Google’s data-crunching ways found that the majority of Gmail users aren’t actually using the webmail service’s labels. Starting today, those label names get higher placement, and drag-and-drop labeling aims to make Gmail’s labels more like familiar email folders. By placing users’ own labels higher up on the left-hand sidebar, right below the main Inbox/Starred/Sent/Drafts/All Mail destinations, Gmail admits that keeping them in their own box, stuck underneath the chat widget, implied they weren’t that important before. Fixes like those contained in Gina’s Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension and the “Go to label” keyboard shortcut in Gmail’s Labs section helped, but now labels are easier to reach, and kept more at the front of your email-clearing mind.
via Lifehacker
July 02, 2009, 1:45pm