Gmail Labels (and pretty darn good UI suggestion)

I saw a very vague reference to this feature segued into as part of an entirely different feature request:

GMAIL LABELS

My use of Digsby for email checking is practically non-existent because ALL my email has been filtered into 5 or 6 labels for organizational purposes.  Digsby tells me I have one new message when in reality I have 15 new messages filtered into 'business', 'family', etc.  From what I understand, the feature itself isn't hard to implement: it's UI considerations that hamper it's inclusion, hence my suggestion:

When a user adds a gmail account have Digsby scan and retrieve the list of labels from which the user can select up to two of them he wants Digsby to monitor in addition to the inbox(system tray consideration).  Then simply have each label listed in the window (sidebar??) similar to how you currently list the different email accounts.  You'd remove the entire email identifier for all email accounts and simply denote them my the service icon immediately followed by the user/account name preceding the '@' symbol. Thus, if username@gmail.com had 2 labels and one username@msn account:

<serviceIcon.gmail>username[inbox]
<serviceIcon.gmail>username[business]
<serviceIcon.gmail>username[family]
<serviceIcon.msn>username

What do you guys think?

I would love this feature. I am the same as you as in I only use labels and very rarely ever have an email come to my default in box.

I removed my gmail account for digsby since it was a waste of space and none functional because of not notifying new labeled mail.

You've got my vote.

Approved on the wishlist: http://digsbies.org/site/node/381

Go vote

Voted, although the idea mentioned on the wishlist has changed somewhat from my suggestion it's far better than nothing, but one change must be made to the wishlist suggestion:

I don't think the spam email should be included in the mail count at all: I have on average 30 to 40 spam messages a day automatically junked.  In a week we're talking hundreds, and I know a lot of people have much more than that.  Imagine checking to see if you have new email and seeing you have 315 new messages when you actually have only 5...including the spam in the mailcount makes the feature practically useless still.

Oh you got my vote too!  I have multiple labels and the inbox only gets a fraction of what I have.  Would really like to be able to see "all mail" label.  That's the one I use the most anyway.

Yeah, my vote, and my contributor-wanna-be =))

http://forum.digsby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=25654#p25654

Last edited by instcode (2009-11-03 02:12:07)

Heeeeh, I even don't need a neat UI for this feature. I just want my unread messages to be shown up in the notification window.

Please please please...

I believe having posted a similar request somewhere else in this forum, and that's why you have my vote as well

Is there any ETA on this feature? It's a real downside of Digsby, should be implemented.