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4 Jul 2020, 07:30 AM | #1 |
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Labels - "to try or not to try?"
.... that is the question.
I have many folders setup and they are in an order that I want to keep. If I try labels:
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4 Jul 2020, 03:21 PM | #2 |
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I just answered your other post about moving searches up to the top, and my method works best in labels mode. Here are answers to your new questions:
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4 Jul 2020, 03:24 PM | #3 |
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Thanks Bill.
Good to know that I can swap between them while I try out Labels without losing my folder structure. |
8 Jul 2020, 10:58 AM | #4 |
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Well I am trying out labels.
All good so far. One thing I noticed that is interesting is that one can assign a label in the compose screen. This effectively brings back the file-into functionality that the very old interface had in the compose screen but was lost when the UI changed some years ago. In order to work around this loss I have been creating "personalities" that have a file-in-specific-folder function. This was a pain because I would create a new personality for each new job (ie folder) where I wanted to file my emails - and use the dropdown in the from field to select the correct personality. This resulted in many personalities to manage and was a disincentive to create such personalities and auto filing system. Now I can just add the appropriate label during composition. That's a bonus. |
9 Jul 2020, 10:08 AM | #5 |
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Labels in Conversation Mode
Using Labels in Conversation mode is confusing - possibly even misleading.
When in conversation mode, the applicable labels will be listed under the single subject header at the top of the conversation. When you go to the individual emails inside the conversation, there are no lables shwon on each email. So one cannot tell what labels are applying to individual emails. I thought, well, does this mean that the labels listed at the top of the conversation are being applied globally to each email in the thread? The answer is no. Some emails in the thread might have no labels assigned. This behaviour is different to folders, where each email in a conversation would show which folder it was in. With this info, re-filing into a correct folder could be carried out. This cannot be done with labels because one cannot see the label (if any) that is applied to each email in a conversation thread. This is a problem for me. Later, when I want to archive emails by label (in lieu of using folders) I might miss some emails in a thread because I couldn't see that I needed to re-label them. Anyone else have this problem and worked out how to solve this? |
14 Jul 2020, 06:35 AM | #6 |
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Am I understanding the "All Mail" label correctly? Under this label is every email in my account? When I go to the Labels screen there is a Label called "Archive" which has a few hundred messages, but I can see no way to display just those messages. Apparently they lack a label. But am I correct in that those messages under the label "Archive" will be included in a display of "All Mail"? Even if I can't immediately locate the "Archive" messages?
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When I swap from Folders to Labels, I do sometimes see some emails with the label "Archive", but this label disappears after a refresh such as by selecting a different folder. After which the label "Archive" no longer appears on any emails. But I can see the emails that where in my Archive folder when I view All Mail in label mode. |
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