I hate gmail...

[raeoflyte]

I've been using it for years, but I absolutely hate that you can't file emails in folders.  (and if you can do that now and I'm just too slow to realize it--please someone show me how!)

Assuming that isn't the case though, what free email should I switch to?  I can't bear the idea of making the switch to something that sucks just as bad and then have yet another email address to try to untangle myself from.  

Suggestions?  

[Deleted]

I hate gmail too.  I have an account just for my crap mail.  I like hotmail.  I have LOTS of folders.  Like 25. 

[mollyanna58]

I can make folders in Yahoo.  I like it well enough.

[Plain Old Petunia]

I still like hotmail. 

[raeoflyte]

Won't I get made fun of if I have hotmail?     Not that I'd care.  I will take anything over gmail.  

Although--any issues with spam getting through the filters on the others?  

[siralynn]

You can make "labels" in gmail, which is essentially folder-like functionality. They'll show in a list down the left side of the screen, under the "compose" button.

[Sunnyday]

I can't tell you how to do it, because I am on my smartphone.

But you can create folders. But I think that they are not called folders but rather labels. At any rate, all my emails that are labelled "home maintenance emails" are on a folder type thing when I access my gmail account on
my iPhone.

[raeoflyte]

I've tried the labels, but they all still sit in my inbox and its difficult to tell what I've dealt with and what I haven't.  Am I missing something or are you guys just more organized than I am?  

I haven't had any personal email that needed to be "dealt" with in a long time, but now that I have school emails and an actual volunteer commitment I'm getting bogged down.  I also need to take time to unsubscribe from everything.  If I want something from groupon I'll go to their website.  

[Deleted]

Aug 22, 2014 14:16:34 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Won't I get made fun of if I have hotmail?     Not that I'd care.  I will take anything over gmail.  

Although--any issues with spam getting through the filters on the others?  

I guess it's not called Hotmail anymore.  My ex and I both had hotmail accounts, but his address is @msn.com and mine is @live.com  Not sure what happened

My LIVE account gets almost no junk mail.  It's very rare that one gets through at all.

[siralynn]

Aug 22, 2014 14:22:42 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I've tried the labels, but they all still sit in my inbox and its difficult to tell what I've dealt with and what I haven't.  Am I missing something or are you guys just more organized than I am?  

I haven't had any personal email that needed to be "dealt" with in a long time, but now that I have school emails and an actual volunteer commitment I'm getting bogged down.  I also need to take time to unsubscribe from everything.  If I want something from groupon I'll go to their website.  

Use the archive button when you're done with the conversation and it will no longer show in your inbox. You'll be able to find it later if needed via the label or by searching "all mail".

As far as groupon-type stuff goes, do you have the tab-sorting activated in your account? Sometime in the last year or so, Gmail started automatically sorting emails into a primary, social, and promotions tab. I occasionally miss stuff in a timely fashion (like if a contact sends a message via LinkedIn and it ends up on the "social" tab I only look at once in awhile). But it should automatically sort stuff like groupon emails to the "promotions" tab.

[justme]

I have a ton of folders in Gmail. Some have mail from certain emails going directly into it. They're called labels. It allows you to have one email in several folders, or just one if you want. 

[justme]

There's a way to uncheck the label for inbox...can't remember exactly how right now. 

[Opti]

All free emails suck. They just suck in different ways.

I think both gmail and Yahoo will drop features during upgrades

so anything you find you like now might be just a version a way

from being less useful to you.

I use Yahoo which does have folders, but does not allow nesting

of folders like can be done in Microsoft products as an example.

[raeoflyte]

Aug 22, 2014 14:27:33 GMT -5 justme said:

There's a way to uncheck the label for inbox...can't remember exactly how right now. 

hmmm....this sounds intriguing.  I'll have to see what I can figure out. 

[Chocolate Lover]

Aug 22, 2014 14:31:28 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Aug 22, 2014 14:27:33 GMT -5 justme said:

There's a way to uncheck the label for inbox...can't remember exactly how right now. 

hmmm....this sounds intriguing.  I'll have to see what I can figure out. 

Look under filters, you can make it bypass the inbox altogether.

[justme]

Aug 22, 2014 14:31:28 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

Aug 22, 2014 14:27:33 GMT -5 justme said:

There's a way to uncheck the label for inbox...can't remember exactly how right now. 

hmmm....this sounds intriguing.  I'll have to see what I can figure out. 

Poking around a bit it sounds like the archive button does that now. So you'd add whatever label you want to it and then click archive and it should only be found in that label. 

Also, maybe checking the boxes and using the 'Move' menu instead of 'Label' menu might do that?

[cktc]

Aug 22, 2014 14:26:30 GMT -5 justme said:

I have a ton of folders in Gmail. Some have mail from certain emails going directly into it. They're called labels. It allows you to have one email in several folders, or just one if you want. 

Same here. 

When you select an email a little folder icon appears at the top of your emails. You can make new folders "labels", move stuff, create rules. I belong to a listserv that gets 15+ emails a day so it all goes straight to its own folder and I have it set not to show unread messages so I don't have to see any of them unless I'm so inclined. 

