Google quietly implements Folders in Gmail and Google Docs

For users of Google Gmail and more recently Google Docs one of the key nuisance is the absence of Folders. Google tried to solve this problem early on with their implementation of Labels. However for a Microsoft Windows computing world (which is almost all of us), Labels hardly provide a sense of de-cluttering and hierarchical organization of documents and messages that folks have become used to.

But with the Creation of Collections in Google Docs and the ability to hide documents from the home page, users can now simulate the Folder feature in Google Docs that they are used to in Microsoft Windows platforms. Also, with a new Feature under the Move to Tab, that allows users to move messages to a Label , and thus remove that message from their inbox view, users can now simulate the Folder feature of Microsoft Outlook and other standard email clients in Gmail. The following video demonstrates these features.