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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Canned Responses
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Canned Responses
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:45 PM Posted by Chad Parry, Gmail engineer Hello, you've reached Chad's mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I'm on paternity leave so I won't be able to respond personally. Instead, I hope you'll ...
Official Google Mobile Blog: Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0
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GMail gets auto-replies
Webware.com — ... ): Canned responses (see Official GMail blog). You can now save a reply you're writing as a "canned response" and then quickly select one of these responses when you're replying to a future e-mail. ...

Google implementa menu com respostas prontas no Gmail Labs
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — E mais um recurso super bacana chega ao Gmail Labs: Canned Responses — algo como respostas prontas, pré-determinadas pelo usuário, coisas rotineiras. Ou seja, se você costuma enviar emails bastante parecidos freqüentemente, a partir de agora você só precisará digitá-lo mais uma única vez. Seu único trabalho será o de apertar o botão para enviar a mensagem. (...) (...) Continue lendo Google implementa menu com respostas prontas no Gmail Labs (95 palavras) ...

GMail Labs is On a Roll: Canned Responses
Mashable! — While most web mail services have remained largely unchanged over the last ten years or so, Google has been updating GMail on a near constant basis, whether it’s updating the core of the product or releasing new upgrades via the Labs. Earlier this evening, they announced a new feature I can see myself using quite frequently called “canned responses.”   Just like it sounds, it’s the ability to offer pre-written responses for commonly written emails: If you’re sick of ...

Gmail Canned Responses: If I've Said it Once...
ReadWriteWeb — ... Now, it does. Enter Gmail Canned Responses, a new release from Google Labs that lets you save that response as a template. With Canned Responses, you can answer that annoying question with a few clicks of your mouse. And you can do some other interesting things, too. ...

Gmail Autoresponder
Google Operating System — ... "If you're sick of typing out the same reply every time someone emails you with a common question, now you can compose your reply once and save the message text with the "Canned responses" button. Later, you can open that same message and send it again and again," explains Chad Perry. ...

Just Have Your Gmail Contact My Gmail
TechCrunch — Google takes humans one more small step towards irrelevancy. They released a new feature in Google Labs this evening that lets users create “canned responses” to emails. So if you find yourself typing the same response over and over again to emails, you can just create a canned response and use it repeatedly. And they’ve also gone one step further…you can also set filters based on emails that contain certain keywords, or are from certain people, and automatically reply with a canned response. The result is a sort of smart ...

Gmail Canned Responses “Autoresponder”
D' Technology Weblog — ... Gmail Labs added a new feature called “Canned Responses” for automatic replies. If you’re sick of typing out the same reply every time someone emails you with a common question, now you can compose your reply once and save the message text with the “canned responses” button. Later, you can open that same message and send it again and again”. ...

Gmail Cans Email Replies
WebProNews Feed — ... With a New Labs Feature There is a new feature for Gmail, which will allow users to create a "canned response". This means you will be able to save a message that you are likely to send a number of times. Gmail engineer Chad Perry gives the example of being on paternity leave and leaving the following response "in the can": Hello, you've reached Chad's mailbox. Thanks for your email about the latest Labs feature: Canned Responses, or email for the truly lazy. I'm on paternity leave so I won't be able to respond personally. Instead, I hope you'll enjoy this automated message. ...

Streamline Your E-Mail Workflow With Gmail’s ‘Canned Responses’
Webmonkey — ... Gmail Labs has added a new “canned response” feature that allows you to create and save common e-mail responses for faster replies. Once you enable the new features, all you need to do is compose a message with the boilerplate text and then choose “save new canned response” in the canned responses menu. ...

Google Intros Canned Responses for Gmail
AppScout — ... You've got to hand it to the folks at Google--at least they're having fun. The team behind Gmail today introduced Canned Responses, or, as they've lovingly described it, "e-mail for the truly lazy." ...

Gmail’s Canned Responses is E-mail for the Lazy
Wired: Epicenter — The makers of Mail Goggles, the popular application for drunk people, have announced their next Labs innovation: automated e-mails. “Canned Responses” allows you to harness filters on incoming messages and create a stock pile of automated, cookie cutter responses.  And you don’t even have to click “Send,” as Gmail will do that for you as well. The new feature was designed based on feedback from users in Google’s forums. Canned Responses could be pretty useful for those clever ...

Gmail Offers Canned Responses for the Lazy Emailer in All of Us [Gmail]
Gizmodo — ... "enabled." Then you'll see a Canned Responses link under your subject link when you're writing an email. You can save text as different responses and then dump it into any message you're writing with the pull-down menu. I've already set up a few! You can also set up a filter to automatically respond to emails from certain people or with certain subjects with a canned response, which could come in handy. Here's to being lazy and less personal with our emails, am I right guys? [Gmail Blog] ...

