Google wants you to voice your opinion on the cool new features that would make GMail even more useful. All you have to do is go through and check a few boxes for the new features that you would like to see. Here are the options that they currently have available:
- Personalization
- Customize my Gmail color scheme
- Create my own keyboard shortcuts
- Automatically email my new Gmail address to all of my contacts
- Always display external images sent by my contacts
- Organization
- Filter my outgoing messages
- Switch Conversation View on or off
- Bells & Whistles
- Delete attachments from a message
- Import messages from my other email accounts
- Automatically apply new filters to old conversations
- Helpful Additions
- Ability to add or remove messages from conversations
- Click a button to delete a message
- Control whether people I send mail to are added to Contacts
You get to pick 5 of the choices but you can also suggest a feature that is not currently on the list. It looks like they forgot to remove the “Click a button to delete a message” option when they implemented that back in January.
Apparently they do really listen to suggestions because these are the features that they say have been suggested and implemented already:
- Import addresses into my Contacts list
- Search my Contacts list
- Save message drafts
- Automatic email forwarding
- See the number of new spam messages from my inbox
- Free automatic forwarding
- Free POP access
- New messages notifier
- Signature options
- Support for more browsers
So I wonder what will be next now? The biggest feature that I would like to have is the ability to control whether people that I send an email to are added to my Contact list. I’m glad to see that was a choice on the list. 
I would like to see Google create an extension to sync my address book with Thunderbird (I don’t think that there is one now??)
Nice to see Google is sticking to their word that they are focusing on improving their current products/services, rather than coming out with more products/services.
Cool to see they are reaching out to the community to get their suggestions on it, and their priority list of what’s most important to them. Very simple and good way to decide what features to implement, get further feedback, and set priority level for certain features.
I don’t know if they’ve done anything like this before, but I hope they continue to.
Read Receipts and Delivery Confirmation.
I’ve been asking for this from them since the start of GMail!
Get an IMAP access ! That would be a great innovation !
One thing I suggested was the ability to forward messages as an attachment.