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That's what Filters and Labels are for.
by auctiontheory 13y ago
That's what Filters and Labels are for.
- csallen 13y agoExactly. It astonishes me how few people make use of filters and labels.
- lloeki 13y agoRewind to 10 years ago. - "Hey I'm most in a sea of spam!" - "That's what rules and folders are about. It astonishes me how few people like to spend days constructing manual filters to weed out spam from their inbox" Someone adds Bayesian filtering to MUAs/MDAs, classifying mail as (SPAM|NOT SPAM). The world rejoices as the intricate filter building interface got reduced to two buttons, and the complexity of combating spam went from O(n) to O(1), and email became manageable again. Fast forward to present time - "Hey, now that the problem of spam is solved, email is useful again. So useful in fact that I'm now lost in a sea of emails!" - "That's what filters and labels are about. It astonishes me how few people like to spend days constructing manual filters to classify email" Someone adds Bayesian filtering to MUAs/MDAs, classifying mail as (X|NOT X), for interesting values of X. The world rejoices as the intricate filter building interface got reduced to two buttons, and the complexity of classifying email went from O(n) to O(1), and email became manageable again.
- reledi 13y agoI make heavy use of filters and labels, so much that it's become messy. This new tabbed inbox is a welcome addition.
- com2kid 13y agoIn my experience, the second I move something out of my inbox and into a label I never see it again. That entire left sidebar in Gmail is so messy I pretty much entirely forget about anything that gets lost in there.
- aneth4 13y agoBecause filters and labels are so fun to manage.