9 Awesome Gmail Features You Probably Don’t Use

Almost everyone likes to Gmail, right? This is one of the best email services, free email, and mail works like a dream. But you'd be surprised how little of a lot of the features of Gmail Actually bạn are using.

Good old Gmail has some interesting new features Recently, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Some interesting things in Gmail has existed for a long time without anyone bothering to use added. The change khi có the day you make today.

Mute Group Emails to Stop Distractions

We’ve all been there. A group-wide email goes out, and everyone keeps hitting “Reply All”, causing a constant ping in your inbox. You need to deal with notification-based tech distractions, and Gmail has some help.

When you want to read these emails later but not be disturbed by the constant back-and-forth, you can mute an email thread. Just open the message, click the “More” button in the top bar, and choose “Mute“. It’s as simple as that.

Now you’ll get every message update in this conversation, but no notifications for it. Ah, peace of mind.

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Right-click Emails to Archive, Delete, or Mark as Read

Your inbox can get overwhelming very quickly. Every productivity guru advises sorting your emails to manage them and reach the fabled inbox zero. When you’re sorting quickly, you need to be able to delete, archive or mark an unread email as read.

You’ll need to enable the “Mark as Read” button in Gmail Labs. Enable it by clicking Cog > Settings > Labs > Mark as Read Button > Enable > Save Changes.

In Gmail, it’s tedious to constantly select an email and then move your mouse to the buttons up top for these actions. But you don’t need to do that. The humble right-click has these three actions at the ready. Start getting used to this, you will sort your emails twice as fast as you used to do before!

Gmail Has a Preview Pane!

I’d be richer than Zuckerberg if I had a penny for every time someone said, “I like how Outlook shows the email list and opens the clicked email in a pane. I don’t like switching back and forth.” Yes, that reading pane makes it easy to blast through emails in Microsoft Outlook, but it’s in Gmail too!

Enable it through Gmail Labs by clicking Cog > Settings > Labs > Preview Pane > Enable > Save Changes.

In your main inbox view, you’ll find a four-line icon next to the Settings cog in the top-right corner. Click the drop-down arrow, and choose between “No Split” (no preview), “Vertical Split” (email list at the left, preview at the right), or “Horizontal Split” (email list above, preview at the bottom).

Bookmark Emails and Searches with Quick Links
I’ll never understand why Quick Links isn’t more popular. Saikat already talked about it in the 10 most underused Gmail features, but it bears mentioning again.

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Enable it through Gmail Labs by clicking Cog > Settings > Labs > Quick Links > Enable > Save Changes. It is a simple Gmail Labs extension that sits in your sidebar. What does it do?

Well, for one, you can save any email with this. When you have an email open, just click the “Add Quick Link” button, give it a unique name, and save it. Next time you click that link, you’ll be transported back to that email.

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Similarly, if you have searched for a particular query, you can bookmark that search results page through the same process.

Just note that you can’t add quick links if you have the Preview Pane on, so switch the pane off when you need to add a quick link.

URL Trick to Switch User Accounts
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If you have more than one Gmail account, you can sign into multiple user accounts now. Whenever you want to switch, click your avatar in the top-right corner and choose the other account. It’s simple, but if you love Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts, then there’s a keyboard-friendly trick.

Go to the URL, and change between “0”, “1”, “2” to switch to the account you want. So for example:

Account 1: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

Account 2: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox

Account 3: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox
Quick and easy, right?

Enable Personal Level Indicators
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You can find anyone’s real email address with Gmail, but that also leaves you open to getting unsolicited emails. Personal level indicators are a great way to find emails that deserve your attention. You can enable it in Cog > Settings > General > Show Personal Level Indicators.

With that, a double arrow (>>) indicates emails sent only to you, and a single arrow (>) indicates emails sent to your email address and not a mailing list. A nice way to differentiate, right?

Sign Out Remotely to Stay Safe
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Are you sure that you remembered to log out of Gmail from your office computer today? Could your friend still access your Gmail when you borrowed his laptop? The easy way to stay safe is to log out of other sessions remotely—after all, where you are using it matters, right?

Scroll to the end of your inbox and you will find Last Account Activity: x minutes ago. Click Details under it.

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A pop-up window will show you all the other computers and places you are logged in to Gmail with. With one click, you can sign out of all of them. The next time anyone wants to use your email there, the user will be asked for a password.

