While using the new "find related mail" feature I found that it can be improved by removing some kyboard steps after dealing with a search. Here is my workflow example:
- after going to the next unread mail (an order notification) I click on find related to find mails with the same name in subject line
- I then have to select the most recent previous mail (this would be a nice step to automate but not to be discussed here)
- I then flag the email as renewed (at the moment by using the appropriate flag label in the mail header toolbar, provided by the tag toolbar Add-on
- Then I need to clear the search and go to the next unread mail. Currently I use the keyboard combo [ESC] followed by [N]
I would like to replace the last option by simply clicking the "Next unread mail" button in the Navigation bar (current folder bar), or also (ideally) by pushing [N]. This removes the effort of having to type [ESC] as well (which sometimes may also unintendedly hide the search field).
The current behavior is that [N]ext unread mail operates on the filtered result set and will usually result in Thunderbird jumping to the next folder with unread mail, which is disruptive. I want to simply keep doing my operations, do the next unread mail and search for related mails. Ideally Thunderbird would have this as an optional behavior but I think this isn't possible at the current point in time.
While using the new "find related mail" feature I found that it can be improved by removing some kyboard steps after dealing with a search. Here is my workflow example:
I would like to replace the last option by simply clicking the "Next unread mail" button in the Navigation bar (current folder bar), or also (ideally) by pushing [N]. This removes the effort of having to type [ESC] as well (which sometimes may also unintendedly hide the search field).
The current behavior is that [N]ext unread mail operates on the filtered result set and will usually result in Thunderbird jumping to the next folder with unread mail, which is disruptive. I want to simply keep doing my operations, do the next unread mail and search for related mails. Ideally Thunderbird would have this as an optional behavior but I think this isn't possible at the current point in time.