Awesome Gmail Trick To View Contact Conversations

by Abhijeet on June 12, 2008

in Gmail

If you want to view all the conversations, whether emails or chat messages, with a particular gmail contact then what do you do ? Well, there are few ways. Like you can use gmail search operators or you can also use a greasemonkey script for that purpose.

However, Gmail itself provides you a quick way to do that, which you may not have discovered yet. Just look at the chat box on the left in your gmail, which has your status and shows the contacts who are available online.

There is a small box below your name where you can type to find a contact. As you start typing the name, it lists the matched results. Then just hover your mouse over the required contact. What do you see ? On the right it gives you some options which includes ” View recent conversations “. Click on it and there you are. You get the entire history of emails and chats with that particular contact.

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You can also view all conversations with a contact by pointing the mouse on his name in the chat window and then clicking on More in his profile window which pops up. However, this is feasible only if the contact is online, otherwise you’ll have to scroll down through the list to find him and then check it.

I hope you enjoyed this trick. If you want to share any such tips, please do in the comments. I’d love to know more such tricks.

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{ 9 comments }

Madhur Kapoor June 12, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Nice tip Abhijeet. Earlier i used the search functionality .

Shilpan | successsoul.com June 13, 2008 at 7:00 am

Abhi,

Great tip. It will be very handy to view mails from a given contact.

Shilpan

ajay June 13, 2008 at 11:27 am

hi jeet
i read your comment on problogger. and i think your are going at a very good rate. you have a very good blog and your posts also comes digg’s front page it’s real good going

Aibek June 13, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Thanks for the tip. This Gmail goodness never ends. :-)

Abhijeet June 13, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Thanks everyone for the comments. Aibek, thanks for stopping by :)

@ajay- My posts don’t hit digg’s front page. It was only one post in April, which appeared on Digg.

Ahmad Alfy June 13, 2008 at 6:09 pm

I’ve discovered this recently … GMail just keep rocking!

Komedi August 26, 2008 at 6:23 am

Thanks..

veryy good..

Mummy November 7, 2008 at 2:41 am

Hi
Smart advice. Recently my gmail chat list deleted accidently. Now I have problem with contacts who were previously part of the list due to the fruquent emailing. Now they do not appear again (no ball next to their name) and we email frequently still. Is it possible to be added to the list wihtou invatation?

Herbert Kaufman January 10, 2009 at 12:01 am

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good luck

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