Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First
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I do oldest first in Thunderbird, I like it that way. Since I worked in commerce for a decade, it's always first-come, first-serve. I like to take care of emails from oldest to newest. So the "top" of my list is the old stuff and I work down, and try to keep inbox 0 at least in my main inbox.
For folder which are more like email archives for dumping stuff in, I might switch to newest first since I'm not actively reading through those folders.And, I kind of like conversation view. I use it in Zoho and it's great because I deal with so many clients, I often need to see the previous one or two emails in the chain to remember what's going on.
One thing I've always wished for with email is the ability to edit the headers and content. If there was a way to have my client allow me to change or append the subject line or add some meta-data somewhere to help find this email later, that would be fantastic. And I know some clients let you have tags, but I want a standard, something that permanently gets fixed to the email so any given client could read the extra data.
There was a plugin for Thunderbird that allowed me to edit subject lines, but email needs a standard for adding metadata to emails for archival purposes or just to help with searching and categorizing. -
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
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@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
know exactly what I am looking for.
That's totally fine, I can search on Tickets and Slack better than Outlook.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.
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@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
This might not be a ton of emails, but I search all the time and it's always instant in Outlook.
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@bnrstnr instant, yes. Outlook is physically fast. It's "difficulty in finding what you need" that's the issue, I think. I know that it is for me. And that's not Outlook's fault in any way, just a general problem with using search alone to find something in a sea of text.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.
No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.
No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.
You just need to tell your people to send you better emails for searchability.
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@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.
No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.
Perhaps. I can only speak to my experiences. I know the bigger the index, the slower it will be. I remember a shared mailbox with a few hundred K emails was Hella slow in every way. But I get that.
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
It's no bias, I use search every day, a lot. And the rate of finding things is very low. It's just a VERY cumbersome process.
You just need to tell your people to send you better emails for searchability.
I'll get right on that. "Please include a UUID in all future emails."
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@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.
After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.
Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...
Most everything was and is done via tickets and slack.
Email stuff is always so specific I know exactly what I am looking for.
You are lucky and unusual that email contains so little "noise". If your email gets busy, there is often no word or phrase that you can search on that brings up anything but a massive list of things.
No, it was very busy in Outlook, many thousands of emails in the inbox sometimes during busy times before I get a chance to archive.
It seems like some of you have a bias against something and purposely make it hard on yourselves.
I am not sure I have a bias, I use Outlook and while it has been up and down it works. That being said, I have heavy traffic and search does work but obviously it doesn't behave well with higher amount of emails.
Perhaps. I can only speak to my experiences. I know the bigger the index, the slower it will be. I remember a shared mailbox with a few hundred K emails was Hella slow in every way. But I get that.
I don't think it is the speed that is of issue. But the ability to search well in a large volume of emails. The bigger the volume, the more any search term is repeated.
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@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
ability to search well in a large volume of emails
Thunderbird does this very well. Its whats I used for my private email accounts.
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@360col said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
ability to search well in a large volume of emails
Thunderbird does this very well. Its whats I used for my private email accounts.
Me too. I don't use it day to day, but when I have a search problem, I fire it up.
