Gmail Adds Colored Labels
Looking through my email, I noticed that my labels had a background color. A quick look at the ‘Labels’ tab showed small boxes on the right that lets users choose a color for whatever labels they had.
![[Gmail Colored Labels]](http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/gmaillabel_colors.png)
This is actually useful as you can tell right away what the email is about from the color of the label.
Are you using colored labels too?
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December 5th, 2007 00:35
huh? I don’t see that option on mine, maybe it’s being rolled out over time
December 5th, 2007 06:00
Same here , i havent seen that option too.
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December 5th, 2007 08:00
I think you guys are right. It’s probably still being rolled out for others
December 5th, 2007 12:18
I saw this today and love it, love it, love it!
This really helps identify messages quickly that I leave in my inbox until I can act on them.
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December 5th, 2007 17:15
@Mark:
This has turned out to be a fantastic feature for me. Now I just need to make up my mind whether I want Google to give me a PR6 or add folders to Gmail … hmm probably both
December 5th, 2007 22:07
I too can’t see the colour boxes.
Please post a screenshot BEFORE opening the colourchoisebox.
thanks
alex
December 6th, 2007 02:12
@Alex:
If the colored labels have been enabled for your account you will see it on the ledt side. It should be part of the section ‘Labels’ if you have any defined.
December 6th, 2007 04:35
Can’t see anything up to now.
I’ll wait.
Thanks anyway.
ciao
alex
December 6th, 2007 09:10
I wish I had read the comments before spending 5 frustrating minutes to get the labels thing down. *rolling eyes* Thanks for the heads up in any event Brown!
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December 6th, 2007 12:47
Definitely a good feature and now with AIM integration, its getting better.
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December 6th, 2007 14:50
@Bush:
Haha 5 minutes? You could have spent that time on some quality time wasters buddy
@Nirmal:
I agree buddy.
December 6th, 2007 23:17
@Brown - I’ll try to not make the same mistake again. (#);)
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December 7th, 2007 01:19
This is cool. At least we’ll get to see more colors in Gmail… Those blue and green colors had started getting freaky now
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December 7th, 2007 03:31
@Bush:
Lol
@Haris:
Haha I know what you mean
December 8th, 2007 04:57
I have long used that Greasemonkey script that offered this and I definitely welcome a even better integration right within Gmail. Looks like they are going to add the Folders4Gmail GM script functionality or some kind of drag and drop as in GReader. Gmail is getting very hard to ignore by the Yahoo users.
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December 8th, 2007 11:47
@K:
I haven’t used my Yahoo mail account in years
December 8th, 2007 16:25
Couldn’t see the color option. But I could see the option label in the left side.
December 9th, 2007 10:56
@David:
This means that Google hasn’t rolled out the feature for everyone. They’re probably making it available to different zones by batches
December 9th, 2007 18:49
I noticed that coloured labels appeared on my account a few days ago, but not had chance to play with it yet, but it sounds like it should prove pretty useful.
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December 9th, 2007 19:38
@Zath:
I love the colored labels. All I need now are folders hehe