<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"With a new version of Gmail apparently in the works, it\u2019s time to take a look at where the software is today and features we\u2019d like to see added.  While Google has made a lot of enhancements to Gmail during its 3+ year \u201Cbeta,\u201D there are still many things that could make it even better.  Here are the top ten on my wish list:\n1. Turn On/Off the Threaded View\nThreads are really nice for some emails and really annoying for others.  For example, if there are multiple people involved in an email and you want to reply to someone individually, it would be much easier to have that conversation broken out as its own thread.\n2. Archive Function\nThere needs to be a way to save your emails to your hard drive.  Even if you\u2019re not paranoid about Google owning all of your data, with so much of our communication taking place over email there needs to be a way to back it up.\n3. Multiple Account Options\nI have a few different Gmail addresses, and currently the only way I can access them is to sign out of one account and into another.  This is especially annoying because it also signs me out of the other Google services I use regularly such as Google Reader and Google Analytics.  \n4. Make Attachments Quicker\nThere are currently way too many steps involved in adding an attachment.  Gmail needs the ability to select multiple files from your machine at the same time so you only have to use the \u201CBrowse\u201D function once, and not each time for every file you are sending.  \n\n5. Option to View Message from Inbox\nCurrently to view a message you need to go to a new screen.  While you can then open it in a new window and return to your Inbox, a better option would be the ability to expand an email to see its contents directly in the Inbox.  This way you could see new emails that are coming in while you are reading or composing another message.\n6. Sorting Options\nI realize Gmail\u2019s motto is \u201Csearch don\u2019t sort\u201D but sorting options would be useful for some things.  For example, being able to sort by file size would make it much easier to find attachments.  Usually I end up searching for an attachment by entering in the name of the person that sent it to me, which can result in hundreds of emails to browse through in the results.  Allowing me to sort by file size would make this much quicker.\n7. To-Do List\nConsidering email is the one program most everyone keeps open all day, integrating a simple to-do/task list would be handy.  While there are now web services like TaDa that offer online to-do lists, having mine within the Gmail interface would be easiest, and make me less likely to forget stuff!\n8. More Emails in Search Results\nCurrently when searching, Gmail only shows the 20 most recent emails in the results.  At a minimum, this should be expanded, and ideally, it should let the user select how many results they want to see per screen.\n\n9. More Emails in Inbox\nAlong the same lines, users can currently see up to 100 emails in their Inbox.  An option for more or an alternate view would be nice, as once an email falls off the first page of my Inbox, chances are I\u2019m going to forget about it. \n10. A \u201CNever Spam\u201D Option\nGmail needs an option to mark an email as \u201CNever Spam.\u201D  While Gmail has an excellent spam filter, I have noticed that if a certain number of emails from the same sender go unread, they end up getting moved to the spam box.  For example, I subscribe to a lot of daily email newsletters, many of which I only end up reading once a month.  Some of these seem to end up in spam, which they are not.\n\u2014\nHopefully some of these features find their way into the new Gmail, which has not yet been confirmed by Google.  What features would you most like to see added?  Share your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/gmail/>