Less Threadless
| Thursday, January 31st, 2008 | --Sean |
I love threading in email -- it's one of the primary reasons that I use Gmail for my main personal account (as well as lock-in from before I started working at Yahoo!, as well as...er, competitive analysis?). So it's always encouraging to see new, tentative baby steps towards more robust support for threading in the New Yahoo! Mail, even if we're not quite there yet. The most recent addition is the ability to navigate through a "thread" of messages (more explicitly, messages with very similar titles) using handy arrow buttons located in the upper left of your preview pane.
If you're paying close attention, you'll notice that this is an extension of the Extended Navigation system, just made significantly less arcane. You can achieve the same results as clicking on the left/right arrows by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Down/Up.