Verify Emails from Big Services
You’re often warned of PayPal and other scammers targetting your inbox, but you also use those services regularly. So how do you know an email is authentic? Another Labs classic, Verified Senders will ensure you’re getting emails from the proper services and not scammers.

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Enable it through Gmail Labs by clicking Cog > Settings > Labs > Authentication icon for verified senders > Enable > Save Changes.

Now, whenever you get an email from a proper service, you’ll see a little key icon to indicate it’s authentic. This way, you’re protected; if you don’t see that icon, play it safe and don’t download anything from that email or reply with any important or secure information.

Change What You See in the Sidebar
You want to see “Inbox” and “Important”, but don’t want to see “Chats” or “Sent Mails” in Gmail’s left-hand sidebar? Yup, that’s quite doable!

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Go to Settings > Labels and you will see a list of System Labels. Click “show” or “hide” on any option depending on what you want to see and what you want to hide! It’s simple and it reduces the clutter in your sidebar.

You can also do that with Categories, Circles, and general Gmail Labels!

How Many Do You Use?
So, that’s our list of nine cool Gmail features that most people don’t know about. How many of these do you use regularly?

7 Secret Gmail Features You Didn’t Know Existed

Let’s be real: Most of us are pretty dependent on our email. I mean, do not you often wake up with a box that looks like this?

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Not?? Remember: No matter how full your inbox, others always have a crazy than you do. And even when you think you know everything there is to know about Gmail, the email service near and dear to our hearts, always has a trick or two you may not have heard of. We've compiled the seven secrets best Gmail below. From delete all your inboxes in one click (we obviously can use this one) to track the websites given your contact information, check out these helpful tips :

1.. Các dấu chấm trong địa chỉ Gmail does not have the problem
You not send email Oviliajordan@Gmail.com, ovilia.jordan@Gmail.com hay Ovilia.jor.dan@Gmail.com and all they would go to the same one nơi. Các giai đoạn trong email address of you is actually hoàn toàn vô nghĩa.
2. You can click on the button ngủ trên Gmail of you
Sử dụng miễn phí Gmail ứng dụng Boomerang, you can open a email and set it to return to hộp thư đến of you in one time interval.

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3. Find out if your Gmail address has been spread and by whom

If you add a “+” sign and then any words into your Gmail address, it still works. For example, if you were to subscribe to a shopping site and your email address is JohnDoe@Gmail.com, you could use the email address JohnDoe+Shopping@Gmail.com to sign up. You’ll still get your emails and you’ll be able to filter them more easily by which address emails are sent to. Plus, if you get any emails from another site to JohnDoe+Shopping@Gmail.com, you’ll know who gave your email address out.

4. You can get desktop notifications for emails

If you’re an obsessive email checker, Gmail can pop up with little notifications on your desktop when you get an email. You can set it to notify you when you get any email, or just when you get emails that are labeled “important.” Just click the gear icon in your inbox, go to Settings, and scroll down to Desktop Notifications.

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5. You can delete the entire contents of your inbox

Ready for some spring cleaning? It’s pretty easy to erase all of your emails. In your inbox, you’ll see the number of emails you’re viewing. For me, it says “1-25 of 19,752.” Click on that to “show more messages.” From there, click the little checkbox on the top left and select “All.” From there, Gmail will ask if you really mean to select all of the messages in your inbox.

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After you’ve chosen literally every single message in your inbox, just click the trashcan to delete the messages.

6. You can un-send emails

There’s nothing worse than sending an email and immediately realizing that it had a typo in it or you sent it to the wrong person. Thankfully, there’s a way to avoid that shame. Gmail has a “lab” that gives you a few seconds between the moment you hit the send button and the moment it actually sends and allows you to stop an email from sending. All you have to do is click on the gear in your inbox, then hit “settings.” Once you’re there, go to “labs.” If you scroll down, you’ll find the lab called “undo send.” Click “enable,” then scroll down and hit “save changes.”

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7. You can use all different kinds of stars and symbols to keep your email organized

There’s more than just a yellow star at your disposal. If you click the gear symbol and then go to “general,” you can scroll down and see “stars.” There you’ll see 6 different colored stars and 6 other symbols. You can choose to use 1, 4 or all of the different symbols to categorize your emails. Make sure to “save changes” when you’re finished.

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You can also move the stars around and reorder them. If, say, blue is your favorite color, you can just use blue stars. If you put multiple stars in your arsenal, you just have to click on the star in your inbox repeatedly to make it change colors.