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Gmail Unveils Another Weapon Against Email Overload: Smart Labels

44 points by philfreo 16y ago

aresant 16y ago
~5% of the average population is on Gmail, with 43%+ of users out there still stuck in Outlook. I always wonder why we don't see a more concerted effort to build a dead-simple email prioritizer / labeler for Outlook. Outlook has decent extension management features - Xobni has made some inroads but I feel like it addresses a much more complex set of needs and is unweildy for solving this basic problem. Microsoft made a somewhat interesting attempt w/their "email prioritizer" extension in MS Labs but they killed it rather quickly and I haven't seen much progress in releases that are managable / simple enough for the average user. So amongst all the hackers of hacker news is anybody working on a project along these lines? email prioritizer ref: http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-button-auto+ranking-to-email http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-... 43% ref : http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats
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- Semiapies 16y ago
  After I realized that Outlook's built-in filtering had a ridiculously low circa-1985 limit to its code, I just built a Python script to file things in my inbox. I haven't bothered making it user-friendly or "smart", however - it just goes by rules expressed in a yaml file.
neovive 16y ago
I like the idea of making it easier for everyone to use labels and filters. I couldn't imagine using Gmail without custom filters -- especially for notifications. This should be very useful for those using Gmail. Is this available for Google Apps customers?
- joshkaufman 16y ago
  Yes - just enabled it in my Google Apps account. You need to have Labs enabled.
zacharycohn 16y ago
About a year ago I set up a series of about 10 filters that essentially do the same function. This is definitely a useful Lab for people who don't want to spend 30 minutes setting up their own custom system.
RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Why link to TechCrunch, why not link to the original source, as requested in the guidelines? Look, here is a submission to the actual Google blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305782
- philfreo 16y ago
  I saw this on TechCrunch, thought it was cool, and posted it; they didn't link to the original Gmail blog source, so I figured they just found the feature on their own.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    That's the thing about TechCrunch - it's often a content-free wrap around an article that they then conveniently fail to reference.
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44 points by philfreo 16y ago

~5% of the average population is on Gmail, with 43%+ of users out there still stuck in Outlook. I always wonder why we don't see a more concerted effort to build a dead-simple email prioritizer / labeler for Outlook. Outlook has decent extension management features - Xobni has made some inroads but I feel like it addresses a much more complex set of needs and is unweildy for solving this basic problem. Microsoft made a somewhat interesting attempt w/their "email prioritizer" extension in MS Labs but they killed it rather quickly and I haven't seen much progress in releases that are managable / simple enough for the average user. So amongst all the hackers of hacker news is anybody working on a project along these lines? email prioritizer ref: http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-button-auto+ranking-to-email http://lifehacker.com/#!400639/email-prioritizer-adds-pause-... 43% ref : http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats http://litmus.com/resources/email-client-stats

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Semiapies 16y ago
After I realized that Outlook's built-in filtering had a ridiculously low circa-1985 limit to its code, I just built a Python script to file things in my inbox. I haven't bothered making it user-friendly or "smart", however - it just goes by rules expressed in a yaml file.

neovive 16y ago

I like the idea of making it easier for everyone to use labels and filters. I couldn't imagine using Gmail without custom filters -- especially for notifications. This should be very useful for those using Gmail. Is this available for Google Apps customers?

joshkaufman 16y ago
Yes - just enabled it in my Google Apps account. You need to have Labs enabled.

zacharycohn 16y ago

About a year ago I set up a series of about 10 filters that essentially do the same function. This is definitely a useful Lab for people who don't want to spend 30 minutes setting up their own custom system.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago

Why link to TechCrunch, why not link to the original source, as requested in the guidelines? Look, here is a submission to the actual Google blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305782

philfreo 16y ago
I saw this on TechCrunch, thought it was cool, and posted it; they didn't link to the original Gmail blog source, so I figured they just found the feature on their own.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  That's the thing about TechCrunch - it's often a content-free wrap around an article that they then conveniently fail to reference.

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