Re: Toggle the "conversation view" function

[Warren Howard]

I would like this feature too.  I switch between conversation view on and off quite regularly and a "quick toggle" button would help.

Regards,

Warren.

On Thursday, 19 April 2012 10:35:50 UTC+5:30, eternal_now wrote:

It would be nice to have a button that would toggle the conversation
view on and off.

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[Riccardo Casero]

I would be an happy user of this feature as well!

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[Bruce Garlock]

I agree.  I would like this as well, and it may help to get new users to understand how conversation view is designed, especially for those who are used to replying to messages at the top, so that the last reply is always listed first.  Being able to toggle this would be great.  (Also in the Gmail Android app :-)

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

It would be nice to have a button that would toggle the conversation
view on and off.

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[Hendrick Melo]

I second the motion.  I love conversation view, but I need to change it all the time so I can "go back in time" to see what was said and when.  It's hard to backtrack when you were doing what if the dates of the messages are all hidden within the conversations.

[Patty Myers]

I would like this, too. I normally prefer conversation view but sometimes want to turn it off, like when I want to be sure only part of a conversation is forwarded to someone else. 

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[Michael Gillen]

Another vote for Toggle Conversation View On/Off, especially since it is not always accurate as to what is a conversation.

Thanks,

-Michael

[cormac....@soapbox.co.uk]

I'm surprised this thread has gone silent for so long. This feature would make it a lot easier to manage my work email, because the conversations can really stretch on. 

[Earthman Empowerment Services]

+1 this feature too....would be SO useful.  Would also help Gmail newbie's awareness that the feature exists....

[Craig Francis]

+1 ... prefer conversation view most of the time (when using a browser), but occasionally need to return a single email to inbox for IMAP access.

[e-Patient Dave deBronkart]

Yes, it'd be INFINITELY better than the many-click cha-cha.  

As others have said (in this thread and another), the big use case here is search.  When I want to find the newest email from Charlie with an attachment, or from Charlie to Janet, it does me NO good to show me every CONVERSATION.    

This puts in me in an annoying "what are the odds?" guessing game.  If I guess wrong and the answer's *relatively* easy to find, I've wasted the time going in and out of settings twice.  But if I guess wrong, don't go into settings, and hope I'll find it with more rummaging and don't, then I've wasted time that way.

So basically every time this comes up it puts me in the annoying position of knowing that the lack of a technologically simple feature means there's a good chance I'm going to waste some time because of difficulty searching.  From Google??  Are you kidding me??? :-)

(If there were a KickStarter campaign for this feature, I'd go pitch in $100 right now.  I'm not kidding.)

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[e-Patient Dave deBronkart]

[Forgot to click "email updates to me"]

[kent...@gmail.com]

I Very much agree. It is much easier to search for an email if conversation view is off. Otherwise you find many long chains of emails that you need to search through. Please add a button to allow easy switching!!

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[Jaeseok Park]

I would like this feature, too.

2012년 4월 19일 목요일 오후 2시 5분 50초 UTC+9, eternal_now 님의 말:

[anon]

Ditto.

[Antonio Perez Jr.]

I want this feature too.

WHY IS GOOGLE SO SLOW IN IMPROVING GMAIL? THEY SPEND SO MANY TIME AND MONEY ON THAT GARBAGE G+ WHICH NO ONE CARES ABOUT AND LEAVE THE GMAIL ASIDE.

[James Piper]

I would also like this feature.  Going into settings to turn it on and off is annoying.

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:05:50 PM UTC-7, eternal_now wrote:

It would be nice to have a button that would toggle the conversation
view on and off.

 

 

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[Jaeseok Park]

This feature is not developed, so I've found an idea instead of the toggle button.

Open gmail with 2 tabs of browser.

One tab is for conversation view on and the other is for off.

Both settings seem to be distinguished.

2012년 4월 19일 목요일 오후 2시 5분 50초 UTC+9, eternal_now 님의 말:

It would be nice to have a button that would toggle the conversation
view on and off.

[Jaeseok Park]

This feature is not developed, so I've found an idea instead of the toggle button.

Open gmail with 2 tabs of browser.

One tab is for conversation view on and the other is for off.

Both settings seem to be distinguished.

2012년 4월 19일 목요일 오후 2시 5분 50초 UTC+9, eternal_now 님의 말:

It would be nice to have a button that would toggle the conversation
view on and off.

[Kurt Pipa]

I too would like this feature.

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[Dave Boylan]

Desperately needed!

[hmkon...@gmail.com]

Yes, PLEASE!  Just do this already!

On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:05:50 PM UTC-7, eternal_now wrote:

[Denver]

please implement

[Richard Simpson]

+1 This would be very helpful.

A semi decent work around for me. I don't mind the conversation view for the inbox, but I prefer the non conversation view for sent mail. If you open two different tabs one for inbox and one for sent mail and then change the settings for sent mail to conversation view off. It seems to remember that. Then you can close both tabs, and when you switch between inbox and sent the views are different. Might be a glitch, but that's working for me right now.

