Google Talk’s chat history in Gmail

by lawrence

This is too damn cool to ignore: Google has further integrated Gmail and Google Talk. Just do a little setting and your chat history on GTalk will be auto-saved into the “Chats” box in your Gmail account.

Here’s how to set: click on “Chats” in your Gmail web interface, and then “settings”, set it to “Save chat history in my Gmail account”, which is disabled by default.

You’re right, the function of saving chat history is hardly new, but what’s so cool about it is the smoothness of user experience: you send a message on GTalk, refresh your Chats box, and there you are - the message you just sent is already stored. With this kind of smooth experience, you wouldn’t care about what kind of technology is behind it - you wouldn’t even be aware of its existence.

Btw, you don’t have to use the official client of GTalk in order to benefit from the integration. Any client that supports XMPP protocol will do, for example, I use Adium on Mac.

Definitely my favorite Google service in the past few months.

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