Exactly. Once you label an email with all the labels you want, you then archive it to get it out of your inbox. There is no way to label and archive in one step, though. Still, as Grant said, you can use filters which makes things easier, automatically labeling emails based on whom they are from and/or to, the subject, the text, and whether or not there is an attachment (you can mix and match all those). You can also use filters to tell gMail to skip the inbox for messages, labeling them and hiding them in one step. This is handy for, say, a list you don't check much. Just open up its label every so often and you have all your messages, but none ever went to the inbox. Filters are very powerful and handy once you get used to them. As before, though, you need to be in basic html to get to settings, where you set all this up.
On 4/10/12, Grant Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jessica, > > Labels are analogous to folders in Gmail. You can't have > traditional folders in Gmail, but your labels essentially act > like folders. The only difference is that you can assign an Email > to more than one label at a time. But if you want to use labels > as you would use traditional folders, then simply be sure that no > message is assigned to more than one label. > > You can also set up filters so that messages are automatically > assigned to labels based upon certain criteria. For example my > BrailleNote List emails are assigned to a label called > BrailleNote; my Viphone list Emails are assigned to a label > called Viphone, and so on. Then in addition, all those Emails are > assigned to an additional label called Lists, so that I can > quickly access Email from any list. This makes searching for > Emails very easy to, because for example, if you wanted to search > for a particular Email but did not want to see any list Emails in > the search results, you could simply enter as your search query, > "sample search -label:lists". The dash lets Gmail know that you > want to exclude something from your search, in this case your > 'Lists' label. > > Hope this helps, > > Grant > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [email protected] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
