I switched to gmail last fall when my Yahoo! account was acting up. I wasn’t getting all of my messages, and multiple emails to Yahoo! support didn’t get me any where. They kept saying there wasn’t a problem. But, since I know there was, I jumped ship.
Since I love just about everything about Google, I thought I’d give Gmail a shot. I created an account and sent out the mass email to everyone letting them know my email had changed. What a pain that is.
Almost from the beginning, I sensed that Gmail wasn’t that great. I couldn’t figure out how to organize my messages into folders. Then I realized that folders didn’t exist, and I had a small panic attack. I live for organizaing my documents, emails, everything into folders. I have a system, and it works quite well for me. So this notion of having to use labels with all of your messages still staying in your inbox is completely contrary to how I operate. Massive inboxes scare me and make me feel unorganized.
I mentioned this to a colleague a few weeks ago, and she said something about being able to create a label and then archive it so you can keep your inbox manageable. What? That sounds like an awful lot of work when I really just want to drag and drop my messages into a stupid folder!
I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to change my email address AGAIN. But this out-of-control inbox is starting to really irritate me. And, I can’t seem to find messages that well with their supposed state-of-the-art email search.
So frustrating.
1 response so far ↓
rkokasih // February 27, 2009 at 1:04 am |
hi,
you could use POP3 from gmail to get your organized inbox again in Outlook.
I had almost the same story with you. but now, I have a nice inbox organized in my Outlook 2007!! although my colleagues keep telling me that gmail is better, but I know, gmail is not as powerfull as Outlook yet.
and, because you posted this a long time ago. You should have a solution by now, could you share to me??