• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    5 months ago

    I really do hate Gmail’s ability to sort

    It’s got tabs on top but doesn’t let you make custom ones to sort your emails as they come in

    It’s right there

    Please let me use them

  • 7EP6vuI@feddit.de
    18·
    5 months ago

    i was really disappointed by gmail when i was forced to use it at work. i was not looking forward to use it, but i wanted to give it a chance. i don’t understand why its so popular. there are so many annoying gui issues:

    • new mails in a “folder” make it bold, but selecting the folder to look into the mails, also make the folder bold
    • the real settings interface is hidden behind two clicks, i think i never used the settings visible after the first click…
    • the “new mail” interface is a joke. i want to write a mail, not a chat…
    • you have to use # to delete mails.
    • you can not select multiple mails with shift, but you have to use those check boxes in the front of each line.
    • ares35@kbin.social
      7·
      5 months ago

      there’s tons of annoyances in the ui… and if you dare hook up a regular imap client you get a whole different batch of them.

      it’s popular because of the viral nature of its beginnings. it was ‘new’ from google so got more than its fair share of media attention, lots of storage (for the time), and you needed an ‘invite’ to get in–people were selling them on ebay, ffs.

    • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      5 months ago

      Having migrated from yahoo a long time ago, Gmail was a significant improvement in usability and spam filtering. And even today with its flaws, gmail is still better than most other services I’ve tried. The only comparable ones I’ve tried are probably outlook and zoho.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    Labels are better than folders, though, because messages can fit in multiple categories.

  • Beefalo@midwest.socialEnglish
    71·
    5 months ago

    FUCKING ai to replace all the screenwriters, artists, and copywriters just by asking for the thing you want, but I STILL have to put my email away in its little folders MANUALLY like an ASSHOLE because it turns out that LABELS are just for FUN boy, it sure would be AWFUL if labeling an email the same as its FOLDER just PUT THE FUCKING EMAIL AWAY IN THE FOLDER WHEN IT SHOWS UP, but of course. I am the peasant. And I must look at each email, because each email is somebody’s ad, and I guess that is why the email is “free”.

  • alansuspect@aussie.zone
    4·
    5 months ago

    But what if you want to put an email in two different folders? Labels are far superior. I just switched from Gmail to Proton and hardly use folders.

    • RagingHungryPandaOP
      2·
      23 days ago

      I could probably get by if I had a negative label with “don’t show me every fucking event from our CI/CD systems”

  • froggers@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 months ago

    Tell me about it.

    I just wanted to organize my emails better, was thinking about folders for different email addresses and found out that Gmail has no folders besides the default ones and instead I have to use labels.

    Also, and I might just misremember this, but couldn’t you make folders like a few years back?

    • Infinite@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Labels are just folders where one message can be in multiple at once, if you choose to do that.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    A tip for people complaining here: “Inbox” is just another label, and can be removed manually or with a rule by Archiving the email. This allows you to move emails to a folder and remove them from your inbox, which are two different things in gmail.