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Google Voice Blog: Make and receive calls in Gmail
via googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com
This is awesome! Now I can really save on those cell phone minutes and avoid poor cell phone call quality!!
Nested labels now in Gmail Labs!
I know a lot of people have been waiting for this feature for a long time now, including myself! Now we can all go crazy categorizing our emails and losing track of stuff just like in Outlook. Fortunately, Gmail still has an awesome search capability so even if you bury your emails into nested labels, hopefully you’ll still be able to find them.
New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek
Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:27 PM
Labels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can’t be in several folders at the same time. A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically.
If you think this might be useful to you, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for “Nested Labels,” enable it and click “Save.” You’ll then need to name your label with slashes (/) to make it the child of another. For example, let’s say you wanted to create a simple hierarchy with a “Home” label, and inside it a “Family” and a “Vacation” label. Just create three labels with the following names:
Home
Home/Family
Home/VacationYou can then create “Home/Family/Kids,” “Home/Pets,” etc., to get something like the screenshot on the left. If you had the parent label “Home” before you don’t have to create it from scratch.
You can create complex hierarchies of labels if that’s the way you like to organize your mail, and you can expand/collapse labels to save space. You’ll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it’s bold or not.
Please note that this lab doesn’t play nicely with the “Hide Read Labels” lab. You might not get exactly what you expect if you have both labs enabled; for example, the collapse/expand icons won’t always appear when they should.
New Dev channel version of Google Chrome now with Aero peek for tabs!
I’m glad to see this feature is now available for Google Chrome users! If you’d like to get it, you’ll need to install the dev channel version of Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel
