# Why I love gmail **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577 "2010-04-19T00:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/1 "2010-04-19T00:03:43Z")
Just wrote an email and hit “send.” A box popped up: There’s no attachment, and you said “see attached” in the body of your email – do you really want to send? [paraphrase] Thank god someone’s paying attention to what I’m doing, obviously I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/2 "2010-04-19T00:06:00Z")
Yip. Gmail’s got a lot of cool extra features. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/3 "2010-04-19T00:10:31Z")
Now you can add an attachment by just dragging it onto your email. Been wanting that for a long time! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/4 "2010-04-19T08:15:14Z")
I’m liking the mouse gestures that you can add in the “Labs” section. Right-click and move right to go to the next message, left for previous, up to go back to the inbox. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/5 "2010-04-19T12:49:17Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Just wrote an email and hit “send.” > > A box popped up: There’s no attachment, and you said “see attached” in the body of your email – do you really want to send? [paraphrase] > > Thank god someone’s paying attention to what I’m doing, obviously I’m not. Yeah, that’s funny. I just read this post the other day and thought, “Wow, how cool!” And then I just now sent an email that referred to an attachment and forgot to put the attachment on and gmail didn’t say anything at all. Boy did I look like a dope. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/6 "2010-04-19T18:13:41Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Yeah, that’s funny. I just read this post the other day and thought, “Wow, how cool!” And then I just now sent an email that referred to an attachment and forgot to put the attachment on and gmail didn’t say anything at all. Boy did I look like a dope. :smack: It worked for me. Perhaps you spelled “see attached” incorrectly, or you’re not under the same 24-hour electronic monitoring program as the OP and I apparently are. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/7 "2010-04-19T18:21:50Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Yeah, that’s funny. I just read this post the other day and thought, “Wow, how cool!” And then I just now sent an email that referred to an attachment and forgot to put the attachment on and gmail didn’t say anything at all. Boy did I look like a dope. :smack: Have you turned the reminder option on in your settings? ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-gmail/536577/8 "2010-04-19T19:03:36Z")
I knew Gmail was awesome but not this awesome… off to my settings to enable this feature!