Quoting Alex Botero-Lowry (2012-02-08 08:24:51)
>    I'm using a similar setup.  An inconvenience with the setup is that I have
>    various filters in gmail that filter, e.g., mailing list mails by skipping
>    the gmail inbox and applying specific tags. ... 
>    Ideally, I'd like a view in notmuch that shows the same messages as the
>    gmail inbox.  Is there a way to accomplish this?
>    - b

You could sync every subfolder *but* "All Mail" instead of just this folder:
Gmail tags are available as imap folders. You can then tune your tagging filters
to sort by folder: queries.
HTH,
/p