Steven, you bring up an interesting point that nobody has mentioned yet. Gmail's search is light years beyond any desktop email app search. This is one of gmail's greatest assets. Search makes it so easy to find old forgotten email based on label, sender, or just plain old keywords.
Not to mention that if you use gtalk also you can search all your old discussion logs.. And to chime in and agree with a number of comments, the only thing labels don't do that folders do is hierarchy .. Label + Archive gives you the same result as putting a message in a folder. On 10/11/07, Steven Pautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One feature I use fairly frequently, but which I haven't seen discussion on > previously, is omitting certain labels from a search. I mark all messages > from IxDA/SigIA/CHI-*/other lists under a single label, then apply > additional labels to identify things like job, conference, and event > listings. To search all lists for a topic, without getting a zillion > job/conference/event listings mixed into the results, add one or more > negated label terms (eg, " -label:events.listings"). Stringing together a > bunch of negated label terms is also, to my knowledge, the only way to > search for unlabeled messages. > > This adds an additional potential benefit not offered by folder-based > systems: 'carving up' a result set using the organization (ie, not just > keywords) to remove items which are sometimes signal, sometimes noise. For > my use, this makes the labeling systems by gmail and delicious many times > more effective than labels by themselves. > > ~Steven Pautz -- Matt Nish-Lapidus email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
