Ok, though just archiving emails as you read them would work just as well. And you wouldn't have to perform any search. New conversation arrives in inbox, you read it and archive it. If another email arrives for that same archived conversation, it automatically gets moved back to the inbox. So you then read the new email and archive it again.
I think mute is just for conversations that you don't even want to deal with anymore, which doesn't seem to apply to your needs in this case. Regards, Kenneth On Jul 30, 2015 9:53 AM, "APB" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Kenneth and Andy. I'm glad to understand better about labels. > This will no doubt help me in searching in the future. > > As for my immediate issue, I found that the best solution for me was to > Mute the new conversations as I read them. (I had originally said that I > wanted to see *all* new messages in the Inbox, but I changed my mind.) > > Now, the new conversations come to the Inbox, and the old conversations > with new messages are findable via a search for "is:muted is:unread". (And > I made a Quick Link for that search, of course.) > > (Just to provide context: What I'm dealing with are question + > multiple-answer posts on Facebook, for which I get notifications by email. > It has proved to be more efficient for me to go from the initial post > notification by email, to Facebook to set the post for further > notifications, and back to email to read the rest of the thread, than to do > everything on Facebook. Not necessarily the solution for everyone, but it > works for me.) > > --APB > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:02 PM, APB <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to figure out how to isolate conversations which have only 1 >>> message in them. >>> >> >> I think there is no automatic way to do THAT. FYI. >> >> All the conversations in question are assigned a label by a filter. >>> (Let's call the label "ABC".) >>> >>> As I read the new conversations, I manually assign an additional label >>> to them. (Let's call it "XYZ".) >>> >>> It seems to me that if I search for "label:ABC -{label:XYZ}", I should >>> see only the ABC conversations which do not have the XYZ label, but it's >>> not working. >>> >>> It appears that when a new message arrives in one of the conversations >>> I've labeled XYZ, it sort of overrides the XYZ label, so that my search >>> does not exclude the conversation. >>> >> >> That's because the new message doesn't have the XYZ label yet, so it >> matches your search. >> >> This is the way messages and conversations work. Labels are attached to >> messages, not to conversations. When you do a search, it searches for >> messages that meet your search criteria. If you have conversation view >> enabled, it delivers the results to you in conversations. Other messages >> that are in the same conversation with ones that match your search, will >> "go along for the ride". >> >> You can disable this by turning conversation view OFF. Then you will no >> longer see those messages that have the XYZ label already. >> >> But labels are applied to whole conversations, not just individual >>> messages, are they not? >>> >> >> They are not. They are applied to messages. >> >> When you manually add them, they might attach to every message in the >> displayed conversation; but just the same, all labels are attached to >> messages. >> >> 1. Removing a label is more work than adding one; >>> >> >> That's odd that you say that, because I find it's exactly the opposite. >> >> Removing a label is as easy as clicking on the "x" next to the label's >> name, at the top of the message. >> >> If you do the drop-down menu method, again it is easier to remove one >> than adding one because the label you want to remove is right there at the >> top of the list, and you don't need to scroll down to find the new label >> you want to add, or type it in manually. >> >> Regards, >> Andy >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
