Navigation Drawers (Email)
This chapter describes how to use the navigation drawer. Let's look in first the navigation drawer for email!
The navigation drawer is a panel that displays the Nine’s main navigation options on the left edge of the screen. It is hidden most of the time, but is revealed when the user swipes a finger from the left edge of the screen or, while at the top in the app, the user touches the navigation drawer icon at the top left in the action bar.
The role of the navigation drawer is the same as doing that of Nine's control center, and the functions that are essential to the currently selected application are mainly placed here.
This Navigation Drawer is to show different menu according to the status of a selected app like email, calendar, and contacts. All main features are put in here, you can use conveniently in most views selected by a user.
Ways to call the Navigation drawer
There are two ways to call the Navigation drawer in Nine depending on a selected app. As per each app, this button’s color relies on the main color of a user interface.
Using swiping action from the left of the screen
Using the hamburger button on the top-left of the screen (
)
All Accounts
This is an icon to show emails existing in the Inbox folder of all accounts in which you want to see all emails at once. If you have several accounts in Nine and want to see all emails at once, you can see it tap this icon or touch the down-arrow in the top right of Navigation Drawer.
a User (No image default)
If you don't register any sender image for your account, it will be used as a default sender image. You can change this round icon's background color and a photo for this account to others. (It's placed on Settings > Account settings - select an account you want to change > Personal info > Color or Photo)
Add Account
It allows you to add a new account by tapping down arrow. Tap (+) Add account to create a new account. With multiple accounts, you can choose an account. Once you select All Accounts, all email messages associated with your accounts will be shown in the unified mailbox. You can also differentiate which emails belong to account through account color bar in the unified mailbox.
All Mail
This folder icon means that it will show all email messages of all folders in Nine. Because of displaying all emails of all folders, if looking at the email list view, you can discover which folder contained a message through a folder name displayed under the message's preview.
Unread
The number of this icon means that it shows unread message count in all your folders. Allows you to view all unread email messages in Nine. Due to the restriction of size, if you have unread emails more than 100, it will indicate up to 99.
Flagged
The message with a flag means that there are some works to have to do any follow-up associated with this message. For example, the follow-up for flagged messages might be a meeting arrangement, documenting, making a call, reporting, and visiting, etc.
Inbox
Generally, if an email message would arrive into your account, it saves the Inbox folder. Therefore, if you tap this icon of the Inbox, it will show all emails in Inbox folder.
Sent
It shows all emails in Sent folder. Usually, all email messages users sent are saved here.
Outbox
If you tap this icon, it will show email messages remained in the Outbox folder. Outbox is a temporary holding folder for outgoing messages composed within the program. The folder holds your messages until you click the "Send/Receive" button or if you have set to send outgoing messages automatically.
Trash
This is the trash folder to be saved the deleted messages. If you would not have forced to empty this trash folder, the email messages deleted from other folders will be left here. You can also move the deleted messages to an original folder or other folders.
Folders
These 3 dot icons will show a list of current folders including custom folders added by a user. The folder list will seem like coming from the right. When this list comes up, you can select a folder to view. If you touch the overflow menu (so-called kebob menu or more-vert), you can collapse all folder list or expand all list.
Attachment
If you touched this icon in Navigation drawer, attachments including emails of the all accounts will be showed on the list.
VIP
It allows you to view all email messages sent from VIP. If options icon (
) at the right end next to VIP menu is tapped, you can see all VIPs including name and email address in VIP list. As you'll see later, there is an option to set up notifications for VIP messages. Here you can set silence, sound, LED, and icon style, etc.
Favorites
The Favorites is a useful feature deployed at the bottom-last of Navigation drawer, which can help us to access some folders of user’s account quickly in Nine. However, this favorite item won’t be displayed in case of selecting All Accounts. It’s by design. Favorites feature is regarding the folder-related function, you can set the sorting method and select folders to sync with the server respectively, as well as the heart icon with white dot (
) will be marked if you select a folder with subfolders as Favorites, and you can also manage folders using features such as adding a new folder, selecting the synchronization.
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Sync status message
If you look at the top-middle of Navigation Drawers, you can make sure the timestamp last synced, and there is the icon next to the timestamp, it will allow you to change the view type to list or grid.
The following icons are available at the bottom of the navigation drawer.
It's an icon like a hotkey to go to email application of Nine. Once tapped this icon to go to email, then the default folder's message list will be displayed.
Calendar
This is an icon like a hotkey to go to the Calendar application of Nine. It allows you to view, edit and create an event in the calendar. In Calendar, the Navigation drawer for Calendar can be used as it is like Email.
Contacts
It allows you to view, edit or create a contact. It's an icon like a hotkey for Contacts. Once you long press Contacts icon, the shortcut for Contacts will be added in the home screen.
Tasks
It allows you to view, edit or create a task. All of the tasks can be shared with other Nine apps, as well as sharing with other apps via Bluetooth or Cloud. Once you long press Tasks icon, the shortcut for Tasks will be added in the home screen.
Notes
It allows you to view, edit and create a note. It's kind of memo app in Nine. Once you long press Notes icon, the shortcut for Notes will be added in the home screen.
Settings
It allows you to view/edit the Settings in Nine. Regarding all the options for Nine's various apps, you can go to the Settings by tapping this icon. In Settings, you can set not only the accounts related options, but also Nine application's use options.
* When it comes to shortcuts for Nine apps, besides a way with long pressing corresponding app icon in the bottom of Navigation Drawer, you can make a shortcut in your background by using the following setting.
Settings > General > Actions > Shortcuts
At this settings, you can create a shortcut on your home screen of Android devices. Also at the shortcut setting above, you can specify the shortcut mode of corresponding apps like whether launching directly one of the built-in apps of Nine or letting start with a new item (email message, event, task, note) when you enter Nine by long-tap.
If you choose a New item, it allows launching a new item action in Nine by long-tap
If you choose Application mode, the Application mode allows you to launch directly one of the apps in Nine by long-tap.
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