Fundu Gmail Labs feature: ‘UNDO SENT’

March 20th, 2009 by Annkur

Clicked the sent button too early? Ended up sending embarrassing replies to the wrong person? Forgot to attach that attachment? Well worry not; here comes the UNDO button for sent mails.

UNDO = cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; “I wish I could undo my actions”

Personally this has happened to me many times; the threaded emails in Gmail can end up confusing you when you are discussing the same thing with multiple people (say a client and a partner). And just as you click that send button you realise that the mail has been shot to the wrong person.

However this new Labs feature allows you to UNDO a sent mail. Hitting the UnDo button will push you back into the compose mail mode. The feature works by holding all your sent mails by 5 seconds after you click the send button (this happens in background; so you wont be distracted); allowing you to UnDo your actions.

The labs option is seen in your gmail settings (yes Google Apps has this aswell) or If you already have some other labs feature enabled you will also see a labs icon on the top-right side.

I wish I had something like this for SMS as well! And did I mention IM?

Note: The undo feature at the moment gives you 5 seconds. A 10 second version is coming aswell.

Via the Gmail Blog / Wired

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Categories: Tips n Tricks | Tags: gmail, gmail labs, labs