[Ryan]

Aug 22, 2014 14:22:42 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I've tried the labels, but they all still sit in my inbox and its difficult to tell what I've dealt with and what I haven't.  Am I missing something or are you guys just more organized than I am?  

I haven't had any personal email that needed to be "dealt" with in a long time, but now that I have school emails and an actual volunteer commitment I'm getting bogged down.  I also need to take time to unsubscribe from everything.  If I want something from groupon I'll go to their website.  

Gmail is awesome, you just need to get used to learning how to use Labels and filters.  If you simply want to keep track of all your emails from your Grandma, then you can just apply the label as the email comes in and it will remain in your inbox.  Once you read it, you can archive it and it will still be searchable under that label.  

If you don't want to see it, but more just keep it organized, you can choose the option to apply the label and skip the inbox.  That way it stays organized in the folder but declutters the inbox.

[Opti]

Aug 22, 2014 14:40:06 GMT -5 Ryan said:

Aug 22, 2014 14:22:42 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I've tried the labels, but they all still sit in my inbox and its difficult to tell what I've dealt with and what I haven't.  Am I missing something or are you guys just more organized than I am?  

I haven't had any personal email that needed to be "dealt" with in a long time, but now that I have school emails and an actual volunteer commitment I'm getting bogged down.  I also need to take time to unsubscribe from everything.  If I want something from groupon I'll go to their website.  

Gmail is awesome, you just need to get used to learning how to use Labels and filters.  If you simply want to keep track of all your emails from your Grandma, then you can just apply the label as the email comes in and it will remain in your inbox.  Once you read it, you can archive it and it will still be searchable under that label.  

If you don't want to see it, but more just keep it organized, you can choose the option to apply the label and skip the inbox.  That way it stays organized in the folder but declutters the inbox.

I have Gmail, but don't use it much as Yahoo.

In Yahoo I toss emails in folders and it can be a way to

get it out of the inbox but find it again easily. Does the label

system in Gmail allow you to view all emails with the same label easily?

[Ryan]

Aug 22, 2014 15:26:10 GMT -5 Opti said:

Aug 22, 2014 14:40:06 GMT -5 Ryan said:

Gmail is awesome, you just need to get used to learning how to use Labels and filters.  If you simply want to keep track of all your emails from your Grandma, then you can just apply the label as the email comes in and it will remain in your inbox.  Once you read it, you can archive it and it will still be searchable under that label.  

If you don't want to see it, but more just keep it organized, you can choose the option to apply the label and skip the inbox.  That way it stays organized in the folder but declutters the inbox.

I have Gmail, but don't use it much as Yahoo.

In Yahoo I toss emails in folders and it can be a way to

get it out of the inbox but find it again easily. Does the label

system in Gmail allow you to view all emails with the same label easily?

Yes, can create as many labels as you want and they display on the side just like folders do. You just click and all messages with that label display. You can either apply labels manually (as the messages come in) or setup a filter, which is basically a rule.

My email strategy is actually to leave everything in the inbox and only label/skip the inbox if it's something I'm not going to look at (except possibly an occasional reference). If it's something I need to come back to, I STAR in and then go back and review it later along with the other important stuff that's starred.

Even at work where we use outlook, I don’t use any folders. A lot of people like making folders in outlook and moving things around, but I think people spend too much time trying to organize it. I basically just keep the main inbox and then an archived inbox of things that I reviewed and am done with.

With gmail, the labels are almost just a search shortcut. That’s actually why I love gmail so much is that the search is really the best. I don’t really worry about keeping emails organized because it’s so easy to find something after the fact.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

i have folders in gmail. i can't remember how i made them. 

[tallguy]

Aug 22, 2014 14:05:57 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

I've been using it for years, but I absolutely hate that you can't file emails in folders.  (and if you can do that now and I'm just too slow to realize it--please someone show me how!)

Assuming that isn't the case though, what free email should I switch to?  I can't bear the idea of making the switch to something that sucks just as bad and then have yet another email address to try to untangle myself from.  

Suggestions?  

Yes.  Use the "Move to" button.  It will move them out of your inbox into whichever label you choose. 

[TheOtherMe]

I prefer gmail over any other email I have.  I use labels and keep all conversations pertaining to a certain topic in the label.  

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

I use Hotmail (and have for years). It's now called Outlook Mail.

You can create folders there.

[raeoflyte]

I used to think I was reasonably intelligent and fairly tech savvy until now.  I tried to set up labels, but now 90% of my emails I can't get to except on my phone (and the screen shattered on Friday so I'm trying to avoid using it much until I have a replacement).  I have no idea how to undo what I did and I can't figure out how it decides what to send through.  It will let through a forward from someone, but it won't let through an email from that same person that was typed specifically for me.  

[Blonde Granny]

I have a Hotmail.com account

I have 2 Hotmail msn.com account

I have a Hotmail live.com account

I have a yahoo that I never use and it just collects hundreds of junk email a week.  I also have a gmail account and I hate it, in fact I don't use it at all..

[cktc]

Two random issues this week.

1) I can't access gmail with Chrome.

2) Google is defaulting to Italian.


Anyone else having these issues