Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

Gmail - Get more than just conversation view

Google has probably made one of the toughest decision regarding Gmail by offering an option to disable conversations view.

Conversations was one of the innovations of Gmail and it changed the way a lot of us deal with emails on a daily basis.

However, there are still users out there who prefer it the old way. Just like we have it on Yahoo and Hotmail and in most desktop clients.

They took a long time to accept the demands and they have finally given in.

Gmail now allows you to disable the conversations mode. You can have emails in your Gmail Inbox in the old style.

The company stated in a blog posting:

Conversation view is perhaps Gmail’s most hotly debated feature. Threading enthusiasts say they spend less mental energy drawing connections between related messages and that their inboxes are much less cluttered. On the other hand, email traditionalists like many former Outlook users think conversation view just complicates something that has worked for years.