Gmail

[abbby]

Had a shock when I saw the Promotions folder and saw some important mails then went straight to Promotions folder in gmail.

How can we avoid important mails from being thrown into promotions folder?

[smoulder]

There are actually no folders but labels in Gmail.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Isn't the term folder and labels the same in actual usage? Isn't it just bits added to files to lump them on a screen view when actually the individual files are all over the place on the storage platform? Could call them jars but I thinks another coding platforms already uses that term. Or am I missing something?

[Lisafuller]

You could flag certain senders as not spam or go through the promotion folder and identify the important letters and flag those. The system will learn.

[smoulder]

Isn't the term folder and labels the same in actual usage? Isn't it just bits added to files to lump them on a screen view when actually the individual files are all over the place on the storage platform? Could call them jars but I thinks another coding platforms already uses that term. Or am I missing something?

That's true. It's more of a hierarchy thing. And the way they've done "labels" in gmail can sometimes be a bit clunky like different experiences across different clients. The other one is that you can't just right click on a "folder" (label) and say "empty folder". Finding and mass deleting old emails is another big headache but that's another story.