[MlMt] Threads and Sent Messages

devynosborne at gmail.com devynosborne at gmail.com
Mon Jan 15 15:34:38 EST 2024


Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

I think, for me, that could work as long as I knew what I was looking 
for. Often, though, I’m revisiting an old conversation to see where we 
left off, who’s court the ball is in, or how much I need to pester 
someone.  ;-)  A lot of what I do is staying on top of other people 
and/or following up, and seeing the whole view of a conversation is very 
helpful.

Thanks for the tip re: clicking on header lines. I think that might come 
in handy.

And thanks again for sharing how you work; it helps inform my use 
(especially as long as I’m shifting email clients). I even read [this 
review](https://tyler.io/2020/04/additional-mailmate-tips/) in which he 
says MM broke him of his habit of looking in threaded views.  :-)



On 15 Jan 2024, at 12:22, John Doherty wrote:

> Well, I'm someone who doesn't care about "conversation view," so I 
> guess I can try to explain why not. I do know other people who care 
> about it a lot.
>
> I do frequently refer to old (sometimes very old) email messages for 
> all sorts of reasons. I just search. MailMate has what I think are 
> really great search features and I can usually find what I'm looking 
> for pretty fast and easily.
>
> Usually all I need is the search box in the upper right of the viewer 
> window. Sometimes I need to further filter with additional search 
> criteria. Sometimes I make a new smart mailbox if I think I'll want to 
> refer to the messages again in a few hours or days.
>
> I also use the MailMate feature of clicking on "From:", "Subject:", 
> "To:" lines in the message header pane a lot to find other similar 
> messages.
>
> That's it, I just search. It works really well for me. I don't care 
> about threads or conversation view. I don't even usually have 
> "Organize by Thread" turned on.
>
> I think this is mostly a "different strokes" kind of thing.
>
> On Mon 2024-01-15 12:25 PM MST -0700, <devynosborne at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (And, I’m still curious about how people use email *without* 
>> comprehensive views by thread. Though, after years of viewing emails 
>> in the context of their conversations, I find it hard to imagine not 
>> doing so.)
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