Reto Meier

I prefer to drag the labels to the message rather than vice-versa. - Reto Meier

Jerome: any good links of good labels methodologies? I've tried it but it is hit or miss for me, really never got it part of my routine. - Lou Paglia

No good links, most popular methodologies to "get things done" with Gmail are time-waster. - Jérôme Flipo

But here how I process my emails, using many keyboard shorcuts: 1) I always keep my inbox empty, by archiving every email (I never delete) with the "e" shortcut. 2) I label almost every message with broad categories before archiving them, either manually with the "l" shortcut or with filters: - Jérôme Flipo

for instance: from:({friendfeed.com yelp.com twitter.com linkedin facebookmail}) > label: "networking" - Jérôme Flipo

One problem is that only ingoing emails are filtered. - Jérôme Flipo

Here are some of my most used labels: account (for web services registration, password regeneration...), bank, bills, blog, networking, business (career), work (professional emails), subscription (X subscribed to you), friends, ideas (stuff that deserve further thoughts), vanity (google alerts), school... plus some contextual labels mainly for location (canada, london...) - Jérôme Flipo

thanks Jerome - Lou Paglia

Half my emails have more than one labels: linkedin messages have both networking and business, class projects for London University have "school" and "london", etc. - Jérôme Flipo

I have temporary labels for short terms projects. To get things done, I use the starring system (with the lab feature). Note that starred emails can be retrieve with specific operators: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008... - Jérôme Flipo

To benefit from the power of labels, use the Quick Links feature in Labs. For instance, you can access all your high priority emails for your family with a quick link for http://mail.google.com/mail... - Jérôme Flipo

Thus, you can easily create nested folders with quick links (tasks for school in london = has:yellow-star AND l:school AND l:london). That decreases significantly the need for new folders. Finally, to go fast to your Quick Links, enable the "go to label" shortcut in labs (press g + l). - Jérôme Flipo

Also, since some filters make some emails skip the inbox, I often check them with a quick link for is:unread. I also use the "multiple inbox" Labs feature to get an hierarchical overview of my upcoming tasks: one for "has:red-star" another for "has:yellow-star". - Jérôme Flipo

I use labels for things that I wouldn't easily be able to search for. 'registration' is all the web site account registration emails, 'contact' is for people's addresses and phone numbers, 'misdirected' is for things that should've gone to someone else. Very few of my emails get labels, because I am able to search for most emails. - Amit Patel

By the end of the year there'll be >20 handsets to choose. The only thing to consider is *which* Android phone you'll want :) - Reto Meier

Yeah, I think that might be the problem! I guess cost will help me whittle it down though... :-) - Tony Ruscoe

As a personal developer writing code for myself and a few others, I wish I could have an easy way to target both Android and iPhone. Any recommendations? - Daniel Dulitz