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Folders4Gmail
You love Gmail, but you miss folders to sort your emails? Organize your labels in a folder-like hierarchy with the Folders4Gmail userscript.
Suppose you have two labels:
MumDad
And you want Mum and Dad to be sub-labels of Family.
All you have to do is:
- Rename your labels
DadtoFamily/DadMumtoFamily/Mum
(useEdit labelsandrename).

Folders4Gmail will now automatically arrange your labels in a folder-like collapsable hierarchy.

Written 2007 by Arend v. Reinersdorff
Your feedback is welcome arend@reinersdorff.de
New in Version 1.36, 17. April 2007
Fix for a minor code change in Gmail.
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Awesome userscript, which I've been using through the Better Gmail2 extension. However, I noticed today that FF3 (under Ubuntu 8.04) was sitting at 35% CPU usage with Gmail open. By disabling everything I isolated it to the Better Gmail2 extension, then enabled each included script one at a time to discover that the source of the increased CPU consumption was Folders4Gmail. I disabled the BG2 extension again and installed F4G directly within Greasemonkey, and the problem persisted. It seems to -only- happen if there are no labels defined, which happened to be the case as I'd just been assigned a new work email account on Gmail. Is anyone else experiencing this? I know it's a pretty unique edge case but should there be some kind of check around the existence of labels? Cheers! |
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this was a wonderful and useful idea. It's the most important mod I have for gmail. And I got so addicted that I built my entire labeling strategy around this. So to help me handle this strategy I crafted a script to enlarge the labels panel, if someone thinks it could help as well this is the link http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/26069
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This is possibly my most useful mod for Gmail (and Gmail IMAP with Thunderbird), certainly with regard to saving screen space, so: Thanks! Feature request: is it possible to display an unread count in the title of the Labels box when it's collapsed entirely? |
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I love this script! Can you add a feature to organize Contacts into folders, too? Please?? |
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Excellent scripts, exactly do what I want. Just one suggestion, could you add to one link below the the link "Edit lables", so that can collapse all or uncollapse all folders. |
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I can't get this to work in Gmail 2... I have tried changing language from UK to US. I have made sure I have most up to date version. Nothing seems to get it to work. If I want folders I have to revert back to old Gmail.
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This should so be a feature in gmail. |
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The previous version of this script allowed you to order your folder using e.g. 'a/ontop' and 'x/attheback', but this doens't seem to work anymore in the new version. Would it be possible to reintroduce that functionality? |
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Excellent. Thanks for this! |
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@Arand: I forgot I had modified the script to use "." as separators and when I upgraded of course my modification was gone. Sorry for the hassle. Working great now :) |
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@Arand, any idea why it is not working for me? Is there a way to debug this? I have many labels and without this plugin using gmail for my work is not nearly as convenient as before. I know I'm using the right version because I see the the comment in the code about April 17th. I'm just asking if there is a way to debug this because I can't figure it out myself. Thanks |
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I found going back to version 1.35 of this script got it working again in opera. Strange stuff. |
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Hi all, I'm still having trouble getting it to work using Opera 9.27
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@Sergut
Unfortunately, this small change was enough to break the script. :-( Also, there's a small change because labels are now real links. |
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Hmm, the fix isn't working for me. I've tried installing it a few times, I'm using the new version since I see the April 17th comments in the source. I've disabled Better Gmail 2 in case its older folders4gmail was causing issues. Am I the only one who can't get it to work? |
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I meant: 'If you could explain what changed, I think some of us would appreciate it'. Sorry. There should a 'preview' button somewhere. O:-) |
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Thank you very much for the quick fix. Good work. If you could explain what change, I think some of use would appreciate it (I would, at least). :-) |
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Not even 12 hrs down! Good work! |
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Thanks for the quick fix! The script is working for me again. |
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Confirmed. No longer working. |
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No joy for me as-of today |
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ditto for me, as of Apr 17 Folders4Gmail stopped working |
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Not working for me either as of this morning. |
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Hello. I have to second Sergut... Everything has been working perfectly since I installed it, but I just opened GMail this morning and it no longer works. Something going on??? |
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It looks like Folders4Gmail does not work as of Apr 17th. Have Gmail people made changes to their code? |
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