On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM, ColdFusion <[email protected]> wrote: > Now If I want to have nested labels in GMail, I know you can create the top > level: ColdFusion and then a sub like: ColdFusion\SubFolder1
I don't think that labels were designed to be nested. They are not really "folders", they are more like meta information or tags. I use to pop another account from GMail and I either created a filter to label it with the email account - or Gmail did that automagically (I don't remember which). This of the labels more like "tags" or "categories" on a blog or in Flickr etc and it will make alot more sense to you. Feel free to try to imulate subfolders if that's what you really want, but it may also help to take a step back from the solution you are trying to apply and consider solving the problem a different way. The problem may not be that you need subfolders, it may be that you think you need to be able to categorize things a certain way so you can find messages in the future. Well, I've found that GMail searches your mailbox so effectively that labeling things is almost a bother. I still label mailing lists and such to get them out of my inbox, but have stopped labeling client mail entirely. I found that searching for it was *SO* much faster than labeling every little message. Messages can also have multiple labels, where-as they can only be in one physical "folder" in Outlook. Once you get this mindset it also opens up the possibility of creating things like labels for mail you actually care about reading. For example, you can create a label just for CF-Community people you want to read, CF-Talk authors you want to read, etc. That label becomes "hot-topics" or whatever, and you have a nice one-stop spot to read all that "valuable mail" without the clutter. At the same time, it still lives in it's CF-Talk label too if you want to go find it there. You can apply this same idea using client's email addresses. Anyway - if you aren't flexible on how to organize and find things, then give the sub-folder thing a full run, but I found that once I let go of that pre-conceived notion on organization I was actually better off. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294346 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
