(Note: to edit existing Filters, go to Settings > Filters tab)Īnother great and easy way to set up filters is with custom email aliases. To select all emails that match your search, click the link that appears in the pop up (highlighted in blue). I’m going to use our search string from earlier to select all emails in my Social tab that are older than 6 days.īONUS TIP: Clicking the Select All box (the one highlighted in pink below) only selects all the emails shown on that page. Here’s what I can do for a quick Gmail inbox clean up. However, I’m getting waaay too many emails from these sorts of things. I don’t want to unsubscribe to these emails because there’s a chance that someday I really will go to the Wednesday African Drum Circle at the MFA. It’s the perfect tool for online spring cleaning!įor example, my Gmail “social” tab is pretty flooded – it’s mostly messages about Meetup groups I’m a part of, or upcoming events. Archiving EmailsĪrchiving emails is a great way to keep your Inbox clean without deleting emails, letting you appear a normal, healthy internet user while secretly hoarding a decade collection of old emails. Now that conversation won’t pop back up to your attention unless a new message is addressed just to you, or if you’re added to the To: or CC: fields. With your conversation open, just go to More, and select Mute. Tired of watching your co-workers jabber on about things that don’t apply to you? Not a problem with Google Gmail’s ability to mute conversations. This sweet little feature is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and can be activated under Settings > General. Gmail desktop notifications let you instantly know when you’ve received a new email via a pop-up. The ability to create canned responses is a very cool Gmail secret that you probably won’t use most days, but when you do need it, you’ll be glad it’s there. Once a canned response in inserted, any personalization needed can be added to the template before sending it off. Now, next time you go to compose a new email, go to canned responses and you’ll see the option to insert your saved canned response.Īs you can see, I already have a canned response for apartment hunting, as I end up sending the same response (blurb about myself, what I’m looking for in an apartment, when I am available to stop by and see it) multiple times. There’s a ton of other awesome stuff in GLabs, which we’ll be exploring in some of our other Gmail hacks below. A few options down you’ll see the ability to enable Gmail’s undo button. Well, it’s only for Gmail, but it’s a start.Īctivate the “Undo” button by clicking the Gear Icon in the upper right corner, going to Settings, and then heading over to the Labs tab.
Well life has just been upgraded – turns out there is an undo button. We’ve all wished life had an undo button – for those awkward responses that blurted out of your mouth, for that bus you could have caught if you had ran just a smidge faster, for that stray hand that knocked your coffee all over your keyboard.
Those Dots are Meaningless!īelieve it or not – is the same thing as OR – all these address variations can be used for a single email address. There are tons more strings you can search using “in:” “is:” and “has:” – see them all. How awesome is that Gmail search bar? Sure, you can search keywords to filter through your massive collection of emails, but you can do a lot more with it than that. Shift + c composes a message in a new window.Ĭtrl + s | Save draft Gmail Email Search Strings Head to “keyboard shortcuts,” switch them on, then scroll down and hit “Save Changes” at the bottom.Ĭ | Lets you compose a new message. Just hit the gear icon in the upper right corner and select settings. Not handy enough for ya? We’ve got more Gmail shortcut keys, but you need to switch them on manually first. More Gmail Shortcut Keys (Just Turn 'em On)
#IS THERE AN UNDO FUNCTION IN GMAIL FOR MAC FULL#
(Note: For Gmail keyboard shortcuts with Mac, simply substitute Ctrl for ⌘)Ĭheck out the full list of Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl + Shift + 7 | Create a numbered list.Ĭtrl + Shift + 8 | Create a bulleted list.Ĭtrl + k | Insert a hyperlink for highlighted text.
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