Question:Is there some setting or workaround for Gmail to highlight an entire line if the email is both unread and from certain people without changing the sort order?Background:My company is switching from Microsoft Office to Google. I'm very used to Outlook and haven't used Gmail in years. I have searched the Chrome Store, SuperUser, WebApps, and the web in general without finding an answer to this.I rely heavily on conditional formatting in Microsoft Outlook. Any unread emails from my management are shown in a larger-than-normal, bold, red font. Unread emails from purchasing are in a blue font and our receiving inspection group is green. They key points I really like about this approach are:Important emails call attention to themselves by changing the entire line they appear on instead of just a small iconEmails remain in order by date receivedThe color-coding / resizing is automatically applied when it is receivedThe color-coding / resizing is automatically removed after I read the messageMy Own Efforts:Here's what I have tried in Gmail to recreate this and why each falls short: (My company will no longer use a desktop client so the solution must be web-based.)Use filters to apply label MANAGEMENT and make it big and red.It's fairly easy to see but not across the entire line. I could live with this, though.It sticks around even after I've read the email which is explicitly not what I want.Use filters to mark them as Important or some starMarking as important gives the same importance for all groups, which won't work.Marking then with stars et al. are not distinctive enough for them to pop like I wantUse Priority Inbox to show unread messages from management firstIt throws the emails out of order. If the email chain goes coworker-coworker-boss-coworker, I want to read all those emails to put the boss's in context and also make sure I don't look stupid by repeating things that others said.Related points that may matter:I don't use Conversation View. For what I want to do, that may make it worse, right? If the boss sends an email and someone else replies to it, it would show up as them in my inbox instead of boss, right?I have Tampermonkey and am comfortable using a script to solve the problem.
Can you conditionally format Gmail?
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