Can you set up folders in Gmail?

question from David S, Sept 2006, permalink

From David:
Can you set up folders/directories on gmail?

I have it but remember reading somewhere that you should just search rather than arrange your emails.

I think you gave me it!

Hi David,

Gmail uses labels instead of folders to hold the mail. They serve the same purpose, but labels are much better. All the labels appear on your sidebar and they look just like folders. You can create and delete labels anytime you wish.

Labels have great advantages over the classic folder method. Since an email can only be in in one place, a classic folder system means you have to file it into a folder. Gmail allows you to tag the email with any number of labels. This makes it so much easier to find what you are looking for.

Example: A letter from your friend flying model airplanes while he was on vacation with you. Tag it with "friends" "airplane" "vacation".

I typically don't spend any time looking through labels for email. The Gmail search works blazingly fast and is simply fantastic for finding what you are looking for.

On the other hand, you might be thinking of "Gmail Drive" or "Gmail Space" both of which allow you to store files in your Gmail account. The Gmail Drive actually appears in your computer as virtual hard drive that you can drag and drop files into and it also allows you to create folders for your files, just like any other hard drive on your PC.

The main reason this works so well is that Gmail gives you 2.7gb of space for your email. I get hundreds of emails a week and I'm only using 10% of my space after using it over a year.

http://freewarewiki.com/GmailDrive
http://freewarewiki.com/GmailSpace

Have fun!

Clif


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