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Gmail colours: Is this really news?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

I know that pretty much anything Google does is worthy of comment — and not just a little comment, but a ton of comment — but isn’t all the hubbub about coloured Gmail tags just a little over the top? I mean, I’m a big fan of Google and of Gmail% ... Continue reading »

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  • MG Siegler

    1 year ago

    Not only am I excited, I LOVE this update, much more so than the other recent Gmail updates. As my inbox gets more and more crowded I found myself wanting more than just the star to differentiate between things and the plain labels all seemed to blend together - this is a great solution because Google gives you the option of using both the loud background color labels and the more subtle text color labels.

    I know a lot of these small Google updates get a ton of hype only to never be talked about 2 days later, but I really do love this one.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    MG, I think you may actually need professional help :-)
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  • MG Siegler

    1 year ago

    Ha ha, I don't doubt it.
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  • fred

    1 year ago

    Well, my post wasn't really a "me too", but I used the gmail labels metaphor to guide designers and developers as to how visual cues can help make sense of in a web application. The feature itself is quite small (heck, it's even the title of my post), but it's definitely not earth shattering - so in that sense, I agree with you.

    PS: if you could change the spelling of my last name to Oliveira, I'd appreciate it (it confuses Google, because a lot of people do it) :-)
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Damn -- sorry about the misspelling, Fred. I know I hate it when
    people do that to me too. I will change it right away.

    As for your post, I think your points about the benefits of colours
    make total sense. I think it's a useful feature.

    I guess I just found the Techmeme cluster about it a little comical, that's all.
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  • fred

    1 year ago

    No problem about the spelling, Mathew :-) Thanks!
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  • Alex Beamish

    1 year ago

    I noticed it this morning. It smells to me like a solution looking for a problem.

    I'd be much more interested in a way to group folders together (as Google Reader does) so that I don't have to scroll or page down to see all of my 80+ folders.
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  • MG Siegler

    1 year ago

    Alex - if you read Google's official post, it sounds like they are working on something just like what you are suggesting.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Me too, Alex. There was a hint at the bottom of the Google post that
    they're thinking about folders apparently -- or at least want us to
    think that they are :-)
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  • Frederic

    1 year ago

    Guilty as charged - though I thought the excitement was more about the "we might do something with folders" announcement at the end of the post than the colors.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Yeah, just wait till that actually happens -- then you'll see a real
    blog storm on Techmeme :-)
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