In Gmail I had about 20 labels. Now I have added more, for example the ones in the attachment. And I started having trouble figuring out how to quickly move messages into these labels, so that I could then process them quickly and keep everything organized. I use FF 3.6. Moving them by D’n’D from the inbox didn’t work for me.
Too bad that Gmail has no message preview, so I had to work around it by opening 2 windows of Gmail side by side – in one I was moving and in the other loading. However, this didn’t work. Oh, I have just figured out how to move messages by DND, so I’ll do it this way. It could be much better in terms of controls, but I have at least made some progress. So I wanted to try the Android client.
However, it didn’t load all the messages, not when I clicked refresh, not when I enabled sync, and not even when both of these were done. I tried to find an app on the Android Market that would work as a Gmail client, but I found nothing. The same goes for desktop applications. You may ask why I didn’t move them from the opened message, when there is a “Move to” option.
The reason is simple: for some labels I would have to scroll for a long time, because only max. 10 of them are shown. Only now did it occur to me to name the labels with the prefix _0, 0, or _, and I think this will be the best solution. Why does the best solution always occur to me only when I’m writing it on Posterous? 🙂