I have dozens of labels, and know the too-many-emails problem has just moved one level up: too many labels, don’t remember why I’ve created them and what their intended use was. As a result, I end up losing a lot of time just figuring out where things are in my mailbox…

So being able to sort them arbitrarily could be handy here… I did a bit of research online and it looks like this is not possible. Mmmm funny init? Insurmountable technical difficulty? Trivial interaction-design mistake? Who knows. So it looks like as the only workaround to manage gmail labels is to prefix them using alphabetical characters. As simple as that.

By the way, the ‘alphabetical’ ordering used by gmail is not what you might be used to, but the one below:

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FUSE stands for Filesystem in USErland, and it provides a generic interface that lets the operating system see virtually anything as a filesystem. Historically, adding new filesystem recognition to an operating system has meant modifying the kernel for each new FS. FUSE, though, provides a single interface that filesystem modules use to interface with the OS. Best of all, anything that provides the correct interface can be interpreted as a filesystem. One enterprising Python programmer even developed a script to let users mount their GMail accounts and use the extra space in their accounts to save files.