Gmail – Search Labels Based on Stemming

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Say I have the label Home/Family/Kids and Home/Family, is there any search expression that can match both of these with a single term? For example, I want to use a search query like label:Home/Family*.

Note that using Home/Family/Kids OR Home/Family is not a good solution since I have many labels and this wouldn't be practical.

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Using the complex OR is annoying, but being the only workaround I suggest you use it with the combination of the Quick Links Lab feature.

Quick Links by Dan P

Adds a box to the left column that gives you 1-click access to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. You can use it for saving frequent searches, important individual messages, and more.more.

You will be able to save the complex searches and recall them when needed.

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There doesn't seem to be a way to do this currently.

The best places to look for this feature to be implemented is one of the following:

An official Gmail setting accessible via the settings page.
A Gmail labs feature.
A 3rd party Gmail gadget which can be added via the "Add any gadget by URL" Gmail lab.
A Greasemonkey scirpt.

The first two would require Google to implement the feature, which you could suggest here for it to be implemented in the official version, or you could suggest it here for it to be implemented as a lab. The last two could be implemented by anyone with the knowhow.

I couldn't find anything that is already implemented by doing a simple Google search.

Gmail – Create Dynamic Gmail Labels From the Email’s Subject

I've never run across a way to create labels like you asked, but you can use gmail's search to do the same thing. For example, you can search for:

subject:Monkeys

Which will return all emails with Monkeys in the subject. You can also set up bookmarks for common searches.

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