Gmail Finally Introduces (REAL) Folders
Since it’s early launch, Gmail users have been screaming for some Folder organization feature just like Yahoo! has. Gmail introduced later on Labels, which is a way to label your emails and you can use filters to automate this labeling based on email content. But that was still different from what people needed. Email would still show up in your Inbox just with a different label. Or else, you can Archive it with all other emails.
Today, Gmail started displaying new top button styles with the feature of moving those emails to your Labeled Folder.
Smartly, the Move To action uses same label names. So you first need to create new labels (folders), then you can both assign label to emails, and/or move them to the new folder, which for me is much better than just moving them.
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Qwaiti: You lost me here :(. You can still keep doing what you used to do. Let’s discuss it further when we’re together, should be easier.
Nice feature though I know I won’t make any use from it. I kinda got used to my scattered emails. ;p
I never needed those labels anyway. Simply archive and search whenever required. I don’t know if I’m going to use those folders either.
When I had a mac, I used to use quicksilver to search aplications I want to run. Wish Windows had something similar.
Google gets it right… search is king!
I think those who requested the feature are too lazy to apply a label and then archive, because that’s what the “Move To” button does :/
Finally! It is still done their own way… but finally! Now I can manage it better ma3anna I like to delete things hehehe as much as I can
Hyder Alamgir: I find labels useful, not sure if I’ll need folders, but they are useful as well. quicksilver.. Would launchy do your job on Windows?
Marzouq: Yeah, though some people here do seem to see it unnecessary I am surprised :)
MBH: Really? I don’t think so. While Archive does the job, it’s more of a work around. Archive is a mix of all emails, even if labeled. Folders would make it more clean.
Ansam: Really? Y? I understand for regular clips and photos, but otherwise, it’s really convenient to be able to dig any piece of history in your email in seconds!
nemo: simply put right :). Cant imagine life without it.
Folders are ancient technology. What matter does it make whether the emails are mixed or not? Put the label you want and that’s it!
If you need to search for an email with a certain label, then click on the label and look.
So now you make a folder called pictures and use multiple labels inside the emails inside it? Why not just use a label called pictures in addition to the rest of the labels?
:/
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10708&cbid=-1cvh5af2lub2b&src=cb&lev=answer
use labels.
folders as MBH said is to archive them and clean up your main inbox. It is useful if you want to immediately move specific emails such as FWDs or subscriptions and store them away from your main page. This comes handy when you check your inbox via mobile, you don’t get annoyed with incoming emails that you’d rather check later via PC.
MBH: True, but I for instance have excess amount of emails coming, some are usually not of immediate interest, and I dont wanna see them right now. Later on, I want to get back to this specific group only.
I know Archive would hide it, but why have one folder for Archive rather than separate ones. I still see some use for it.
Shaymaa: Frankly, I do not Archive at all. For some reason I don’t like it. But it still remain a fact some people prefer separate folders which contain only one email category, rather than collection of emails with different labels.
I use folders&rules to direct emails to specific folders, ex. subscriptions, specific source, to not clutter my inbox view. My main email is hotmail -don’t shoot me ;)-
MBH: Probably right :). Right now, I only use Labels. not even Archive. If an email doesn’t fit my inbox, then it can fit in my Trash. I know others however who needed to have Folders.
maryam: No need to. I’m sure plenty of other people would do that for me :/
I keep emails which I need only in the inbox, the others get archived. Less clutter.
I have over 15 labels .. some emails have multiple labels, but that’s rare.
MBH: Well I gotta give it to you. After trying to apply the folders, it turns out to be so impractical. My friend needed a way to label emails, save some for later use, and then when done archive it. But what we found out that, once an email is inside a folder, you cannot move it to Archive, it’s considered already there I guess. You need to move it back to Inbox, and then archive it.
In my friend’s case, he wants to keep unread or action needed emails in separate folders according to their type, e.g. work, family. Then, once he goes to folder, finish from email, wants to move it to the over all Archive. You can’t do that in one step it seems!
I think this is going to confuse me. I have just recently started my labels and now have to co-ordinate with folders?!!
My problem,
I label new emails and archive them so that my inbox looks clean and only from people I don’t get much emails from. Once the Inbox mail is read I archive it to clean the inbox.
My complaint is that I can not do the same when reading my Labeled emails. They are already archived and thus I need somehow to transfer them off my screen to clean it. I don’t want to loose the label at the same time. the only answer I see to this is to make another label for read email that is specific to each label I already have (so that I can remove the initial label and keep the second to have my sorting labels and clean my primary label folder).
How would Folders help me in this? I have to think it over.
Q.