Chances are your computer’s desktop and other folders aren’t cluttered because you like it that way, but because you don’t want to spend time organising every file that hits your hard drive. Automate your file organisation and stay clutter-free without the effort.
Ed. Note: If you love Gmail but just can’t shake a longing for folder-style organisation this clever hack will help you create pseudo-folders.
Firefox: If you hate having to search through your folders every time you change the type of file or directory you’re saving to—and we certainly do!—Save File To helps you make custom context menus for file saving bliss.
The control and shift keys have long been the imprecise means of selecting multiple items on a Windows system. The How-To Geek’s blog away from Lifehacker reminds us that, as with Vista, Windows 7 users can use check boxes instead.
Windows: Quick access to key folders on your system can be a big time saver. MedalFolders puts all your favourite locations two clicks away in the system tray.
Windows only: Creating a folder here and there one is all most of us usually need in a day. What if you need to create hundreds of folders? New Folder Wizard makes it a snap.
Google’s data-crunching ways found that the majority of Gmail users aren’t actually using the webmail service’s labels. Starting today, those label names get higher placement, and drag-and-drop labelling aims to make Gmail’s labels more like familiar email folders.
Windows: You have a bunch of sub-directories that you’d like to consolidate into one but don’t want to do the mouse work or write a batch script. Suction will help you condense your directories.
Reader Samir writes in with an excellent tip—Windows 7 finally includes the ability to add new folders from the keyboard with a shortcut key combination.
Today Gmail will begin rolling out a new feature to improve your email labelling workflow and mitigate folder-vs.-label confusion with two new drop-down menus: Move to and Labels. Even better: Keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete are baked in. We’re not seeing the updates in our accounts yet, but the new features are pretty simple. If you want to label an email, just click the Labels drop-down or hit ‘L’ on your keyboard and start typing; Gmail will autocomplete the label as you type. The Move to menu works the same but uses ‘V’ as the quick keyboard shortcut. When you apply a new label via the Move to menu, Gmail will apply the new label and automatically archive the email—mimicking folder behaviour while still sticking with Gmail’s label structure. You’ve been able to access Gmail’s More actions menu for quite some time using the period (‘.’) shortcut, but the label and move to shortcuts are a godsend for keyboard lovers and folder lovers alike. The Better Gmail extension has always included the very cool Gmail Macros script, which itself added new labels by pressing ‘L’ and then autocompleting labels, so this functionality will be easy to adopt for Gmail Macros users. (Though autocomplete for navigating to a new label from the keyboard with the ‘G’ shortcut would be nice, Google.) Is your account enabled yet? Let’s hear how you like the changes in the comments.
New ways to label with “Move to” and auto-complete [Official Gmail Blog]
