I note you also fail to provide an example where your folders would be useful.
what *do* *you* use a hierachy for in emails?
(i don’t use one, so don’t know an example situation where it would be useful)

holding ctrl down creates duplicates of a message - which is hardly the same thing

ps : that’s a stupid way to try to use tags

TechCrunch posted an article about the interface overhaul over at Google Documents, welcoming the introduction of ‘folders’. In this article, Duncan Riley, talks about how it’s great that Google is finally embracing folders and wonder…

BTW, there is a very simple way to put a message in multiple folders: in Outlook when you drag a message to a folder, press Ctrl and it will be copied. So you can put a copy in each “category”. Because of disk space, it would be nicer if this would only create a link to the message, which would only be saved into one of the folders (links are a 35-40 years old invention), but space should not matter on gmail anyway.

my example for labels : email to Gran about her birthday, email to Dad about his birthday
you can see your emails about birthdays or all your emails to Gran, etc

Re: Folders in Gmail
only if they don’t take away labels

How about if Gmail adds the option to create a hierarchy of folders under “All Mail”, which are independent of labels. Each user could then use either labels or folders (or both), according to personal preference. Also, add drag and drop from Inbox to any folder, which is the same as pressing the Archive button to send to All Mail.

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I can’t see that Gmail would stop the option to tag, but I would find it useful to be able to put things in folders too.

That’s why I like Thunderbird - I can have folders, but I can also have virtual folders - which are rather like tags, as something can be in many folders at the same time - but, I can also have the equivalent of Misc - which I can only create in Gmail by actively tagging things - whereas with Thunderbird, once something is in a folder, I can just see the remainder in the inbox.

For me, IF Gmail were to introduce an easy way to tag things that had no other tag automatically (if you want it), then it would be useful. Alternatively, if it had folders, then I could see what’s not in a particular category & find it quickly.

Yes, tagging is useful - most of the time, but there are things that it doesn’t quite work for (especially when you’re trying to set up filters to auto-tag/ auto archive things), and then I’d like something that addresses that problem.

- In the default view, just drag a doc into as many folders as you want (one at a time) and it’ll be in all of them.
- In folder views, dragging a document moves it OUT of that folder and into another one. If you want to add it to an *additional* folder, click the check box next to it, then select a folder from the Add to Folder drop-down box.

So it’s basically the best of all worlds I’d think :-). People who love drag-and-drop can enjoy that, folks who are more comfortable with “folders” are happy, and tag-lovers can basically treat the folders as tags or labels and add as many per doc as they like.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but am not on the Docs team… just a very enthusiastic user of the product

Folders in Gmail will give an opportunity to add my documents in an orderly manner and not piled up in one window. It will be great to tag easily, by just typing a tag in the “tag” area of message and not through drop down menu. It sickens me to use tags the way Google has implement it now, what were they thinking. Folders and Tags are essentially two different things in my mind and one complements each other and not other way around.

Welcome to 1998, GMail.