Comments on: Quickly mark prior messages as open

By: Become a more efficient BBGeek with IntelliBerry | BB Geeks

Become a more efficient BBGeek with IntelliBerry | BB Geeks — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:30:18 +0000

[...] fewest number of clicks to perform a task and I’m a happy geek. I mean, who else thinks to eliminate one click when marking prior messages open? Who else fills a blog with BlackBerry quick tips? So when I see an app which can boost efficiency [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:33:36 +0000

Joe, I completely agree the annoyance that Gmail doesn’t have 2-way sync for email… While Yahoo mail does have flawless 2-way sync.

Anyway, this post is precisely how I’ve come to use my BlackBerry and Gmail, with one twist… Here’s what I do:

Several times a day I read through each message. If I determine I want to read a particular message later in Gmail (while still within the message) I click the Menu button and choose Mark as Unopened… and then press the N key (or 6 on SureType) to move directly into the next message.

After reviewing all the messages I head back to the Inbox. Typically there are a few left unread (on purpose). I then apply a filter to show only “All Unread Messages”, head to the top date header and delete these from “Handheld Only”, which will also leave them as Unread within Gmail.

Then I highlight the remaining Read emails and delete from “Mailbox and Handheld”.

Thus, this clears my Gmail Inbox of unwanted messages and leaves those I want to check later as Unread.

Hope that makes sense and maybe helps another user…

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:42:37 +0000

Too bad, this doesn’t appear to work in all versions. This option doesn’t exist on my 8830WE running 4.2.2