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Thanks, Warren. Call me old fashion, but I just
can't get away from Outlook (for work and personal), because I have this
attachment to physically seeing the folders and being able to manually drag
messages to them, and also being able to have all my info on my computer, vs. in
a server on Gmail. I also have a lot of folders inside folders, as
sub-categories. How would you do that in Gmail? Seems like the labels could get
complicated.
Kris
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Krispen,
Let me clarify
on the label thing, because it confused me at first, until a co-worker clued
me in: you want to set up a filter, for instance, to tag all email from this
group with the label "Looper's Delight", and also to "Skip Inbox". That way,
it looks like it's in the Looper's Delight folder, which you see when you
click on the Looper's Delight label on the left side of your screen (assuming
you've set up the label). But you don't see it in your inbox - it goes
directly to the archive.
This simulates folders quite well. You can
also tag messages with several labels based on their content, so they appear
to belong in several "folders" at once.
In general, I use fewer folder
in gmail because I throw almost everything into the archive and just use
Search to find it (in fact, LD and JOTT are my ONLY gmail "folders", but
that's probably because I still have to use Outlook for my work email, so I
put stuff into project-related folders there). I've found that as info
overload becomes omnipresent in my life, what previously looked like being
organized now looks like being overly organized. YMMV
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Krispen Hartung < info@krispenhartung.com>
wrote: > I tried Gmail, but I just don't like the interface. I like
being able to > make traditional folders, being able to have
viewing pane, and being able > to work on email offline.
Per, you said there was a new client based Gmail > program?
Where is it?
/ Lab". I stopped using it though because it is in
beta still and
can't deal with attachments. I need attachments since I
use email to
deliver articles to magazines and mail them my
invoices.
The trick to correspond on speed (!) with gmail is to use
its "Label"
functionality as you normally use "sorting into folders" on
a
traditional mailing client. IMO the threading is where gmail
beats
local systems.
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Warren
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