BlackBerry Feature Request: Select All
So I run a couple blogs, one of which last night received over 400 spam comments. I get work email which isn't too bad, but sometimes can be overwhelming when a system goes down and sends an alert every two minutes resulting in hundreds of emails. And of this week, I'm getting my personal email on my Blackberry through Gmail, which is very helpful, but has resulted in probably 300 to 500 emails per day. The BlackBerry is probably the only decent email device out there so it handles the load no problem, but it's missing one feature I'd like to see: select all. CTRL-A. Isn't it wonderful to be able to do a search in Outlook or Gmail and then click 'select all' or CTRL-A and either mark them all as read or delete them? If you get 300 emails from a system that went down overnight you don't care about each one, you just want to delete all of them so you can see if there is anything else interesting in your inbox. Right now what I have to do is use the ALT button and the scroll wheel in combination, which leads to alot of scrolling, deleting, waiting, scrolling, deleting...etc. Is it too much to ask to add a SELECT ALL to the option menu?
Oh and one more... I mentioned that there are some handy keyboard shortcuts you can use to get around the BlackBerry email client. I've used the 'U' shortcut a couple times, which returns you to the last unread message. I'd love to have a variation on that one that filters all the the emails *except* those that are unread... If that can't happen, how about enabling me to perform a search by 'status' (read or unread) in the email search utility?
And by the way, if you happen to work at RIM, thanks for reading!
November 20, 2004 in Platform by ajohnson
Comments
You can do "Delete Prior"...!
Posted by: supergugler on November 23, 2004 11:48 AM