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Label ordering trick for Gmail

Posted in Tech by Derek at 3:35 pm
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By default, Gmail automatically orders your labels alphabetically. For those that want their labels organized their way, use the following trick:

  • Log into your Gmail account and click on ‘edit labels’ at the bottom of your labels list.
  • Add spaces before each label to control the list order. e.g. ( underscores represent spaces)

    _ _ _ Friends
    _ _ Work
    _ Girlfriend
    Other

    Gmail will automatically remove the spaces once you click save. Your new labels list will read:

    Friends
    Work
    Girlfriend
    Other

    • The hint was brought to my attention thanks to Caleb over on the Gmail-Generation Google Group.

    3 Responses to “Label ordering trick for Gmail”

    1. Tha Renoiser says:
      5/9/2005 at 4:02 pm

      Nice :D
      thanks Caleb (Y)

    2. William says:
      5/9/2005 at 9:58 pm

      Great tip!

    3. hessam says:
      5/10/2005 at 1:33 am

      sweet tip! thanks!

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