folders or ymail

[folders or ymail]

I use folders to organize my paper work - not labels, filters,
definitions or
any other complex systems and - despite the elegance of my doctor's
complex color-coded file system requiring special training, lots of
set-up and time to maintain - I'm not interested. I want simple
folders.

Having amassed over 3,000 messages, I am preparing for the big job of
moving to ymail and using blessedly simple and for my purposes
functional folders and I daresay, others will follow.

Whether of not gmail is fast at searching is irrelevant - email
relating to a subject may or may not include the word(s) being
searched for.

So while fast search is good, it is absurd to insist on not making
available other, complementary, ways of grouping and sorting that are
simple, intuitive and appear to work for most people.

[Zack (Doc)]

Labels can be used as folders (believe it or not but the "folders" on
your hard drive are nothing more than a system of labels). Simply
apply a single label to a message and archive it. That label is then
effectively the same as a folder. Use an IMAP client and it'll treat
it as folders for you, and then you'll have the best of all possible
worlds.

But, if you've already made up your mind and committed to leaving
GMail, then I wish you luck with your transition. We're nothing but a
user's group, so we'll help you if you have questions, but won't force
you to stay with a system you're not happy with.

--
Ray Bradbury - "I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two
always go together. When people ask your ...

[Nick Chirchirillo]

If you want to use folders, why not put one label on an email, then archive it?  Then, you click that label name, and it's like you're opening a folder.  Labels are much more simple than folders.  You can attach multiple labels to a single email.  You can not do that with folders.  Labels actually lead to more organization since it allows you to keep ONE copy in multiple "places".


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-Nick

[Chuck Mattsen]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:54 PM, folders or ymail <lipa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Whether of not gmail is fast at searching is irrelevant - email
relating to a subject may or may not include the word(s) being
searched for.

I agree ... speed of search is irrelevant (or, at least, relatively so) when discussing the oh-so-tired folders vs. labels question. It's more of a matter of preference ... though I still don't understand how the two methods are really all so different in practice beyond, perhaps, that tiny mental leap one has to make at first when adopting a new paradigm (assuming one can). I have all of my mail nicely sorted according to labels, with a clean inbox, and a nice set of nested labels that -- for all intents and purposes -- look and act just like a set of folders for me.  <shrug>
 

So while fast search is good, it is absurd to insist on not making
available other, complementary, ways of grouping and sorting that are
simple, intuitive and appear to work for most people.

Errrmm ... I'd say it's probably more absurd to try to please everyone.  That becomes quickly apparent when reading the wish lists for /any/ bit of software or any online site. Eventually, some faction will annouce that it's taking its ball and going home, assuming that will stop everyone from playing. Well, that's not always the case.

To each his or her own.

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