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You are here: Home / Tech / FireFox / Gmail adds folders

Gmail adds folders

February 4, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Ok so they “sort of” added folder. Even though Gmail still uses labels, you can treat them like folders starting from today.

Gmail added a “move to” drop-down that combines two actions that were difficult to find or difficult to understand: labeling and archiving. Instead of clicking on “More actions”, selecting a label and then archiving the message, you can now click on “Move to” and select a label.

So what’s the difference between the two drop-downs?

“Move to” applies the label selected from the list and removes the label of the current view.

GMail "Move To"

“Labels” lets you add or remove labels from the list in a single action. You no longer have to repeatedly click on “More actions” to add multiple labels (THANK YOU GOOGLE).

GMail's Improved Labels

Of course you still get the straight drop down… NESTED labels are a needed addition. You can add nested labels with FireFox addons though. I personally recommend the Better GMail 2 addon available via LifeHacker. It’s a compilation of some of the best Greasemonkey user scripts that add features to Gmail.

One of my favorites, and something Google SHOULD add, is nested labels. They look and work like Folders that most users are familiar with from other email clients.

Folders4Gmail

If you don’t see the new features in your Gmail account, they’ll be enabled in the next few hours (I see it active in my GMail already). If you’re interested in the Better Gmail 2 addon you can grab it from LifeHacker here.

Filed Under: FireFox, GMail, Google, iGoogle, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: google

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

I run. I meditate. I dance. I blog at PaulSpoerry.com, tweet @PaulSpoerry, and I'm here on Google+.

I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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