Comments on: Gmail labels are now more like folders

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:24:24 +0000

I agree that arranging order of labels would be nice. Another thing I’d like is that any labels that have unread items show, and any where everything is read is hidden.

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:18:54 +0000

all the people complaining about messages moving from inbox. Two ways to handle this. 1) set up filters for everything and make sure that archive is not checked, or 2) this is what I did, filter everything and include archiving, and use the ‘all mail’ folder as your inbox, anything that gets left in inbox when it arrives means you have more filters to set up. This way you can still add more filters manually when it is in the ‘all mail’ box.

On the grease monkey script thing, I saw comments that people are working on it and hoping to have it working again shortly.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:34:26 +0000

Fubar — I think it has always been that way, I know I’ve noticed it before the most recent change. I don’t know where they end up, but you can search and find the files. SSDD

By: FubarGuy

FubarGuy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:48 +0000

This may be more of a bug, but some times a message will get labeled mistakenly (not by me, when it arrives, say as a “password” item) and when I Remove the label, message isn’t back in the Inbox where I’d expect. Where do they go to live, on a farm??

By: Jeramiah

Jeramiah — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:43:56 +0000

I got it.
I hate it.
I was using folders 4 gmail greasemonkey script which helped separate my emails between clients (with sub categories for each client), different admin aspects, and other varying projects or personal emails. I have many different projects, often overlapping, and labels with folders made it easy to find what I needed fast.

Now I can’t just access one section of emails, like drilling down on my clients folder to choose a specific client, or seraching a section from a specific person on a specific topic. Now I have to see and sort through an entire list of labels or use the search function – which still gives me a lot to sort through.

I really like the labels idea – especially in conjunction with folders, but this new labels set up REALLY just shoots me in the foot.

Wish I could opt out.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:09 +0000

I agree with Jeff. Now anything labeled through a filter disappears from the Inbox. That’s not what I think most people would want. Too bad Google broke the label system from the way they taught people to use it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Got it today, and I want the old way back. I assign all of my labels via keyboard shortcuts, so all this does for me is push my calander further down the screen. SSDD

By: Shkermaker

Shkermaker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:35:56 +0000

Got it this morning – Mail on my G1 keeps crashing and i have to force close it though – Obviously all the bugs havent been ironed out…..

By: jay

jay — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:59 +0000

seems to work fine, just the same as before but now quicker to assign labels.

By: Jackie Cheng

Jackie Cheng — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:50:07 +0000

It’s live now. Works pretty good. I wish it didn’t alphabetize the labels or at least have an option to organize the order of the labels ourselves.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:59:21 +0000

@aphid You are absolutely right. But this new layout/feature/whateveryouwanttocallit makes labels work more like old school folders due to the drag and drop abilities. Gmail newbies might miss out on the fact that you can associate multiple labels on one message.

By: aphid

aphid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:40:05 +0000

Importantly, labels did not change intofolders. Rather than storing a separate copy of each mail in each folder, I can just apply multiple labels to a single email.

That means I can have a single message that’s related to “work,” from a “friend,” and related to a particular “project” that I created a label for. I can add and remove labels without having to worry about multiple copies of the message, and if I later send it to the Trash, it’s disappears everywhere. Sure, you can treat a label as if it’s a folder, but you can do more with them if you want to.

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:33:44 +0000

…But Gmail has eliminated “Right-Side Labels” in labs. Blech.