Exploit Auto-Categorization feature
Last year, Gmail was added auto-classification feature email based on various sections, such as advertising, forums, messages updated from new pages or main mail (including mail from friends, relatives, colleagues, offices …). By defaulting this feature, it will run automatically and be pretty accurate, but if you want to customize it, it is still doable.
For example, when you find a letter from a close friend, but it strays into the “Forum” inbox, you can choose that email, drag and then drop it into the inbox entitled “Primary“. Similarly, if the advertising messages happen to reach the “Primary” inbox, you just have to drag and drop it into the “Forum” inbox. After finishing moving, you’ll be asked whether you want to apply the classification like that for future emails or not, select “Yes” so we do not bother to do it again.
Besides, by defaulting, only the current messages in the mailbox “Primary” will be notified through the mobile device (if you are using Gmail app provided by Google, ether iOS or Android). If you want the app to notify all incoming messages, regardless of whatever mailbox classified is, run the app up, go to Settings (gear icon) Notifications All new messages.
Quickly insert canned content into mail
This is a feature of Gmail that allows us to insert a piece of content which has already been prepared to the mail quickly. Canned response is useful when you need to send the same content of letters lots of times, so you will save a lot of time. To activate it, go to Settings Labs card, then turn on Canned Response and do not forget to click “Save changes”.
Now, just draft a new message and click on the small arrow located in the lower right corner of the composing mail window, choose Canned response New Canned response to name and save the contents. In the future use, just go to the menu Canned response and you can see things you have prepared before, if you want to insert a content, you just have to select it.
Archive email
Did you know that the letter which was read, in addition to be erased, you can store (archive) them? This feature is great because you can guarantee that your mailbox is not only always clean but also fully retains important emails, do not worry about when you suddenly need them but they were deleted. To archive messages, all you need to do is select the desired e-mail and click the button Archive as highlighted in the image below. When you want to find them, you may use the Gmail search box.
Also, you can setup in order that email can be automatically archived right after you have replied to a letter. So you will not have to implement it yourself anymore, save time!
To install, go to Settings Send and Archive Show “Send & Archive” button in reply. From now on, whenever you reply, you will see a new button to apply the aforementioned feature.
How to select all email in the inbox at the same time
This trick is tiny but extremely strong, it allows us to select all messages in one inbox with just one mouse click. Maybe you thought that the check mark at the top of the line used to select all email is enough, but in fact it only select the email which is being displayed, while the series below are not. To select all, you must click on the “Select all conversation…”
Did you know that you can read and reply to messages even when you do not have Internet connection? You can use the Chrome browser Gmail Offline Chrome combined with Apps to carry out their actions. All these actions will be put in a queue and as soon as the network is connected again, they will in turn be executed.
Mute a conversation
Tired of tracking of emails not important from your colleges while you are not related to them? No problem, Gmail allows you to turn off the notification of a certain conversation to avoid inconveniences.
In selected conversations, go to More Mute. From now on, you just see emails which are sent to your own or when your address appears in the To: or CC:
Add to-do list
Normally, you use the other apps to create a to-do list, but with Gmail, the Google has already integrated this feature for us. You go to the main interface of Gmail, select a certain letter (for example, a private letter in which your wife tell you to buy food for kids), click More Add to Tasks.
Immediately, a new task will appear in the list of things to do, from which you can add the date and time expired, notes … In case you are using the reminder application supports synchronization with Google then this action will also be synchronized down and notice when it’s time to remind. Later, if you want to review emails related to that action, click on Related on line and then everything is finished!
Good luck!