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Gmail Labs recently added two new features for the user’s inbox and mail attachment, providing further ease of access. These features may be experimental, but certainly one of these feature’s cause for me is a likely convenience. One of them is the “Mark as Read” button, which’s only of little use, as its need occurs rather less.

The other being a automatic but rather basic script that notifies/warns you (if you write about it in the email/ text area) when you forget to actually attach a file, and mention it. The attachment detector comes into play when a user is mentioning in his email, before sending it, that he is attaching such and such files… but actually forgets to attach them in the first place.

Although the attachment detector sounds like a neat addition, it couldn’t recognize words like “I attached a file”, “Check the attached file”. Seemingly it worked with the words “I’ve attached…” and “I have attached…” Though with ‘Grease-monkey’ scripts like Gmail attachments reminder the task of installing a certain extension or using Firefox is no longer required.