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Add option to 'mark as read' when marking an email or bundle as 'done'

Open tswitkowski opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

This does not replicate what Inbox did, but replicates what I do in gmail. The benefit is that the labels don't show in the label list, if you configure the label to to only show when there are unread mails.

tswitkowski avatar Jul 15 '20 15:07 tswitkowski

I can see how this might be useful, although it seems like a pretty specific use case / workflow. If there's more interest from other users in this, then I'll consider adding this option.

teresa-ou avatar Jul 16 '20 00:07 teresa-ou

I would use a 'mark as read' button or a 'mark as read and archive' button or both :) I may even pull the source and give a go at adding at least a 'mark as read' button to start.

jbharrell avatar Jul 16 '20 20:07 jbharrell

@teresa-ou I would rework the "double-checkmark" button to just select all mails in the bundle. Then the user can call any action on the selected mails. Alternatively add a keyboard shortcut to select all mails in the current bundle

durandom avatar Aug 05 '20 11:08 durandom

I agree. Being able to select mails in a bundle would be nice because, depending on the bundle, I won't process mails the same way (I will delete some bundles and archive others).

IMO the best would be to provide all four buttons (Select, Archive, Delete, View All) and to allow the user to toggle them on and off in the extension settings. Looking at the code, adding the two other buttons seems trivial; the hard part is managing user preferences.

Update: Implemented in #71.

71 avatar Aug 16 '20 13:08 71

There may be overlap in usecase with this feature request I filed: https://github.com/teresa-ou/inboxy/issues/94

In particular, the "readness" of my archived emails is something I would prefer to preserve and would rather be able to retool the gmail interface to account for the fact that "readness" isn't the primary thing I care about compared to "doneness" wherever it comes up (e.g. in the label list on the left)

eflynch avatar Jun 15 '21 15:06 eflynch