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<p dir="auto" style="margin: 1.12em 0;">The conversation threads drive me crazy - first, I hate clicking to open the thread to get to the most recent, but mostly I just want the newest emails to be on top. I have a lot of filters set up to route things into folders (mostly by senders or groups of senders), so I can find my conversations that way, I guess.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks for the tip re: clicking on header lines. I think that might come in handy.</p>
<p dir="auto">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 <a href="https://tyler.io/2020/04/additional-mailmate-tips/" style="color: #3983C4;">this review</a> in which he says MM broke him of his habit of looking in threaded views. :-)</p>
<p dir="auto">On 15 Jan 2024, at 12:22, John Doherty wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">I think this is mostly a "different strokes" kind of thing.</p>
<p dir="auto">On Mon 2024-01-15 12:25 PM MST -0700, <devynosborne@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">(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.)</p>
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You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians<br>
They all seemed like game show hosts to me.</p>
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