+10 cc i thoroughly agree On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM, ColdFusion <coldfus...@mindkeeper.net> wrote: >> Now If I want to have nested labels in GMail, I know you can create the top >> level: ColdFusion and then a sub like: ColdFusion\SubFolder1 > > I don't think that labels were designed to be nested. They are not > really "folders", they are more like meta information or tags. I use > to pop another account from GMail and I either created a filter to > label it with the email account - or Gmail did that automagically (I > don't remember which). > > This of the labels more like "tags" or "categories" on a blog or in > Flickr etc and it will make alot more sense to you. Feel free to try > to imulate subfolders if that's what you really want, but it may also > help to take a step back from the solution you are trying to apply and > consider solving the problem a different way. > > The problem may not be that you need subfolders, it may be that you > think you need to be able to categorize things a certain way so you > can find messages in the future. Well, I've found that GMail searches > your mailbox so effectively that labeling things is almost a bother. > I still label mailing lists and such to get them out of my inbox, but > have stopped labeling client mail entirely. I found that searching > for it was *SO* much faster than labeling every little message. > > Messages can also have multiple labels, where-as they can only be in > one physical "folder" in Outlook. Once you get this mindset it also > opens up the possibility of creating things like labels for mail you > actually care about reading. For example, you can create a label just > for CF-Community people you want to read, CF-Talk authors you want to > read, etc. That label becomes "hot-topics" or whatever, and you have > a nice one-stop spot to read all that "valuable mail" without the > clutter. At the same time, it still lives in it's CF-Talk label too > if you want to go find it there. > > You can apply this same idea using client's email addresses. > > Anyway - if you aren't flexible on how to organize and find things, > then give the sub-folder thing a full run, but I found that once I let > go of that pre-conceived notion on organization I was actually better > off. > > -Cameron > > -- > Cameron Childress > Sumo Consulting Inc > http://www.sumoc.com > --- > cell: 678.637.5072 > aim: cameroncf > email: camer...@gmail.co > >
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