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Google adds a pointless Gmail snooze button
IN A BEGUILING ACT of software development magic Google has revealed a Snooze button for its Gmail service.
The addition lets users delay when emails hit their inbox and has mystified us, but then we don't hover around waiting to devour every electronic missive that comes our way.
Googlers do though, apparently so perhaps this addition is more esoteric than eccentric. "Because of the volume of email we all deal with, a lot of Googlers subscribe to the 'inbox zero' philosophy where we try to keep our inboxes empty except for the messages we currently need to deal with," explained software engineer Corey Goldfeder in a blog post.
"One feature that some of us really wanted was for Gmail to let you 'snooze' an email. Snoozing means archiving an email for now, but having it automatically reappear in the inbox at some specified time in the future. With Apps Script you can extend Gmail to add this functionality and a lot more yourself."
We are not rushing to adopt it, in fact we've set any snooze update plans to snooze themselves, but others might get some mysterious satisfaction out of it.
Snooze triggers can be set to your own specifications, meaning that you can choose what triggers one, or, perhaps more sensibly, time restrictions for when you do not want to get any email, such as in our case, between the hours of 9am and 5pm. µ
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I was regularly using a snooze system using a third party extension which I was paying for, now I can have it for free! How is that pointless??? I have a lot of emails during the day that I can't deal with at the moment because I am busy with other things, but I don't want them getting buried in my inbox of hundreds of emails per day. It's an excellent feature which brings the email back to my attention after a certain amount of time when I can deal with it.
Obviously it's not for everyone but certainly not pointless for a good many.
to bad they don't do something usefull like adding a SORT (by header, name, ect) feature.
My work is usually email driven. It would be nice to be able to completely forget about the low priority things for an hour or two instead of them sitting there taunting me...
Snoozing is not the news here! The Google Apps Scripts API is.
This is more like a introduction for the Google Apps Scripts API, http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/guide.html ... Before this, I had never heard of such thing.
"Google Apps Script gives users a new level of control over Google products. Now you can access and control Google Spreadsheets and other products using JavaScript scripts that you write yourself and can share with others. Unlike browser-based JavaScript, the scripts you write run directly on Google servers in order to provide direct access to the products they control."
It sounds great for us who know how to handle it. Though clueless users might go install / use scripts that are in fact viruses. For instance sends all the emails to someone else.