Gmail “Canned Response” Says a Lot About Google
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Gmail Canned Response came into the world this week. The Labs option lets you set up custom automated replies for e-mails based on any filter — sender name, keyword in the body, etc. Here’s how Google explains it: ...

Will Gmail Leave Anything For Me To Do on My Own?
Profy — ... Today we have yet another functionality in this field introduced to Labs - Canned Responses. This feature will remember the common things you type in reply to some common questions you get - and will help you compose an answer next time you are asked the same question. With Canned Responses a user is offered to compose the email only once and use this email as a template for all the future emails like this. What’s more, Gmail can actually apply a certain canned response to all the messages sorted out by a certain filter you have - and once an email is recognized as meeting ...

Google’s mission — to organize the world’s problems and solve them
GMSV — ... with some new enterprise-class features, namely “Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export API (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multi-dimensional data visualizations called ‘Motion Charts,’ and an updated user and administrative interface.” * For those looking to ease the burden of personally answering all their e-mail, Gmail now features the ability to create canned responses that can be sent automatically in reply to incoming mail identified by user-defined filters. * For voters wondering where they’re supposed to cast ...

GMail Allows You To Automatically Send Generic E-Mail Responses
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Chad Perry, an engineer at GMail has created a new Labs feature called Canned Responses.  This feature is especially useful for those who are constantly sending generic responses to incoming e-mails.  Users can save and send common messages as well as automatically send e-mail responses using filters. ...

Google’s New Handy Gmail Tool: Canned Responses
PC World Latest Technology News — ... . This feature allows you to create a library of short e-mail responses that can be selected in just a few clicks when replying to an e-mail. This feature is handy for anyone who is sick of typing out the identical response to multiple people. I could see this as a handy feature for storing directions to your home or commonly used e-mail responses such as "Unsubscribe: Please remove me from your e-mailing list." You can take Canned Responses a step further, as Google points out , and and use the feature to personalize e-mail auto-replies with specific messages. For example, ...

Google’s New Handy Gmail Tool: Canned Responses
Today @ PC World — ... . This feature allows you to create a library of short e-mail responses that can be selected in just a few clicks when replying to an e-mail. This feature is handy for anyone who is sick of typing out the identical response to multiple people. I could see this as a handy feature for storing directions to your home or commonly used e-mail responses such as "Unsubscribe: Please remove me from your e-mailing list." You can take Canned Responses a step further, as Google points out , and and use the feature to personalize e-mail auto-replies with specific messages. For example, ...

Gmail adds two new semi-ridiculous features
Salon: Machinist — ... you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind? Indeed, Mail Goggles provides you with math problems (you can set the difficulty in advance) as a way to keep you from sending those weird e-mails that you didn't mean to send. But, Google wasn't done. Earlier this week, Gmail unveiled another new feature, called Canned Responses. Again, from the Gmail blog: If you're sick of ...

Gmail: Eight Articles With Useful How-Tos, Tips and Tricks
louisgray.com — ... for Firefox 3" "5 Gmail Labs Features Everyone Should Try" "Tip: Read Your Mail Without Touching Your Mouse" "Check if Your Gmail is Hacked with Activity Monitor" "Import Your Hotmail Messages into Gmail" "How to Make Your Gmail Contacts as Stand-alone" "Three Solid Gmail Productivity Tips" "Gmail Advanced IMAP Controls"And as most of you know, Gmail now has auto-reply, dubbed "canned responses." Do you have any tricks or tips I might have ...

Google Adds Features To Gmail
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — ... the experience faster and more reliable. We rearchitected the entire client to push all the processing to the background, greatly improve the client-side caching scheme and optimize every bottleneck piece of code we came across. So there you have it. More Google toys to play with to keep you entertained. Give these new features a try and see what you think. Comments welcome. Gmail Mobile Source. Gmail Canned Response Source. Gmail ...

Opinion: Nine Gmail features that I'd like to see
Latest from Computerworld — ... math test, that e-mail isn't going anywhere. Better to kick back and turn on the TV. Then came Gmail's Canned Responses -- automated e-mail responses for those lazy souls who can't be bothered to compose personal replies to their incoming mail. And Google recently announced ...

Gmail Added Canned Responses, Emoticons, Calendar and Docs Gadgets
LiewCF.com — Google Gmail launched 3 new features: canned responses, emoticons in Gmail, calendar and docs gadgets. Canned responses If you received a lot of emails everyday asking about some common questions, you will Gmail “canned responses” very useful. It allows you to compose your reply once and saved the message as “canned responses” then later you can open and send the same message again and again. You can also create Gmail filter to automatically reply incoming emails with your ...

How To: Have Multiple Signatures in Gmail with No Extensions, Userscripts or Bookmarklets Required
The Next Web — ... Gmail recently announced the availability of canned responses as a Gmail Labs feature. Canned Responses allow you to use ready made replies to emails which you receive regularly, particularly useful for customer service or sales. ...

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