Ryan’s Journey

I was just going through one of my Gmail accounts to check the posts on the various mailing lists I am on, and I found a new shortcut that I have not heard talked about at all. It is ‘m’, this is quite an useful and the way that Gmail’s help words it, it makes it quite funny:

If you’re subscribed to a mailing list, you’ve no doubt been subjected to the ‘thread that just won’t die!’ If you’re part of a long message conversation that isn’t relevant, you can ‘mute’ the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox.

By using the ‘m’ shortcut key, new messages added to the conversation bypass your inbox so that the conversation stays archived. If your address appears in the to or cc field, though, the conversation will pop back into your inbox ready for your attention.

If you need to see what you have muted, just type is:muted in the search bar and you will be given a list of your “muted” conversations. To un-mute it, select it, and click the move to inbox button.

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