Title: Revolutionize Your Email Game: Discover the Ultimate Hack to Keep Messages Unread in Apple Mail!
Introduction:
Emails have become synonymous with our daily lives, both in terms of work and personal communication. With the number of emails we receive every day, it can be challenging to keep up with them. If you’re an Apple Mail user, you might be frustrated with the way your messages keep getting marked as “read” automatically. Fear not! There’s a simple fix to keep your messages unread, and it will revolutionize your email game.
The Problem:
The biggest issue most Apple Mail users face is that the app automatically marks messages as read, even if you haven’t opened them. This creates a problem when you want to keep track of your new emails or remember to reply to them later. It becomes difficult to organize your inbox and manage your workflow. Even a small mistake of marking an email as read can be disastrous, leading to missed deadlines, lost opportunities, or upset clients.
The Solution:
The solution is simple, but not everyone knows how to do it. In just a few steps, you can enable an option in Apple Mail that will allow you to keep emails unread until you’re ready to read them.
Instructions:
Open Apple Mail and go to Preferences.
Click on the “Viewing” tab.
Look for the “Mark messages as read when viewed in the preview pane” option.
Uncheck the box next to that option.
Click “OK” to save the changes.
That’s it! You’ve now enabled the option to keep your messages unread until you’re ready to read them. You don’t have to worry about emails getting marked as read accidentally anymore.
Benefits:
The benefits of this hack are enormous. You can now keep track of your new emails efficiently, manage your inbox better, and prioritize your work based on urgency. You can also avoid missing any critical emails or losing out on opportunities. Moreover, knowing that your emails are unread until you’re ready to read them can reduce your stress levels and help you focus on other important tasks.
Conclusion:
Emails don’t have to be a source of stress or frustration anymore. With this simple hack, you can revolutionize your email game and take control of your inbox. Keeping your messages unread until you’re ready to read them can help you be more productive, stay organized, and maximize your potential. So go ahead and make this change today to streamline your workflow and achieve your goals.
Do you hate the way Apple Mail on the Mac automatically marks email messages as read as soon as you click on them? Do you wish there was a way to either delay the mark as read function or totally stop it from happening? If so, you’re not alone!
Not being able to truly preview messages (view without marking as read) has been an annoyance of mine every since I first started using Mail on my Mac. In every other email client I’ve used, there has always been a way to manually mark messages as read.
Personally, I don’t like to mark email messages as read until they’ve been taken care of. This way, I can see how many tasks I need to take care of just by looking at my email count. This is especially important for my business email account.
Apparently Apple just doesn’t understand how important this feature is, because they have yet to add it to the Mail app. Fortunately, there’s a Mail plugin called TruePreview. It’s an easy-to-use plugin that gives you the ability to mark messages as read immediately, never, or after a delay.
So if you’re ready to keep your messages marked as unread in Apple Mail, let’s get started.
Installation
The TruePreview plugin can be downloaded for free from the official Web page. You’ll need to download the plugin that matches your version of Mac OS X. The plugin supports Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) all the way up to Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
After you unzip and install the plugin, you should notice a new panel (titled TruePreview) in Mail’s preferences window (Mail menu -> Preferences).
Automatically Mark Messages as Read
The first section in TruePreview’s panel is titled, “Automatically Mark Messages as read.” There are three options to choose from: immediately, never or after so many seconds.
This is where you will change Mail’s default action to whatever suits your preference. To keep messages marked as unread until you mark them as read manually, select “Never.”
Immediately Mark Messages as Read When
Even though you may choose to never mark messages as read, you can still have messages marked as read when you perform certain actions in Mail. That’s what this section is for.
With TruePreview, you can choose to mark messages as read when you reply to or forward a message, scroll or click the preview pain and/or view a message in a separate window.
Per-Account Customizations
The final section of the TruePreview panel is per-account customizations. If you have more than one email account setup in Mail, you may not want to have the same options enabled for each one. TruePreview gives you the ability to specify settings independently on a per-account basis.
To do this, just use the drop-down menus and check-boxes to further customize each email account.
As you may notice, some options are enabled by default and cannot be changed, depending on your selections in the other two sections.
Conclusion
As you can see, TruePreview makes it’s really easy to keep your Mail messages marked as unread until you’re ready to do otherwise. No longer do you have to be frustrated by Mail forcing your messages to be marked as read.
TruePreview is not only easy to setup, but it’s a really quick and painless process. In a matter of minutes, you’ll have “true preview” enabled for you account.
Do you use TruePreview or something similar to stop Mail from marking your messages automatically as read?
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Charnita has been a Freelance Writer & Professional Blogger since 2008. As an early adopter she loves trying out new apps and services. As a Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS user, she has a great love for bleeding edge technology. You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.
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