{"id":1236,"date":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/07\/08\/1174\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T22:00:00","slug":"1174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/07\/08\/1174\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail&#8217;s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Rosen at O&#8217;Reilly Broadcast \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/broadcast.oreilly.com\/2009\/07\/gmails-labels-now-more-like-fo.html\">Gmail&#8217;s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The common wisdom is that marking things with tags or labels (so you can later search for them by tag) is better than organizing them hierarchically into folders.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] The problem is that people don&#8217;t seem to &#8222;get&#8220; labels or grasp what the inherent advantage is in not organizing things into folders. They WANT folders.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] Labels <em>are<\/em> much more flexible for organization and searching. It&#8217;s a pity Google felt they needed to take a step backwards by saying &#8222;yeah, OK, these can be like folders, too, whatever.&#8220; This is a failure resulting not from the feature&#8217;s original design but from Google&#8217;s inability to promote it and educate users about it.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Rosen at O&#8217;Reilly Broadcast \u2013 Gmail&#8217;s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?: &#8222;The common wisdom is that marking things with tags or labels (so you can later search for them by tag) is better than organizing them hierarchically into folders. [\u2026] The problem is that people don&#8217;t seem to &#8222;get&#8220; labels or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}