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[mizkit]

I stayed very busy today, and yet managed to not actually do the one thing I really should have, which is the grant. I am intimidated by the grant. There’s no reason to be, particularly since Dad’s done most of the heavy lifting on it. But it intimidates me anyway, and so I did ALL KINDS of other work in order to avoid the grant. I cleaned the

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[rfrancis]

I'm not sure I see your distinction in regards to gmail. Splain. :)

[mizkit]

The only place there is to store email is in the inbox. You can filter it by whatever means you desire within the inbox, sure, but I can't move, say, all my Chance material into its own folder so it's not actually cluttering up the inbox itself.

Or at least if I can, I don't know how.

[rfrancis]

Well, if you label it with Chance or whatever, then archive it, it's no longer in the inbox, right? It's still in All mail, but, well, hence the name. :)

You can even automate that (where appropriate, like I do it with a mailing list or two) by having the automatic filter both label it and "skip the inbox."

Or am I still not getting it?

[mizkit]

...no, I've just never understood how the archive box works so I've never used it. I gather, because you've made me try it, that there's no actual "archives" to go look in, but instead I pull up the label I'm using and voila, it filters only those files I've so labeled. Which, ok, is basically what I want it to do. I just didn't understand.

Except what happens if you skip the inbox? Do you get any kind of notification that there are new messages piling up in your archives somewhere?

[rfrancis]

Yeah, you get the same boldface unread number next to labels that you get next to inbox.

Yes, all "archive" does is remove something from the inbox, period. You can legitimately think of "inbox" as just a special label. When you're on the default inbox view, you're seeing everything labeled inbox. When you archive, it removes the inbox label. The message is still there and still has any other label, just not inbox.

Hope that helps.

[mizkit]

It's extremely helpful, in fact. Thank you.