Create backup threads by relatedness in time

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In Gmail, one can easily search for the name of a recipient to see all the 
messages sent to or received from that recipient.

However, it is far more difficult to see all the messages from a specific 
time period.

Thus, it would be nice if messages are clumped together only if they are 
near in time to each other.

For example: add a new message to an existing thread if it is at most 
within 3 hours from the most recent one in the thread

Given how Gmail works, however, I'm not sure if this is actually 
possible...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aris.lan...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 5:45

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I am currently not analyzing any threading from the device but let Gmail figure 
that 
out by person_id, i.e. sender/recipient of the message. To break that apart by 
relatedness in time would require quite a lot of work (to develop and for the 
device).

What could be done fairly "easily" is clumping together messages within fixed 
date 
buckets, but still separated by sender/recipient. For example all messages 
from/to 
Alice from 8am-10am would be in one clump, from 10am-12pm in another. Even if 
you 
received messages at 9:59am and 10:01am from Alice.

Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 6:14

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Original comment by chstu...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 6:18

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After I posted this, I thought about the implementation.  It would definitely 
require 
a bit of background processing, e.g., a database in the background mapping each 
SMS 
to a "grouping key."  That would just be too much work.  Besides, I don't even 
think 
the G1 can handle something like that without coming to a crawl.  Oh well.  We 
should  
urge Google to change the messaging module from the ground up to accommodate 
this.

Original comment by aris.lan...@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2009 at 6:37

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I know NOTHING of the technical issues, but I'd *love* a simple date bucket per 
day.

Original comment by erik.jac...@gmail.com on 27 Nov 2009 at 8:22

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I think this would be possible if the date was put in the subject. Since this 
would be 
same for one day, the messages for that day would be threaded, and the next day 
would 
start another thread.

If this could work, I think it should be an option to choose in the app rather 
than 
being the rule for everyone.

Just my thoughts :)

Original comment by ben.mcwh...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 3:35