I don’t really consider this worthy of being called a “hack”, but I noticed that if you load the all anchor within G-Mail, you see all received messages, regardless of whether they’re in your Inbox, your archive, or in a folder. It could be useful if you know you received a message at a certain time, but not sure where it went.
To do this, open your G-Mail Inbox and change #inbox to #all in the URL. It should look something like this:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all
In fact, after examining some of the JavaScript that comes down with the G-Mail page:
function Ol(b){nl.call(this,"all",b)}function Pl(b){nl.call(this,"archive",b)}function Ql(b){nl.call(this,"chats",b)}function Rl(b){nl.call(this,"delivered",b)}function Sl(b){nl.call(this,"drafts",b)}function Tl(b){nl.call(this,"inbox",b)}function Ul(b){nl.call(this,"muted",b)}function Vl(b){nl.call(this,"outbox",b)}function Wl(b){nl.call(this,"sent",b)}function Xl(b){nl.call(this,"spam",b)}function Yl(b){nl.call(this,"starred",b)}function Zl(b){nl.call(this,"trash",b)}
It seems that you can use any of these to bookmark a specific view into G-Mail:
- all: View all messages
- archive: View archived messages
- chats: View chats
- delivered: Not sure
- drafts: View drafts
- inbox: Default, view your inbox
- muted: Not sure
- outbox: Outbox, but doesn’t seem to work
- sent: View sent items
- spam: View your spam folder
- starred: View starred messages only
- trash: View trashed messages
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