Gmail Labs – Send and Archive

Yet another reason why I love Gmail.  If you’ve never discovered Gmail Labs, there are a lot of cool things in there.  The latest one that I’ve discovered (via the Mashable website) is the Send and Archive feature.  I was peaking over the shoulder of one of my co-workers and saw that the number of un-read message in his inbox was in the 4 digit range.  I was shocked.  I usually don’t like to have any unread message.  That aside, I’m always striving for inbox=0, meaning nothing in my inbox.  With other email services, you are afraid to delete messages.  With Gmail, you are given the luxury of archiving messages.  The Send and Archive feature is just another step in heading towards inbox=0.  When I send a message, I always want to archive that thread.  Now it does it for me automatically.  Okay, the next step for me… better labels so I can really archive everything in my inbox.