Gmail now suggests recipients
The article looks at Gmail's recipient suggestion functionality which was first available as a Labs project, but has been integrated natively now.
It seems that Gmail is set to read your mind; it now suggests recipients to your emails! No, Mr. Brin and Page are not inside your head, the application simply monitors groups you frequently send emails to, and uses those information to suggest recipients that you may want to send the email to that you are currently composing.
If you frequently send emails, this is a handy feature which can make sure you don't leave anyone out.
You can enable this in the labs settings in your account, and once you do, you should see some suggestions come up. For me this didn't work perfectly because I actually rarely email groups, let alone more groups.
Gmail recipient suggestion
If you use email mostly for client-to-client work you probably won't find this too useful, but in an office-like work environment this could be really handy.
For myself I'd rather like a better contact management system instead, something better integrated with the compose screen, maybe once that can read your first line and decide on the recipient. You could tell Gmail that if you begin a letter with "Hi Daniel" you want to send an email to me. Based on names this could be automated to some extent too. Do you have any contact feature suggestions for Gmail you'd love to see?
Update: Gmail has integrated the feature natively into the email client so that it is not necessary anymore to activate it on the Labs configuration page first before it becomes available. Recipient suggestions are displayed now automatically when you write messages, especially if the messages are similar to emails that you have composed in the past.
You will notice that members that are not yet added to the to, cc or bcc field are suggested underneath it so that you can add them to the email with a click of the mouse.
Gmail lists suggestions as well when you start typing in the to, cc or bcc field on the site. Suggestions are displayed as soon as you type the first character in one of the fields. You can pick one of the suggested recipients directly using mouse or keyboard, or add more characters to narrow down the list of suggestions.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!