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New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels
- jmotion 16y agoI'm fed up with Gmail lately. Priority Inbox is a mess. And lots of mail keeps going to 'Spam', which before I moved was hidden. Most 'Spam' is from my support ticket software. I mark it 'Not spam', and it still goes there. Perhaps it's time for someone to release a simple online mail service..
- ElbertF 16y agoAdd the sender e-mail address to your address book. If that doesn't help, create a filter. Priority inbox can be turned off.
- gkoberger 16y agoWhile not a game changing feature for most people here (since most people have their own filters that do this), it's a great feature for the non-techies using GMail. GMail does a great job of keeping everyone happy. An example is how they added "Folders" (edit: it's called 'move to', but it's basically folders) for people who didn't understand labels, without ruining labels.
- twodayslate 16y agoI didn't even notice they added "folders". But yeah... not going to use this.
- stanleydrew 16y agoSorry to call you out, but what is the point of this comment?
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- metageek 16y agoIt seems to be a common opinion on Hacker News that you shouldn't write a comment just saying "I agree"; that's what the upvote arrow is for.
- chris_j 16y agoIf that's what the upvote arrow is for then I may have been using it wrongly; I often upvote comments that I disagree with, if they add something to the discussion. (I'm with you on not simply commenting "I agree", which is what I assume the gpp said. It would be good to add something to the discussion as well)
- twymer 16y agoNo I believe you're right on this (though I'm not a particularly heavy HN user). Upvoting things you agree with implies that you should downvote things you don't agree with and that really isn't appropriate.
- YuriNiyazov 16y agoThe upvote has two uses: 1) interesting comment that contributes to discussion with which I may or may not agree with. 2) I agree. The first use case is preferable to the second one. If you happen to agree with a comment that isn't interesting nor contributes anything to the discussion, then maybe your agreement with it is irrelevant as well.
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- furyg3 16y agoI have my own filters/rules which do this ("social" for FB/LinkedIn/Twitter and "not-people"), but this google labs feature does a better job at catching these types of notifications than my rules did. I add one or two "not-people" rules a week, also, which is getting silly. Good job, GMail team!
- billmcneale 16y agoFYI it's "Gmail" (lowercase m).
- mbrubeck 16y agoAs long as they use an uppercase M glyph in their logo, I will capitalize it however I like. :)
- billmcneale 16y agoYeah, that's a funny contradiction, but trust me, I work on the Gmail team. Check out the spelling in the blog posts on Google's own blog: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
- yannickmahe 16y agoSeems to me the non-techie doesn't even know about the labs features. Techies might use it though, if only to see how it works.
- nakkiel 16y agoKeeping everyone happy? I'm still looking for a way to properly handle Launchpad bug reports.
- twodayslate 16y agoWhat they need to do is make "Nested Labels" and "Hide Read Labels" work nicely together. Also for "Nested Labels", enabling a label count of the sub-labels in the main label would be great. Where did "Hide Read Labels" go?
- lean 16y agoSettings > Labels > Show in label list > show if unread
- avree 16y agoI hope they add the ability to re-order labels soon. Either that, or Sparrow adds some ability to re-order labels and slightly better label integration.
- avk 16y agoWhy do you need to re-order labels? And do you mean in a conversation or in the sidebar?
- avree 16y agoIn the sidebar.
- seanieb 16y agoIn the side bar, and I assume he means he'd like to reorder them, in order of priority. The top labels being most important. I'm +1 on this.
- ditojim 16y agoyou can use special characters like @ and # in front of the labels you want to keep up at the top. you can even use the nested labels gmail lab to group them together.
- brown9-2 16y agoDo you mean you'd like to have labels displayed on the sidebar in something other than alphabetical order?
- vl 16y agoI just name my labels with prefixes or with just single letter so they are in the right order. "a" is the most important to read, "u" is staff I rarely read at all.
- smiler 16y agoIs this bad news for people who do send out mass mailings with marketing campaigns etc?
- awakeasleep 16y agoYes, extremely bad. Email sales rely on the fact that people need to take action to get the email out of their face. It's an attention-intensive process. This will shift that dynamic to the other side, where people will need to go out of the way to check their marketing messages. For sites like LivingSocial, it'll be especially bad because those deals may expire before they're even seen.
- duck 16y agoIt will be interesting how this affects my open rate for Hacker Newsletter. I'll write something up and share if it does.
- twymer 16y agoDoubtful. I think people who enable things in their gmail labs are probably already filtering out the mail from marketing campaigns they don't care about.
- avk 16y agoNeat. I wonder what OtherInbox makes of this? Their organizer feature is basically this.
- samstokes 16y agoAnyone know whether this learns from your actions, in the same way as spam filtering and Priority Inbox do? i.e. if I remove the Bulk label from a conversation, does that make similar conversations less likely to be labelled as Bulk in future?
- dugmartin 16y agoThe cynic in me thinks this feature was built to push Groupon emails to a now auto hidden "bulk" area.
- radicaldreamer 16y agoAnd Facebook Notifications, perhaps?
- gurraman 16y agoThis is nice, but please: release a feature that lets you add notes to messages already! I have so many threads in which I've left open drafts to be able to add a few comments.
- seanieb 16y agoI'm disappointed how they solved this problem. I was hoping they would use clustering to figure out what label to apply based on whats already been labelled. I thought that was the next logical step from 'Priority Inbox'.
- jordanlyall 16y agoDitching custom labels and filters in favor of this. Bye bye bacn.
- AndreSegers 16y agoAgreed. Eager to see how well these work in the longterm.
- lukeschlather 16y agoAs administrator of a Google Apps account, will my messages get marked as bulk mailings if I send out something to everyone in my organization? I suppose I could ask the same about the priority inbox. Because there are certain classes of messages I may have to send out that everyone needs to read. I guess this could be mitigated by some sort of an urgent notification from your admin feature on the Google Apps dashboard. I suspect I might send some mailings I'm content to let Gmail mark as bulk.
- samstokes 16y agoWhile the smart label feature itself works in Google Apps, it seems like the configuration support (editing the default filters etc) doesn't. I can't seem to edit any of the smart-label filters through the Settings dialog.
- twymer 16y agoI turned this on and a ton of my auto archived mail started showing up in my inbox. Seems cool though but I immediately turned it off.
- will_critchlow 16y agoI'm not seeing this in my (paid, google apps) account - does anyone know if it's rolled out for everyone?