Need feedback from Gmail users: How to label?

September 20 2009, 4:35pm

When we connect OtherInbox to a Gmail account, we automatically find messages that aren't from real people and organize them inside of your Gmail account by labeling them OtherInbox and removing them from the Inbox by Archiving them. We synchronize the messages with your OtherInbox account and send you a daily digest so you don't miss anything important.  At first we were going to give every Merchant its own label, similar to how we do it inside of OtherInbox. But we quickly realized that Gmail isn't designed to have hundreds of labels and that would get unmanageable with more than a handful of Merchants.When we implemented the Automatic Organizer for Yahoo! Mail we were faced with a similar challenge because Yahoo! Mail also wasn't designed for hundreds of folders. Instead of making a single OtherInbox folder, we assigned each Merchant a Category and created a folder for each Category. So Yahoo! Mail users with the OtherInbox Automatic Organizer get a handful of folders such as: Yahoo! Mail uses seem to like this setup a lot so we're wondering if we should make Gmail work the same way. Instead of one OtherInbox label, we would have the same labels that we show as folders in Yahoo! Mail. What do you think? Please leave your feedback in the comments below.