<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Zachary Kotlarek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zach@kotlarek.com">zach@kotlarek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Tim Wilson wrote:<br>
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It's all about flexibility. With the typical folder system, if you put an e-mail in the folder, that's the only place it appears. With labels, if you don't want to move it out of your inbox you don't have to. Plus you can have the same e-mail labeled multiple times. For example, I have a Shopping label for places like Newegg, Buy.com, etc. I also have a label for each place.<br>
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I'd just hold down the option/ctrl key while dragging the message to a new folder to make a copy.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, but now you have that same e-mail twice. If you delete it, you have to delete it twice.<br>
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So if I'm looking for something from Newegg, I can just click that label.<br>
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I'd select the NewEgg folder, then type in the search bar.<div class="im"><br>
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However, if I'm looking for something and don't remember where I saw it, I can go to Shopping and search there.<br>
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I'd select all folders inside the Shopping folder, then type in the search bar. With the added benefit of never needing to label for both "NewEgg" and "Shopping" in the first place.<div class="im">
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Sure, you might be able to get some of this functionality from an app, but from a webmail provider?<br>
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That one you've got me on. Gmail is by far one of the best webmail clients available. Though Horde's DIMP (dynamic IMP) is pretty good too -- it's almost like a local mail client. ;-)<br>
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But I'm not really excited about *any* email client, web-based or otherwise. I was just trying to figure out why labels were better than folders; I think the answer is "some clients make it easier to use labels than make copies" -- is there more to it than that?</blockquote>
<div><br>Instead of cluttering up your e-mail with copies of e-mails, labels allow you to have the same e-mail in multiple areas. Plus, I have filters set up to automatically label e-mails from Newegg with both the Newegg label AND the Shopping label. I don't have to do anything special now that the filters are set up. One thing I do need, is a filter to delete e-mail after a certain age. I just checked my Shopping label, and I have e-mails that are over a year old! Something tells me those prices are out of date.<br>
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