The Bottom Line
- Gmail Search Bookmarks lets you save Gmail searches as browser bookmarks
- The Gmail search bookmarklets work in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari
- Gmail Search Bookmarks supports Google apps accounts with custom Gmail domain names
- If you use many saved searches, Gmail Search Bookmarks may be a tad unwieldy
- When Google changes Gmail's JavaScript code, your search bookmarklets can stop working
Description
- Gmail Search Bookmarks creates bookmarklets that perform saved searches in Gmail.
- Saved Gmail Search Bookmarks searches avoid reloading Gmail upon access.
- You can specify Gmail Search Bookmarks bookmarks to use a secure HTTPS connection.
- Gmail Search Bookmarks works with Gmail and Google Apps email.
- Gmail Search Bookmarks bookmarks work in Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2 and Safari 3.
Guide Review - Gmail Search Bookmarks - Gmail Bookmarklet Generator
If only Gmail would make it easier to find the right queries again and again. Once you have found the search terms and operators that show you exactly the messages you need — and will need again, possibly with different results, tomorrow, and next week — you can either learn the string by heart or save it to some text file or text expander.
Or create a bookmark. Not a classical bookmark, mind you. That would work, but it's clumsy to create and slow to load. No, what you want is a bookmarklet. A Gmail Search Bookmarks bookmarklet.
Gmail Search Bookmarks lets you specify the desired query and returns some JavaScript code that, dragged to your bookmarks toolbar or menu or sidebar, does all the typing and clicking for you. Gmail Search Bookmarks saved searches work pleasantly fast and get you to the desired search results with grace.
Optionally, you can make your bookmarklet use a secure HTTPS connection to Gmail. If you use Google Apps that should be no problem either: Gmail Search Bookmarks lets you specify the custom domain to use.
The only downsides to a Gmail Search Bookmarks bookmarklet are that it is browser-bound, hence does not show up in Gmail itself, and that any Gmail update can break your saved searches.
