Short Gmail Labels

Shorten your Gmail labels so parent labels are not displayed.

Short Gmail Labels is a Chrome extension designed to streamline your Gmail interface by shortening label names. When you nest Gmail labels, both parent and child labels typically display, leading to cluttered and lengthy label names. This extension removes the display of parent labels, showing only the child label, making your label list concise and easier to navigate.

By trimming unnecessary parent labels, Short Gmail Labels helps you maintain a cleaner and more organized inbox view, improving your email management efficiency without any complex configuration.

By:: https://mattw.life
Users:: 1,000+
Rating:: 4.71
(21)
Version:: 1.0.3 (Last updated: 2024-03-09)
Creation date:: 2018-01-24
Risk:: Moderate risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:: scripting
Host permissions:: *://mail.google.com/*
Size:: 19.81K
Email:: he*****@mattw.life
URLs:: Website
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 16 hours ago

Ranking

# 23,007 ▲ 176

Other rankings

#11744 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 28 #9 in label keyword 18 ▲ 1 #79 in child keyword 9 #86 in gmail keyword 56 ▲ 4

User reviews

Users praise 'Short Gmail Labels' for effectively shortening nested Gmail labels, reducing visual clutter, and improving inbox management. It's considered essential by power users leveraging complex label hierarchies. However, some report inconsistencies in label shortening, occasional display glitches, and issues where the extension is disabled, possibly from conflicts. Feature enhancement requests exist, especially to always display labels when browsing. Overall, it's a highly recommended extension filling a significant Gmail usability gap.

Pros

Effectively simplifies and shortens long nested Gmail labels, improving inbox readability.
Highly valued by Gmail power users who utilize complex nested label systems.
Removes visual clutter and distractions, enhancing email management speed.
Easy to use and reliable, with many users praising its consistent performance over years.
Appreciated for filling a native Gmail feature gap, making it an essential tool for many.

Cons

Inconsistent behavior with some nested labels not shortening correctly, causing frustration for some users.
Occasional display glitches, including improper label text rendering or unwanted artifacts.
Some users experience issues where the extension appears disabled or grayed out, possibly due to conflicts with other extensions.
Requests for additional features, such as always showing labels when browsing emails, which the extension currently lacks.

Recent reviews

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.

Richard Hoefer, 2024-10-31

Does what it says, simply and efficiently. Thanks :)

Nicolas AUZEINE, 2024-03-15

I'm using a nested system of labels, so shortening the label names saves a lot of space in the folder view. I wonder how the other 8B users of Gmail can live without this.

Dávid Bendes, 2024-01-02

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Short Gmail Labels requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Request access to the following domains: google.com

Risk likelihood

Short Gmail Labels is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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