After being a hard core BlackBerry user for easily over five years, I finally today found what I have been wanting since day one: a BlackBerry Unread Message view that would closely mimic Outlook’s Unread Mail Search Folder.
Because of BlackBerry Enterprise integration with Microsoft Exchange, I enjoy the power of jumping between Outlook and BlackBerry to work my communications in my professional and personal life. Long ago, I gave up on filing Outlook Email Messages and instead used the Read/Unread mail toggle as my mechanism to manage mail. I only mark a message as read if I am done with it. I keep messages as unread when I need to follow up. I toggle the flag as necessary to keep under control.
I do the same thing on my BlackBerry. However, until today, I thought I had to hit “b” to go to the bottom and then hit “u” to scroll up to the next unread message.
I found this post, Saved Searches – Find Unread Messages, and it unlocked the mystery of this missing feature. You can read the post but bottom-line, use Message Search to create a Saved Search that is assigned to an Alt-Key combination. While the article suggests using Alt-U, I disagree because Alt-U is my toggle/untoggle flag while reading a message. I chose Alt-T but anything will work if it doesn’t conflict with an existing short-cut key combination.
My hope is that this just helped you become that much more productive. If you have any obsure BlackBerry tips, please share.
Marty Zigman
Holding all three official certifications, Marty is regarded as the top NetSuite expert and leads a team of senior professionals at Prolecto Resources, Inc. He is a former Deloitte & Touche CPA and has held CTO roles. For over 30 years, Marty has produced leadership in ERP, CRM and eCommerce business systems. Contact Marty to set up a conversation.
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