In previous versions of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, you could use labels to create colored folders. This feature has been modified for the most recent versions of OS X and labels only color the ...

Google's email service Gmail lets you organize your inbox as much or little as you want. You can let the emails pile up — or you can let them pile up, but in a more orderly fashion. The easiest way to ...

Win/Mac/Linux: Folders and labels in Thunderbird are great for at keeping your mail organized and out of your inbox, but they all look alike. Color Folders is a simple add-on that lets you customize ...

Gmail has a pretty powerful labeling system that makes it really easy to manage your emails. With labels, you can ensure certain emails are tagged with not just a name but also a color. Also, this ...

Brenda Wilson recently switched from Outlook to Gmail. Now she’s “trying to get my head wrapped around the whole ‘label’ thing. When I moved an email to a folder in Outlook. it no longer appeared in ...

To create folders in Gmail, go to the Labels section in Settings. Click on Settings > Labels > Create New Label > Save. Gmail uses labels instead of folders to organize emails, but labels function ...

Mavericks’s Finder tags feature offers a number of benefits over the older file and folder labels, but one of the drawbacks of tags is that items are no longer colored with your preferred tag (nee ...