If you’re a hardcore Gmail user who receives tons of emails constantly, you should be using the label feature to organize your emails. And Gmail adds a color pallete for you to paint your labels to your like from now on. You can now color the labels to your liking and it will show out more clearer when you have a page with lots of labels.
Unlike other email services, Gmail throws your mails into a big pool call Inbox and allows you to label each mail, and not allowing you to actually group mails into folders and not be shown in the big pool. While a folder is what I would rather like than labeling the emails I got, nevertheless I am still delighted to see Gmail coming up with this feature to make labels more attractive to the users.
On a side note, Gmail Blog says that they are working on a folder-y-ish feature, so I guess we might be getting to see folders in Gmail after all. This colored labels will only work on Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 and above. So don’t complain if you can’t see them, it’s just your call to upgrade your browsers.
Rahul says:
I never understood why people don’t find GMail labels advantageous. You cannot store a single mail in multiple folders but you give a single mail multiple labels. Labels still do the job of folders if you archive whatever mails you store with their tags.
4 December 2007, 6:18 pmAlvin Chan says:
And why can’t we just have a simple folder to store mails which are to be archive and not be shown in the inbox everytime we login to Gmail?
The folders is definitely a need there, and tagging mails simply isn’t enough for us to organize our mails.
4 December 2007, 7:02 pmAndrás Kardos says:
Would be much more interesting/useful to label contacts, not only messages. Labelling all work-related contacts would mark all work related mail with one label & color. There’s no other way to do that. Contact groups are not that useful. What do you think?
4 December 2007, 7:48 pmMirinda Milos says:
@Andras
agreed. Labeling contacts would be a wise choice. I personally experience a headache too when it comes to managing large contacts in your Gmail.
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