Google Enhances Gmail Labeling With Drag And Drop Feature, Retires Right-Side Labels

Gmail is constantly adding features to help people become more organized. Today, Google has tweaked
its Labels feature to add more functionality to the labels toolkit,
helping users implement labels in a more organized way. Your labels will
now be located in a new area on your Gmail interface, above your chat
list and grouped together with Inbox, Drafts, Chats and other system
labels. You can also now control which labels you’d like to show on your
UI and you can hide the rest under a “more” tab. Of the more
innovative features that has been added is the ability to drag and drop
messages into labels, just like you can with folders. You can also drag
labels onto messages too. It’s also possible to drag labels into the
“more” menu to hide them, making it easier to change labels than going
to the Settings function. This feature is huge for those people who
complain about Gmail not having some of the drag and drop features of
Outlook. Google says these changes will eliminate the need for
Right-side Labels, which was an experimental Gmail Labs feature.
Apparently, this is the first Labs feature that Google is retiring.