Nice idea, but I have a couple problems with it.
1. What if I want more than one rule to get the same Label?
ie: if I get emails from
big@brother.com and
little@sister.com, and want them BOTH flagged as Family. If I add two rules for "Family" I get two separate labels, not one "Family" label that will include both (I could manually drop each message onto the Family label, but that defeats the purpose of having rules.
2. It is not obvious how to manually set the label (I found that dragging onto the label worked, but I have a LOT of folders so always have to scroll the folders list down to see the labels. A dropdown menu added to the toolbar to select a label would be nice.
3. If I have been in one of the label views, and return to the Inbox, if I delete the label from a message, the message disappears. If I delete a label when I haven't been into the label views (just regular inbox) then message stays as it should (just the label is dropped)
4. When I remove a label from a message by clicking it then later decide it should have had that label and add it back on by dropping the message onto the label, the message will not show up when I click the label under the folders. (Once label removed it will never show up in the search for that label even if the label is added back on.)