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You can actually create filters in Gmail which would be like a saved search. Once you've searched for something, click on the arrow on the right, and then "Crea

• btown 6y ago
  Of course, and you can create labels that track that filter's application in the same way a materialized view would work. But we don't CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW, or worse yet UPDATE a many-to-many table, every time we want to run an exploratory analysis on our SQL databases and save our ability to rerun that analysis for later, right? Because that would create a ton of bloat, and we might lose track of the labels that we actually want to be permanently meaningful, and if a label is ever added manually, there's no guarantee that the label tracks the initial intent of the search query. And that doesn't even get into the fact that any such labeling is visible as a tag on every matched conversation, leading to a need to have a concise name for your analysis to avoid information overload. Naming things is hard, and when designing interfaces, reducing cognitive load isn't just a nice-to-have.
  • alisonkisk 6y ago
    Gmail used to have saved searches https://irvineco.wixsite.com/goinggoogle/single-post/2014/10/07/this-is-the-title-of-your-first-blog-post https://irvineco.wixsite.com/goinggoogle/single-post/2014/10...
• agentdrtran 6y ago
  Which you can only re-use by saving the filter as a label, and you can only have about 200 labels before performance starts to torpedo.
• jfrunyon 6y ago
  Filters are not 'saved searches', they are 'apply this to every incoming message'...