Nylas-mail: Feature Request: Filtering to show just Unread messages

[bukinoshita]

[slash686]

+1

[mamantoha]

:+1:

[gilbitron]

:+1:

[laughedelic]

+1

[jorosmtz]

+1
This wll be good. Maybe between «Inbox» and «Starred»,for quickly change of view.

Or clicking the Label that show the Unread's number (Next to the Label «Inbox), the Label «Inbox» can change to «Unread», and vice versa. If so, when no more "unread's message", the Label «Unread» change automatically to «Inbox».

[guyeiny]

+1

[royts]

+1

[mfiume]

+1

[harisaurus]

+1

[tabascoterrier]

+1 - having to scroll through my inbox looking for unread messages is a real pain

[jsvini]

+1

[dubbe]

+1

[askdesigners]

+1

[jcuenod]

+1
In terms of implementation, I would be happy with an advanced search option like "is:unread" (it would be easy to turn that into a shortcut of some kind).
It would be handy to be able to filter columns more generally though as well.

[alxyang]

+1

[Labutin]

:+1:
Show only labels with unread messages is a super useful feature!!!

[matteobelfiore]

+1

[jamesaspence]

+1

[raknerak]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[pamirwang]

Would love it if this was added as a feature!!

[arbitist]

+1

[michalkopanski]

+1

[jbpin]

+1 it seems obvious...

[koenpunt]

:+1:

[richpollen]

+1

[mjaverto]

+1 this would be great for the unified inbox too to see all of our unread unified inbox messages.

[tur-nr]

+1

[aamirtharaj-rpx]

:+1:

[eimarfandino]

+1

[arliber]

+1

[georgewritescode]

+1

[rafacapa]

+1

[FabioFleitas]

+1

[Westie1012]

+1

[thiruthink]

+1

[saqebakhter]

+1

[Wikunia]

Come on guys! It can't be that hard...

[koenpunt]

@Wikunia seriously? Why don't you build it yourself? :)

[Wikunia]

Sry @koenpunt It's sometimes hard to imagine that such a simple feature is requested for a long time and nobody really answers.

[edheltzel]

:+1:

[lshreyas]

+1

[lucasnota]

+1

[fmnoise]

+1

[Eugenevik]

+1

[benjaminb10]

+1
Nobody answers !

[diegobalado]

+1

[caiotarifa]

:+1:

[adriangrantdotorg]

+1

[zombxx]

Definitely need. I have 6 unread emails and they must be buried because I can't find them. :+1:

[caiotarifa]

@zombxx, I have 2 like that.

[patrickjscott]

One of my accounts also shows as having two emails unread, and I can't find them. For the same account if I search is:unread on gmail.com, there are no unread emails.

[koenpunt]

Until this is available as a feature, you can make the same search in N1 as you would do on gmail.com:

is:unread

[jstejada]

hey @patrickjscott , you are probably experiencing issue #759. We are working on a fix.

[joshhopkins]

Filter logic would be amazing. Would love to create, 'Unread' and 'Waiting on Reply' (replied+not-archived) filters and just keep emails that are Unread/Read/New in Inbox.

[elledienne]

👍

[TyagoNeres]

+1

[iamjaredwalters]

+1

[koenpunt]

Guys, stop +1'ing, you can leave a "reaction" to the issue. More on that here: https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments

[isaplan]

:+1:

[hanhha]

Yes, please support this. I'm sure that I marked all read in web app but N1 still shows 2 unread messages and I can not find out them.

[estebanprimost]

:+1:

[benjamindahl]

+1

[alphashuro]

lol since 26 Oct this feature is till being requested and +1d. I think we can consider this a much needed feature.

[eimarfandino]

i already removed the app. without this feature is a no go.

[tehranchi]

+1

[ksikka]

+1

[denseflux]

+1

[AdnanHodzic]

+1

If it could be implemented the way it's done on i.e: Gmail "label: unread". To show all unread email that would be great!

[koenpunt]

@AdnanHodzic see here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/200#issuecomment-195956688

[bengotow]

Hey folks! Sorry for the delay, I'm building this into the next release and want to make sure we're on the right track. There are a few different ways that other apps implement an "unread" view, so I wanted to poll the crowd.

We're planning to add an "Unread" item to the left sidebar, beneath Inbox. In the future, we may add an unread filter to all views, but it's tricky because a simple filter would cause emails to disappear from view as you read them, which most likely isn't desirable.

What should "Unread" show?

• 👍 All of your unread mail, across all folders and labels (except spam and trash)
• 👎 Just unread mail in the inbox

When I mark a message as read:

• 😕 It should disappear from view immediately
• 😄 It should remain there until I leave the "unread" view, and N1 should give me a way to "refresh" the view.

When I view a message in the "unread" view:

• ❤️ It should mark it as read following my normal settings.
• 🎉 It should not mark it as read automatically.

Please use the new "Reactions" feature to vote on this comment (don't want to spam everyone subscribed to this thread!) Also keep in mind that we try to incorporate everyone's feedback into N1, but the final behavior may not be just right for everyone. Plugins and pull requests are always welcome!

[joshhopkins]

Ideally flags for all these options in preferences :)

[koenpunt]

@joshhopkins I agree on that, otherwise people's preferences will still be left out

[adriangrantdotorg]

I agree with @joshhopkins please have these be preferences a user can adjust :)

[alphashuro]

Agreed preferences work best.

[michalkopanski]

I'm surprised most are voting option 2 for "What should "Unread" show?". While "put it in the preferences" is a common response for everything, there still has to be a sensible default, and "put it in the preferences" is ignoring the issue altogether.

For what it's worth, Gmail and a few others that support this view show all of your unread mail, across all folders and labels. If you'd like to see Unread emails only in your inbox, you should be able to click on Inbox, and filter by Unread, the same way you would filter using the search: is:unread label:inbox.

PS: Gmail doesn't let the user decide what is:unread does, but what does Google know, right?

[cjmosure]

+1

[bengotow]

Hey folks! Thanks for all the feedback and ideas. We really appreciate it. We've shipped an "Unread messages" view in 0.4.32 with the most popular behaviors from the survey above. We'll definitely consider adding options for other behaviors in the future, especially for "What should unread show" (now Issue https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/2110), since opinions were most divided about that. I also love the idea of implementing all of this via search and just letting users create "smart folders" in the sidebar to save queries.

Options are always a bit of a tradeoff because they increase the surface area of code that needs to be tested, and if you're not careful, you end up with something like this: DragThing's preferences panel - the result of an incredibly dedicated team doing everything users ask for almost a decade. (Impressive, but also a bit of a disaster!)

Cheers—feel free to open new tickets if you run into anything in the update,