Is there a way to reorder labels in Gmail? There is one specific label I need to access more than the others and I would like it at the top.
I'm using Airmail 2 as my local IMAP client connected to my email running on Google Apps for Work.
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Sign up to join this communityIs there a way to reorder labels in Gmail? There is one specific label I need to access more than the others and I would like it at the top.
I'm using Airmail 2 as my local IMAP client connected to my email running on Google Apps for Work.
Gmail doesn't provide a way to reorder labels. They are listed in strictly alphabetical order.
What I have done is put a relatively unobtrusive punctuation character in the front of the label. For example:
_followup
!important
+client
That way they flow to the top. You can do a similar thing to drop labels to the bottom, all depending on whether the character is sorted before or after letters.
For symbols that sort after letters, {|}~
, (or between upper- and lower-case, [\]^_
and ` ), see
ASCII on wikipedia. All the rest will sort before, matching the table ordering. This underlying bit representation gives an index number, and therefore ordering, "lexicographic", to each character.
[\]^_`
will be between upper and lower case, while others will sort after: {|}~
. All the rest will sort before, matching the table ordering