Add Folder and Label settings
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Fine grained control over which content is displayed in
Unread
and other folders is always welcome.The most obvious use case is probably to hide feeds from the general
Unread
view.This would also e.g. provide the possibility to hide unread mails from certain views (e.g.
Unread
) if there are labelled correctly. Such is especially helpful using one mail account together with others or on different devices and the task can only be done from one of them.
Marking mails as read usually makes people forget about them, flagging them as urgent if they are not urgent for you can also clutter, and moving them just to other folders does not solve the issue of having unread mails. So I think, that this is actually a very nice combination of features that would be very welcome to M3.
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I second this request.
For me it's crucial, that "Unread" (and other virtual folders gathering emails from multiple accounts) shows only unread emails from INBOX and not from other folders. Otherwise it's an incoherent mix as I have different filtering rules on servers of each account.
Crazy idea:
Maybe allow the user to add her own "virtual folders" consisting solely of user-selected folders (e.g. "INBOX" and "GitHub") from multiple accounts. At the same time allow removal/hiding of the default "virtual folders" (including "Unread") to not drain resources (bandwidth, storage, cache, computation, UI space, you name it).
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Hiding mails that are filtered/labeled somewhere allowed emulating functionality of folders in M2. This is key to make people feel comfortable switching over. But it also adds some complexity, it was a bit cumbersome in M2 - you could tell a filter to hide messages from other views and then tell other views to show hidden messages. Kind of overriding the override. If sth didn't show right, you'd go on a hunt for which checkbox was set where.
Every filter, flag, label ... gives a message the corresponding property. A toggle for filtered, flagged, & labeled in the search field (like already available for trash, spam and mailing lists) might do the trick.
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fully support this
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@WildEnte said in Add Folder and Label settings:
Hiding mails that are filtered/labeled somewhere allowed emulating functionality of folders in M2. This is key to make people feel comfortable switching over.
For me, this was a key feature of Opera Mail.
I'd absolutely love to see it again in Vivaldi! -
This would be a welcomed addition. I've just installed Vivaldi and played with it a bit and I like it a lot, but now I have 3600+ unread emails in my "inbox folder" because I can not "hide" all the labeled stuff...
Please add this feature soon. -
+1
Cette fonctionnalité fait grandement défaut à Vivaldi au regard de ce que l'on pouvait faire avec elle dans Opera 12.18. J'attends avec une TRES GRAND IMPATIENCE son ajout.
Merci de faire vite -
@jumpsq said in Add Folder and Label settings:
e.g. provide the possibility to hide unread mails from certain views
As I said in an earlier comment, the ability to hide filtered emails elsewhere is essentially emulating folders. Opera M2's way of hiding mails there and then allowing to override that yet again with the "show hidden" was confusing.
There may be a more elegant way in Vivaldi mail, because Vivaldi knows one property Opera M2 didn't: custom (IMAP) folders. So instead of adding totally new property "hidden" that again needs an override toggle, how about just reusing the already existing "show custom folders" functionality?
I imagine it would work like this: right-click a filter or label or flag and add a selectable menu item 'treat as folder'.
Effect: that filter/flag/label now also appears in the custom folders section, and emails in that filter/flag/label start reacting to the show "custom folders" toggle
(AND, if they would ever implement this, filter/flag/labels toggles)Simple enough?
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@WildEnte No idea how this is any less complicated and I actually think that M2 settings were just quite nice and most users just don't need to bother because they were well hidden, but maybe I did just wrap my head around this the wrong way.
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@jumpsq I think it's less complicated because M2's "hidden" setting with the override "show hidden" elsewhere was meant to emulate folders.
So why not just call it a folder and make use of the existing folder category in the panel and in the show/hide toggles...
I was actually quite proud of this idea and thought you'd agree and be so happy that you'd jump in a square