must have! Can't believe it's not already built in.

[bigMike01star]

agree, both the merge and split conversations features are excellent
ideas!!

Edit Subjects:

Not sure if this was said but I think the ability to edit/rename
subjects would be a great addition to incorporate into this feature.
Sometime people don't know how to sum up their emails in the subject.
As it would happen, the email you desperately search for had a bad
subject of "Hey!", now thats really descriptive or better yet, "(no
subject)." I understand you can search everywhere include the body and
generally you can find the email you desire but this helps when you're
looking in the inbox or a list of searched items.

The only hang up is the edit subject feature would affect the
"conversation" categorization in other gmailer's inboxes. This could
be eliminated by making the edit subject feature a user specific edit.
Only the editor would see the changed subject or it could be a note
that takes the place of the subject only in the user's account.

Do it, Do it!

Thanks Gmail, you make emailing Fun again!

[Eugenen]

+1 From me

[sh...@haywardmail.net]

+1 for this!

So many times I get a reply from someone who has tweaked the subject
(or from a customer service center that generates a new subject) - It
would be so much easier if I could say thread A and thread B all
belong in the same conversation!

(and conversely there are times where a conversation changes mid
replies, or someone starts a new conversation by replying on an old
message - a way to split conversations would also be useful).

On Feb 17, 10:00 pm, bigMike01star wrote:
> agree, both themergeand split conversations features are excellent

[boosh]

YES please! this would be awesome!

[bestycame]

+1! it would be the next GREAT and usefull Lab feature!

[robert.lensing]

I would defenedly use this feature often - it happens all the times,
that people I wrote answer me in a new eMail. So GMail starts a new
conversation. I hate that! I would really really like such a feature!

[Hector]

Good idea!!
vote it here:
http://moderator.appspot.com/#15/e=497ea&t=48475

[Ney]

+1 from me.

[NicoJ]

Have I already said that? Me too, +1.

[Augusta]

Definitely a +1.

Come on Google!

[Bardin]

Cmooon! Surely this will be an obvious hit! I googled hoping to find
i'd missed the option somehow :(

[Nilzão]

My vote too,

merge_now() {
}

[Geraldo Augusto Vecchiato]

+1!

[Ladóczki Bence]

Absolutely +1, hope you can fix it ASAP

On júl. 8, 23:12, Geraldo Augusto Vecchiato wrote:
> +1!

[MACS22]

*****ATTENTION:*****

To everybody who has voted here and are still voting for a "Split/
Merge Conversations" feature...

Google may not be reading these at all....

So how about everyone go to their "Suggest a Feature" page???? Then
they WILL take it into consideration... not here!!!!

Every couple of weeks, I go to that page and ask for the "Split/Merge
Conversations" feature. Problem is... it's not even on the list they
have there, which means that not too many people are asking for it...

So here's how to do it...

1) Go to: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs

2) Go all the way to the bottom where it says "I have another idea"

3) Select "Message Organizing"

4) Select "Other"

5) Write in the text box "The ability to Split/Merge Conversations",
and whatever other detail you wish... like how important this is to
you... make your life easier, etc...

6) Click "Suggest it!"

7) KEEP DOING THIS as often as you can!!!

Thanks,
Alex

[Deceth]

Any progress over the last three years? :)

[Rich W]

This feature needs to be released already, people have been wanting
this forever.

[martinm]

I agree, it would be great to have this.

[Leonardo Taschetto]

Wanted feature. Did any developer ever said a word about it?

[Mac Administrator]

Yes this feature would be useful

[Nick Hope]

+1

I really want to be able to merge conversations.

[jaks...@gmail.com]

To merge by date and hour, so they will be chronologically combined into one email. Because they just don`t listen whey you say to answer to this email not to write another one. Now i have multiple emails on one topic and i`m searching to find the right one. 

[Wingtips]

Definitely need to be able to merge.  For instance if a conversation starts with the word URGENT in the subject it's courteous to remove that when the 'urgent' aspect is dealt with.  But in conversation mode that's not a good idea so I'm now bombarded with URGENT emails that aren't urgent at all...

On Saturday, June 7, 2008 5:37:14 PM UTC+1, Sam Hasler wrote:

Sometimes Gmail doesn't correctly identify mails as part of a
conversation. It would be useful to have a way to manually merge two
emails/conversations. It should of course have an immediate undo
feature and there should probably be a similar split functionality.

[Anouk HABOLD]

+1 ! I'm using gmail for a couple of month and I've need this feature quickly, but what a surprise when I've searched it on internet : gmail users are asking for it since 2005 !!! and still not a such feature (but a lot of "less usefull"...) in the lab !! after 6 years and a lot of suggestions, hope the "Split/Merge Conversations" button will be available soon!!!

[nicole...@pearson.com]

Agreed.

[breandax]

I agree! It would be a great feature.

[Pierre Ebeling]

Would be very useful!

[GCB1966]

According to your notes it has been NINE years now...So I won't hold my breath!!

You can still do it in your settings...Cumbersome, yes...but it is there!

(BTW, this Forum was established in 2008 or SIX yrs ago :-)

[Brian G]

Conversation manual merge would be very useful when someone sends me an addendum to an email they just sent me, as a completely separate email. Unfortunately it happens a lot.

[Goofy 235]

Sam Hasler started this "string" on 6/7/2008, Brian G...or like 8.5 years ago.

I would not hold any hope that Google will jump-in now...after 89 posts by 78 authors...

Also:

(copy/paste from an old posting)

Has been requested by many Gmail users since 2008 - the year this Forum started.

Ignored by Google :-(

In case you think someone from Google monitors this forum or this is a popularity contest, take a look at:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature/Wz55gyU03h4

So, keep on asking/+1/begging/pleading/cajoling/threatening, you never know...BUT, don't ​hope​ for a miracle :-)