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Both folders and labels have benefits—even together. However, the current issue with labels is that they are user-specific. From the Onshape help:
"All labels are user-specific, and no other user sees the labels you apply to documents and publications, regardless of permissions."
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/labels.htm
Because of this, it dramatically reduces the utility of labels currently.
Right, that's why I completely gave up on making a library of labels.
It doesn't share with others, and having parts marked as library or whatever just gives a short list when others add to the library. Having a library folder made more sense since everyone always sees the same items and hierarchy.
Having the ability to have company wide labels would be a huge improvement and would help with onboarding. They would still have a full library of folders and such, but the most common items would have a label to jump directly to them.
I only label a couple odd things, like drawing blocks or something I search a lot that is deep into a folder chain. I just checked, looks like I only have 3 labels total, I think I only use 1 of those commonly