Short Gmail Labels

Shorten your Gmail labels so parent labels are not displayed.

What is Short Gmail Labels?

Short Gmail Labels is a Chrome extension designed to enhance Gmail user experience. This handy tool shortens your Gmail labels by removing parent labels to reduce clutter and provide a cleaner, more succinct display. It's perfect for those who use nested labels and want to focus on the specific child label. Enjoy an improved email organization with Short Gmail Labels.

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Extension stats

By: https://mattw.life

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.73 (22)

Version: 1.0.3 (Last updated: 2024-03-09)

Creation date: 2018-01-24

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

scripting

Host permissions:

*://mail.google.com/*

Size: 19.81K

Email: he*****@mattw.life

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 24718 ▼ 212

Other rankings

#12719 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 13 #10 in label keyword 17 ▲ 1 #68 in gmail keyword 70 ▲ 38 #77 in child keyword 4

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Nesting gmail labels results in an unnecessarily long display that includes both parent and child labels. This will trim down the label names so you only see the child.

User reviews

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Pros

Simplifies long Gmail labels, making them concise and visually cleaner.
Efficiently handles nested labels, enhancing organization for power users.
Reliable and has been used successfully by many for years.
Greatly reduces visual clutter in Gmail, improving inbox navigation.
Considered an essential tool for Gmail users, often recommended.

Cons

Inconsistent functionality in displaying shortened labels for some users.
Some users experience issues with the extension being grayed out or unable to access options.
Recent bugs causing visual errors have been reported.
Not all features function as expected for some users with complex label structures.

Most mentioned

Works perfectly for simplifying labels.
Has issues for some users with functionality and display.
Highly recommended for Gmail power users.

Recent reviews

It does one thing PERFECTLY, and solves a very irritating problem. Thanks!

Martin Guirey, 2024-11-02

NESTED LABELS ESSENTIAL for any GMAIL power user! VISUAL CLUTTER & DISTRACTION REMOVER greatly speeding up your at-a-glance INBOX filtration. Power users understand the huge organizational secret of PARENT FOLDERS with many subfolders inside them. Example: [ ACCOUNTS ] —— is the top-level folder for all the web-accounts you create; inside are: ---- [ AMAZON ] ---- [ APPLE ] ---- [ BANK of AMERICA ] ---- [ LINKEDIN ] ---- [ PAYPAL ] ---- [ SSA.gov ] ---- [ YOUTUBE ] . . . ---- [ REPLIES ] Without using "SHORT LABELS", if you get a reply notification for a Youtube video you commented on, that [ LABEL ] would display in your inbox as: [ ACCOUNTS / YOUTUBE / REPLIES ] (very long!) Using "SHORT LABELS" extension, it would display cleanly as simply [REPLIES ] Major shoutout to dev "Matt" -- it has always been flawless. I've used it for over 10 years and it's one of the first extensions I install on a new browser.