Gmail Label Functionality in Outlook and Windows 10
 

I love Gmail conversation view and labels. As a conversation progresses, I see no reason to have to add each new response to a folder, etc.

I also like that I don't need to pigeon-hole my emails - many get multiple labels and then archived, so my inbox is clear but I never need to guess where the email is located.

My office uses Outlook 2010 (or OWA). Any way to achieve similar results?

Connected - does anyone know if there's such a way of using labels (or similar) for saving files, either in Windows 10, OneDrive, or Google Drive? I hate having to guess which folder a file is saved in when it can easily belong in multiple, and feel stupid copying it to save in each place

If you connect your Gmail account to Outlook as an IMAP account, your labels should show up as folders in your Outlook mailbox. Not sure how to get multiple labels on a single email though.

You might take a look at Gmelius
https://gmelius.com/#features

Thanks for both suggestions, but neither seem to solve my issue

Can't set up my personal Gmail on the work Outlook

This seems to improve Gmail itself - I'm trying to bring Gmail functionality to Outlook (and Windows 10)

Oh, I understand now. Well, you can assign Categories to emails in Outlook, and even implement rules to automatically assign incoming/outgoing mail to certain categories. Categories are like labels in this regard, though I think Outlook has a limit of around 5-10 categories it can support (they are colors).

Do you know if Outlook supports conversation view the way Gmail does?

It does.
https://support.office.com/en-us/art...a-6fce272fe569

OK, so trying this again. I've gotten conversation view on so I'm set with that but still struggling with labels.

Categories isn't an option as you can't set "sub-categories" and there's a limit on categories.

I don't want to move emails to folders as multiple folders/labels can apply to one email.

Has anyone achieved label-like functionality with Outlook 2013 (or Outlook online, not OWA)?

My understanding is this simply isn't possible. Google creates a folder in Outlook for every label. If you assign multiple labels to a message, Outlook downloads multiple copies of that message, one for each folder. And of course, within Outlook, you can only put an item inside a single folder.

This goes straight to the heart of how Outlook and Gmail were designed to operate. Outlook is built on a folder hierarchy, while Gmail is a completely flat structure. They've tried to bridge the gap somewhat (with the labels-folders equivalency), but it's a bit awkward. The long and short of it is you cannot, within Outlook, take Outlook's entire paradigm and replace it with Gmail's.