Oh, the folder crunching is annoying! I even went so far as to reduce the numbers of folders that i had so that they all display without any crunching, AND wit

Oh, the folder crunching is annoying! I even went so far as to reduce the numbers of folders that i had so that they all display without any crunching, AND without my needing to apply another click just to expand the view to see them...Then i asked myself WTF? I'm changing my way of working because of crappy UI decisions by gmail designers? But instead of re-building up more folders, just kept with the minimal amount of folders...and then i tried to use search...Meh. Now, I'm trying to get to inbox-near-zero (achieving true zero is silly and excessive i think). My becoming ruthless with incoming emails (again only to near-zero) has felt ok - not great, but ok. none of this is because of some great feature from gmail mind you. (Gosh, i really wish i could use native thunderbird on the desktop of my work's computer!)