Colored Labels in Gmail
Gmail December 3rd, 2007 - By Haochi
Several Gmail users reported on the Google Blogoscoped forum that they have spotted a new feature that allows users to pick colors for their labels, like what Google Calendar has for highlighting events.
And you can remove labels from an email that you are viewing.
Google is probably experimenting with this feature because I don’t have it in my account yet. Or perhaps, they are rolling it out to small group of users one at a time, like Philipp said.
They also said that Gmail got faster. O RLY? :)
UPDATE: Okay, it’s now official, and everyone should have it now. Have some labeling fun. :)
[screenshots by Bas Quentin, from Google Blogoscoped]
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I have this feature. I thought it was my better Gmail extension, but I guess not. It’s really cool! Love it!
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 pm
It looks like they’ve changed some fonts as well. It looks different.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I think it would be much more useful to label contacts, not only messages. Labelling all family-related, work-related, etc-related contacts would mark all work related mail with one label & color. Contact groups are not that useful - they can’t be used with filtering.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I don’t understand why the devil they don’t put up the new features right away on Google Apps. I have Gmail installed on my domain, but I still don’t see ‘em.
Doesn’t quite make sense to ignore the people who are already doing beta testing.