As Easy as Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down Arrow
| Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 | --Sean |
We've mentioned the lack of threading in Yahoo! Mail Beta before. This is, sadly, not the post where we triumphantly declare that we've implemented real message threading in a fluid, fool-proof manner, but we do have another hacky work-around for you to play with. :D
Basically, if you have a message highlighted in your message list, you can press Ctrl-Shift-Up Arrow or Ctrl-Shift-Down Arrow to skip to the next or previous message in the thread (instead of just going to the next or previous message). This is a feature of Darren's Extended Navigation Hack --- mentioned in this post on the Yahoo! Mail blog --- which by default skips you around your inbox based on message subject, but can also be configured to look for flag status or particular email addresses.
And, no, I have no idea why you have to manually input the email address in the configuration dialog box instead of having an option to find emails based on the sender of the currently highlighted email. Just in case you were wondering. I was...
December 20th, 2006 at 12:17 am
Well…Darren’s in building A. Why don’t you stop by and help him out? ;)
December 20th, 2006 at 3:22 am
:D You mean that this blog isn’t an open forum for me to complain without consequence about the features that don’t make sense to me on things that are otherwise really cool? I’ll send Darren an email when I have some spare cycles.