Enjoying the Classics
| Friday, December 1st, 2006 | --Sean |
We're all about new and shiny here at Yahoo!, but sometimes you just want to curl up with the tried and true classics. Especially when we keep adding neat features to the classics and don't also put them in the new and shiny. Here are two fun things that you can try in Classic Mail that haven't yet made their Beta debut:
Yahoo! Mail Shortcuts: An attractive, interested female sends you her phone number and you need to save it before you wake up from what obviously is a dream. You want to get right into forwarding your resume to this email address that your friend suggested. You have extensive plans to get out and explore new places today, but copying/pasting the addresses into a new window just takes too much effort. Baby, Classic Yahoo! Mail has got you covered. Just sit back, click on the entities that we've recognized and underlined --- things of interest, places, email addresses, URLs, and phone numbers --- and enjoy the relevant options that we present. The Maps one is especially fun. (thanks to Google Operating System for the heads-up)
Refine Results: Yahoo! employees are the height of culture and refinement, so it stands to reason that we'd lend similar traits to our Mail Search Results. With the Cultured Results featur...wait, no. With the Refine Results feature, your search results are automatically categorized by things like who sent the email, which folder it's in, when it was sent, and all that good stuff, so you can narrow down your search without needing to come up with better search terms on your own. A search for "love" quickly reduces to emails from a particular person ... last year ... around February ... and now you've found the heartwarming note that your girlfriend sent you last Valentine's Day. Sweet. (heh, thanks to Google Operating System for this one, too)
Or you can just search for Fantasy Sports like me.
So, these are pretty awesome features. Hopefully they'll make their way into the Yahoo! Mail Beta soon so we can do away with all this darn nostalgia.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Heh, well the search shortcuts do work with the new mail version as well as the classic version. I also believe that the automatic address lookup feature should be available for both versions as well.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:17 pm
:D Right, I know that *search* shortcuts — things like from:email@ddress or attachmentcount:>0 in the search box; see here — work in the new Mail. However, I can only get the inline mail shortcuts, as described above, to work in the classic version of Mail. Really. I tried. :P