Comments on: Great News: Gmail now has Folders

By: Arend

Arend — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:40:31 +0000

Nested Labels graduated from Gmail Labs and is now a standard feature:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/3-labs-graduations-1-retirement.html

By: bob

bob — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:22:50 +0000

nested folders are not in labs anymore, this script is needed again

By: dmpg

dmpg — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:58:42 +0000

I will copy and paste the last comment because it represents all that I’ve wanted to say:

“I also just wanted to say thanks very much for folders4gmail for the last couple of years. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into it.”

By: My Sentry

My Sentry — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:04:11 +0000

I also just wanted to say thanks very much for folders4gmail for the last couple of years. It was for me too a deciding factor in moving to gmail and I couldn’t have lived without it! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into it.

By: Vincent Liopard.

Vincent Liopard. — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:31:09 +0000

Regarding to rename from backslashes to slashes, no one noticed that it will break many filters.

GMail filters seems to not understand slashes as labels and are broken this way.

I am the only one person in the world that noticed this bug?

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:22:56 +0000

Thank you very much for your work to offer us Folder4Gmail. It was a great great feature.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:51:13 +0000

Surrano’s solution is stupid. The whole point of folders and nested labels is so that everything is visible.

By: teejayhanton

teejayhanton — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:21:56 +0000

Thank you for providing your extension when Gmail didn’t have the feature. Your work really made my inbox easy to manage!

By: belg4mit

belg4mit — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:36:25 +0000

Nested labels sucks. Not only is it something that Google can decide to take unsupport at any time (though the same could be said of Folders4Gmail), it craps out if you have many labels. Because Gmail is already so JavaScript heavy, the extra overhead makes initial loading painful and can cause a script timeout error. Surrano’s solution is of no help if you have deep labels, e.g; I have one folder with several dozen underneath, and hiding sub-folders is asinine. Yet as a plugin e.g; in Better Gmail2; it seems to run separately and is therefore *much* faster. Viva FoldersGmail!

By: Surrano

Surrano — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:03:19 +0000

I discovered that nested labels are not so sluggish after all… provided that the number of _visible_ (i.e. not hidden) labels is not too much.

With 1700 hidden labels and a total of 23 shown (if expanded) it’s piece of cake to log in or do anything else.

What’s the catch, you might ask. First, you have to hide all those tons of labels. But if you click “Hide all” you can wait… possibly forever (I waited some 3 hours for it to finish, but it didn’t) and the labels will not be hidden after all. So here’s how:

1. Turn off Nested Labels lab. Voila, GMail is more responsive than ever.

2. Go to Settings -> Labels, and hide all.

3. Unhide (Show) those you wish to keep visible. Don’t forget parents as well!

4. Enable Nested Labels lab. And, surprise, it works with an acceptable speed.

Note: if you wish to use nested labels GMail just like you use My Machine in Windows (everything’s visible, just click-click-click…) it’s not much of an option for you.

If, however, you use GMail just like me, i.e.
- Create tons of labels, in a shallow but wide structure
- Assign labels to mark conversations (many labels per conversation), especially those lacking the proper search keywords
- Look up labels by searching for them (i.e. write “l:Family-Mum” — note the dash instead of slash)

this is one possible good way to go.