[Clayton Riehle]

Joining Group to hope and possibly stir an interest in a quick toggle rather a short trip in and out of settings.

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[John Gardner]

Maybe all it needs is one more vote.  Please do this!

+1

[Jeremy Burnett]

Agreed!

[Steven Breiner]

"Hey Google!" Turn on conversation view toggle...

[Kevin Bartlett]

Here's my vote.

[a a]

100% correct

[RM]

I'm with this. I keep on switching it through settings. Very annoying.

[RM]

Not holding my breath :) just trying to be the straw who breaks the camel's back. lol

On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 3:12:09 PM UTC-5, Goofy 235 wrote:

After FOUR yrs, 37 posts by 29 authors...I would not hold my breath, RM :-)

(copy/paste from a very old posting)

Has been requested by hundreds of Gmail users since 2008! 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 :-)

[Goofy 235]

There are about 113,000 active requests in this Forum alone, RM...

It will take some pretty big straws to break this camel's back!

But don't quit trying :-)

[Evans Turner]

I need a quick toggle. I normally LOVE conversation view and Gmail's implementation is the best there is, but there are some specific cases where I need to quickly toggle it off or on.

For example, I get automated reports for my employer's HFC network when there is noise affecting a particular node. I have these alert messages automatically labeled and filtered by node. The subject line contains the node and the current signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). When there is noise or interference in a node, I get multiple updates with a graph image showing the SNR. I need to forward/backward through those messages and see the graph as it changes over time, but I find that often messages get grouped together because the subject line happened to be identical (with the same SNR level). In addition to breaking the chronology as I step through, Gmail hides the graph image in all threaded messages except the first one as if it was duplicate content, but each image is actually slightly different from the previous one and I need to see them. It's tedious to expand every "[...]" and it's tedious to toggle conversation view off and on every time I need to analyze these.

An excellent solution would be: A Gmail "lab" option that adds a "toggle conversation view" button to the top of the page. It would simply toggle the same option that already exists in Settings.

It sounds like there's not much hope that Google will see the demand and provide the option, but I just wanted to add my voice to this.

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM UTC-4, eternal_now wrote:

[Goofy 235]

An excellent idea and a great try, Evans Turner!

BUT:
After FOUR yrs, 36 posts by 29 authors...I would not hold my breath:-)

[Patty Myers]

So who can do something about this?  Is it only google employees who can work on a lab, or can one of the users who is tech savvy and can write code (not me) work on the problem?

[Goofy 235]

I wonder if eternal_now, still listens to this discussion...he/she started it "On Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM UTC-4"...Like FOUR yrs ago...

As to who can create a lab...I knew one guy who did it (Event Flairs) and he had to jump thru some hoops and he never told me if he made any money out of it...maybe some peanuts?

Google it, Patty Myers...if you or anyone else wants real answers!

Like copy/paste "how to write a Lab for Gmail"

Come back and tell us how to do it...

[paul....@tweed.com]

+1

[Goofy 235]

After 600 views and 38 posts by 31 authors...we sure need another +1...'unknown'

(Since April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM or more than 4 yrs ago :-)

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[Jose Manuel Ureña]

Will love this feature of a button that would toggle the conversation 

[Kevin Walsh]

Me too!  Would be nice

[Goofy 235]

For Kevin Walsh:

I wonder if eternal_now, still listens to this discussion...

He/she started it "On Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM UTC-4"...Like more than FOUR yrs ago...

After 626 views...42 posts by 33 authors:-)

[Jeremy Radwan]

+1 ... please add this feature! A quick keyboard shortcut would be perfect.

[Goofy 235]

For Jeremy Radwan - assuming he can read previous postings!

I wonder if eternal_now, still listens to this discussion...

He/she started it "On Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 1:05:50 AM UTC-4"...Like more than FOUR yrs ago...

After 659 views...43 posts by 34 (not too bright) authors:-)

(copy/paste from an old posting)

Has been requested by hundreds of Gmail users since 2008! 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 :-)

[Andrew Pollock]

It's not ideal but you can bookmark some JavaScript from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31639592/gmail-conversation-view-toggle-bookmarketlet-favelet-scriptlet

copy the code, bookmark their page, edit the url of the bookmark and replace with the script, now change the page title to conversation toggle or something similar

[Jerry1966]

Andrew, 

You're answering a question that is about FIVE yrs old by now...

Not to mention that most people in here are "allergic" to JavaScript :-)

(copy/paste from an old posting)

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

[Jason WD]

I came here for this exact same reason. In the OS X Mail app there is a button; maybe there is a technical reason it can't happen?

[Jerry1966]

The technical reason is because Google so decided!

And that's all there is for this 5 year old question!

[David Jaeger]

I would also like this feature. 

[Jerry1966]

Thank you David Jaeger...we really needed your +...

I betcha you never noticed that this conversation started "On Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 10:05:50" - FIVE yrs ago - and after 49 posts by 39 authors...YOU ARE STILL HOPING!!!

(copy/paste from an old posting)

It has been asked by thousands of Gmail users, since 2008 - the year this forum was established.

Ignored by Google;-(