Orchestration of thoughts

Orchestration of thoughts

Maheshwaran Subramaniya  //  A computer science engineer and mac geek, who pour thoughts on technology, computer science, mathematics and other thoughtful stuffs.

I'm blogging at My Mind Leaks ( http://mymindleaks.com )

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Jul 1 / 9:20pm

Gmail labels, how useful is that?

Gmail has revolutionise the concepts of labelling in mailings. The concept of folders are now at the stage of obsolete. A conversation can be have more than one label. The labeling has become a kind of tagging. More than one label has been labelled on a conversation. But, did labels improvised the concepts of folder? Yes, you do label it and archive it, it acts as a folder. Whoa! what a brilliant concept. Now the mail conversation exists in more than one folder. Kind of Quantum mechanics, the object exists in more than one location.

And Today Gmail had a new featured showed on to the face. The drag and drop feature for the mails into labels. Gmail is constantly improving with the User Interface. But sometime, such user improvements doesn't give much improvement to the user experience. Similarly, this drag and drop doesn't make me feel that it's actually improved my working style.

I'll tell you why. When I drag one ore more conversations(s) into a label, all the conversation are first labeled and then archived. But why is the conversations archived by default when I drop the conversations, I didn't expect them to be archived.
 
Lets say, I've a label called "Followup", and I move the items to Followup. What I expect is,

  1. Either the items count is shown in the Followup label area like "Followup ( 12 )", unless there are any unread mails in it.
  2. The conversations should be visible to my eyes. So that I don't forget that there are some mails for follow up. 

Because, Gmail doesn't have an option to setup follow-up remainder for conversations, which will pop-up according to the remainder.So, I would like all those conversation to be in front of my eyes, even though I move them to a folder / label them or just show up counts near the labels. I'm testing other gmail features too and will post soon on how I felt about them. And if Gmail team feels that my suggestions are quite useful, I would be glad!

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