Gmail Tips and Tricks – Gmail Labels vs Folders
What is the difference between email folders and Gmail Labels?
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| Gmail Labels | Folders |
| You can apply any number of Labels to 1 single message | 1 email can be sent to only one folder or you can only copy emails to multiple folder |
| Gmail uses conversation and one label can track all the conversation | NA |
| A conversation can have email from Sent or Draft or Inbox or Archive. Label can pull all that when you click on it | You will have to remember where every related message is |
| You have the option of searching the conversation by Label | This may not be the same with Folders |
| You can add more labels later | You have to copy the emails to more folders |
| You can delete or remove the label applied to an email by one click | You cannot do it easily |
So these are only the theory of the difference between Labels and Folders. If you start using Gmail labels you will see more differences.
My opinion is Labels are the best.
If you have any questions or suggestions please post a comment.
Dave 
Categories: Gmail Tags: Folders, Gmail, Gmail Labels, Gmail Tips
Gmail Tips and Tricks – Combining Gmail Filters
Gmail�s greatest strength is its filter options. This is far more better than any other email service providers like Yahoo and MSN.
- You can create UNLIMITED number of Gmail filters
- But when you create a forward filter you cannot create more than 20 forward filters
What is forward filter?
When you create a filter that sets few emails to be forwarded to a specific ID, these filters are called forward filters and Gmail only allows 20 forward filters
What if you want to add more forward filters?
You can use the combining forward filter options
If you want to forward 2 different senders to a same email ID, you can combine them, the steps are given below
- Login to Gmail
- Click create new filter menu which appears next to search button on top
- You will get the filter options as seen below
- In the From field of the options, enter the sender�s email addresses that you want to forward to any address
- For example, If you want blogpostdemo@gmail.com and blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com to be forwarded to another ID, enter� blogpostdemo@gmail.com and blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com in the from filed as shown below
- You should enter the email addresses in a bracket or parenthesis () and you should mention OR between both the email addresses
- (blogpostdemo@gmail.com OR blogpostdemo+test@gmail.com)
- You can enter more than 2 email addresses in the From field
- Click Next step
- Choose the Forward button
- Enter the email ID that you want to forward emails to
- And Click Create Filter to create a new filter
- So this way you can combine 2 or more filters into 1
- This is applicable to all the fields, you can mention OR and create filters to combine two filters
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