# Private messages should have column labels

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-messages-should-have-column-labels/53497>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [Novembro 28, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-messages-should-have-column-labels/53497 "2016-11-28T19:14:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Novembro 29, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/private-messages-should-have-column-labels/53497/9 "2016-11-29T00:46:03Z")

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Understood, but taking the gmail analogy they get away fine without column headers.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/8/68fff8ae3060f860217d21ea528a649ace0de28c.png)

I think the **first** thing to do is nuke “views” cause it just leads to confusion. You don’t care about views, what you care about is that people you are interacting with are up to date on the PM and read everything.

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