Marking Mail Messages as Unread

Friday, November 12 2010

By: chrisb

Easy to see later

Mark As Unread
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Sometimes, if I just have a quick minute to scan through my email, I will start to read a message and realize that it requires more attention later. Yes, I could flag the message to show its importance, but the most obvious mail attribute to me is unread (bold) and read (not bold).

You can easily mark a message as unread from the Menu Bar. Go to Messages / Mark / As Unread. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Shift-Command-U.

Then when you go back through your mail later when you have more time, the messages you marked as Unread will jump right out at you.