Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Gmail has seen a lot of changes since its inception, with innumerable features being added to what was essentially a mailbox. When you compose mails in Gmail from now on, a New Message box will open just like a chat window. So say you are looking at mails in your Inbox and you want to compose a mail, the Gmail will not open a separate compose mail page, instead, you will be able to see the contents of your inbox and write out your mail in the New Message box. You can even insert messages inline.
Just like in a chat window, you can
minimise the New Message box and continue writing the mail later. This
solves one of the critical issues that faced the older compose mail
page. In case you wanted to refer to some other mail while composing
your mail, you would have to Save the current mail as a Draft, go back
to Inbox and then re-open the Draft to compose the mail. With this move,
Gmail has made referencing older mails a piece of cake. You can even
use the search mail option while keeping the New Message box minimised.
In a move to integrate this new feature
with Google+, you can now even see your contact’s photo as you are
typing out the address. You can also drag and drop the new address chips
between to:, cc: and bcc:. When you’re done adding recipients, the
address area collapses automatically to get out of your way.
