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Gmail Labels Don't Search Well

by er4hn on 10/27/24, 4:57 AM with 1 comments

• by ggm on 10/27/24, 5:13 AM

  Why google don't implement basic boolean operator logic is beyond me. MH has -lbrace and -rbrace so you can wrap -and -or and -not up properly. Once learned, you can ask any question.

  With google+ they had the same problem. How to say, @friends not @josh so you can do a secret birthday party for josh. The primitives here are simple. I asked them several times why they didn't do things like this and they said "to hard to explain to ordinary users" which frankly I thought was a cop out. I AM an ordinary user.