Feature Request: Option to "Quick Create Filters + Labels"

[vtexperts]

The app only works if the user puts in the leg work to set up their filters and labels. For some users, that's not a problem, but for most - I think it might be rather difficult task that requires a lot of effort upfront.

Here's a suggestion: An option to quickly create filters.

I don't think you need to reinvent the wheel, but instead you could utilize existing gmail functionality and walk the user through creating a filter+label very efficiently.

A dropdown button to "Create filter"

As in the screenshot, you could add few "helpers" to make the process very quick.

• read the email header and suggest filters based on from/to/subject/etc.. (95% of the time - that is what filter will be created, so why have user retype it).
• the last option is highlighted text, assuming user wants to filter all "Your Cloudflare" emails - they would have that as an option (so they dont have to copy and then paste it into the filter condition)

On selection, open standard filter UI

Ideally, just pull standard gmail filter UI based on what the user selected in the dropdown. In my example, it's the FROM: email.

(I would recommend hiding some of the filter options as "Search", date, size using simple .css/.js, just to keep the UI clean. (perhaps with option to "Show additional options")).

Create Filter

After clicking the button, it would take user to final step, which is to select folder and any other options for the filter being created. I purposely took out some of the options, just to keep it simple. (this could be optional or configurable in the extension).

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The idea is very simple, you would be utilizing gmail functionality with few minor tweaks to improve user experience. I believe this would be a very powerful feature.

Thanks!

[teresa-ou]

Love this idea! I had been thinking about making "Filter messages like these" more visible and hiding some options in the last step, but wasn't sure how valuable it would be. So it's great to hear your take on making filter creation easier, and that you think it would be helpful to users.