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Amit Novick

Hi there Felipe! 👋

I may say i believe its a great idea!. I'm going to try it out.

Cool! let me know if there's any issues! be sure to check out the Getting Started guide that I made just for new users like yourself!

If i get this correct, key concept of your develop is to be like the label based organization system in G Mail, am i right?

Absolutely spot-on 👍, I'm impressed that you were able to make the connection between the two programs based on the similarity of the hierarchy concept.

GMail labels can indeed be nested under other existing labels to form a hierarchy similar to Catalog's category hierarchy.

However, as far as I can tell, GMail's labels exist only in GMail (not available in other G-Suite services such as Google Drive). This is a huge limitation 😧. That's even before you realize that Google could drop the entire label system tomorrow despite it being a feature that you rely on every day.

On the other hand, Catalog offers a generalized hierarchy system that you can use not just for your emails, but also for all files on your computer 💪. The code is Open-Source, small, and readable: therefore you are not dependent on a vendor's commercial interests with your valuable data.