Tuesday, October 2, 2007

GMail - Save searches to the Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar

While waiting for the latest update to Gmail that is currently being tested, gmail users continue to improve on Gmail using Firefox with GreaseMonkey. News of a recent innovation comes from Lifehacker's Search Gmail with a Custom Bookmarklet.:

If you search Gmail often by set criteria, you can create a bookmarklet to load up those search results with the click of a toolbar using a generator at the Eclectic Mayhem web site. Of course, there's always the Saved Searches user script (also built into Better Gmail), but loading your list of saved searches every time can bog Gmail down. Using this form, customize your search and generate a bookmarklet to hop to your results in a click. Remember, you can also use Firefox quick searches to access Gmail as well.
I've tried it out and it works well, I label emails that I see as of limited value after a period of time as ForSale or Notes and then, periodically (monthly), I use one of my save search to select these time limited emails so that I can delete them. I do like the idea of moving these saved searches from being on Reader actual interface to Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar, its cleaner and less cluttered, and you can always turn off the Toolbar until you need it.

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