New Gmail Feature Lets You Turn Off Conversation View

Halleluia! I think. Although my primary e-mail address is a Google one, I continue to use Outlook and POP3 to access my e-mail. However, when on someone else's computer, I am forced to use the Google webmail version, and I have always hated Google's Conversation View. This feature groups e-mails by subject and presents them to the user in that way. It makes it very difficult to find and isolate a single e-mail one might be looking for. So now Google has introduced a new feature found in Settings that allows the user to turn off Conversation View. This is what I have always wanted, and I just did that. It remains to be seen if after all of this time of using their conversation grouping if I won't prefer that, but for now Conversation View is turned off.

This article by Ryan Whitman can be found at MaximumPC.

"When Gmail launched, it brought a new way of organizing emails that saved space and made many users quite happy. Of course we're referring to the Conversation View. Gmail groups all messages in a particular reply thread together under a single heading. While the majority of users have been happy with the system, a small, but vocal, minority have been looking for a way to disable it. Now Google is obliging with a new feature addition.

Users that want to ditch the Conversation view and go back to the traditional way of showing emails (i.e. each message gets its own entry), can do so. In the main Gmail settings page, There is a new section called "Conversation View". There is a simple toggle for turning this on and off. Some feel that it is easier to find specific emails without the Conversations enabled. If you fall into that camp, look for the option to roll out to your account in the next day or two.

While most users might be perfectly happy with the way Gmail works, we want to know what you think. Will you leave Conversations on, or turn it off?

Image via Google"