Folders & search

Dustav files mail into your folders — the real Gmail labels you already have, not a parallel system it invented. Every operator card comes with a folder suggestion; accept it and the email is filed in your actual Gmail, where every other app you use sees it too. Filing is reversible, always: it's a label move in your own mailbox, and you can undo it from either side.

The folder book

The Inbox's folder button opens your real folder tree, with a count of what Dustav has read and filed into each. Tap a folder and the list shows its mail — including things filed months ago, which is most of why you'd look. On a phone it's a drawer; on desktop it's a panel that stays open while you move folder to folder.

Your folder structure stays yours to change. Rename or reorganize in Gmail and Dustav follows — it mirrors your labels rather than owning them.

Search — over what's been read

The search bar searches the mail Dustav has read — which, once it's read your backlog, is your working corpus: inbox, filed, archived, all of it. That's the search that answers "find that email from the clay supplier about the June order," because the reading is what makes old mail findable by what it was about, not just what words it contained.

For mail Dustav hasn't read — something older than your chosen backlog depth, or in a skipped category — just ask it: Dustav can search your whole Gmail on request and read what it finds. The search bar is scoped on purpose; the agent is not.

Move, Delete — and Done

Every card carries the three ways an email leaves your attention. Move files it into a folder and Delete trashes it — your Gmail's own primitives, labels and trash, so nothing Dustav tidies is ever out of your reach in Gmail itself. Done is the third one, for people who don't use folders: it settles the card — off Needs you, nothing more asked of you — and the email stays exactly where it was in Gmail. All three undo. Select several conversations to file, archive, or clear them together.