Productivity & Technology 01 Jan 2007 01:50 pm
Gmail is *not quite* perfect (yet)
Despite what TechCrunch says, Gmail is not perfect.* It's missing two more key pieces of functionality that I (and many others) would likely use. They are:
- Sort mail by attachment size
- Delete attachments (but not the entire email message)
I'd like to be able to sort by attachment size, so I can delete attachments which are large, and/or I've already downloaded to my computer, which is the second bullet on my list. I just sent out an attachment that didn't work as expected, and I wanted to delete the attachment from my email, and leave only the working version. Can't do that the way that Gmail is currently set up — I can delete the whole message, but I don't want to do that.
Maybe they'll add this functionality later on. I surely hope so. I'm not running out of space, I just don't like keeping superfluous junk in my email — I like to pare everything down to the bare essentials, and broken email attachments aren't essential.
* This of course, is ignoring the fact that some 60 Gmail users lost almost all of their email in recent weeks. Oopsie.
