{"id":1106,"date":"2015-02-19T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2017-10-10T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T21:50:21","slug":"gmail-interesting-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igotoffer.com\/blog\/gmail-interesting-features","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Gmail Features You Probably Don’t Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awesome Gmail Features You Probably Don’t Use<\/h2>\n

Google Gmail has many interesting features people, as well as advanced setting that people usually don\u2019t use. So, in order to improve the performance of your Gmail, we thought we would bring these options to light:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Customizable e-mail address \u2013 periods:<\/em><\/strong> Did you know that your Gmail account actually comes with numerous email addresses? Indeed, you can add a period anywhere within your username to make a unique address \u2014 changing bigfish@gmail.com to big.fish@gmail.com or b.i.g.f.i.sh@gmail.com. All messages sent to anyone of these addresses will end up in your Inbox.<\/li>\n
  2. Customizable e-mail addresses, + sign:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0You can add a plus sign after your user name.\u00a0You can then put anything you want after the plus sign. For example, your bigfish@gmail.com address doesn\u2019t change if it acquires this form: bigfish+igotoffer@gmail.com, or bigfish+mac@gmail.com, and so on.<\/li>\n
  3. Googlemail.com:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0You can swap gmail.com out for googlemail.com (bigfish@gmail.com and bigfish@googlemail.com are the same address as the domains gmail and googlemail are interchangeable for all accounts.)<\/li>\n
  4. Gmail labels:<\/em> <\/strong>Labels can help you stay organized and save time as well. You can apply as many labels as you want to a single email. For instance, one email could have the label Bills<\/em> as well as the label Accounting<\/em>. You can customize your labels and select which of them is displayed in the main sidebar as well as which one shows up within the in-message, etc.<\/li>\n
  5. Gmail filters:<\/em><\/strong> Within Gmail\u2019s settings, you can set up advanced rules for processing incoming messages.\u00a0For example, you could tell the system to automatically apply specific labels based on a message\u2019s subject line or sender. Gmail can also automatically archive certain messages, so that you\u2019ll never see them; but, you\u2019ll be able to find them if you need it. The customizable addresses (using periods or plus sign) can come in very handy here, as you might give out a unique address to a specific person.<\/li>\n
  6. Google Tasks:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0You can open up the Gmail Tasks<\/em> interface from your main inbox view. Just press G, then K. You can also click the word Gmail at the top left of the screen to access a drop-down menu with the same options. By pressing Shift-T<\/em>, or by selecting Add to Tasks<\/em> in the More<\/em> menu, you can add tasks directly to your list from emails while viewing a message.<\/li>\n
  7. Priority Inbox:<\/em><\/strong> A Gmail feature called Priority Inbox<\/em> uses a variety of variables to determine what incoming messages are important to you; it then separates them out from the less pertinent stuff. It even learns over time by responding to your habits and taking the hint when you manually adjust something that it has sorted for you.<\/li>\n
  8. Enable Keyboard Shortcuts:<\/em> <\/strong>Gmail has a host of keyboard shortcuts that let you quickly navigate through your messages. You can press R to reply to a message, or C to compose a new message. To enable keyboard shortcuts, just activate the option in your Gmail settings. You can even change the shortcuts by using the Custom Keyboard Shortcuts<\/em> option in the Gmail Labs Settings<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  9. Canned Responses:<\/em><\/strong> Canned Responses<\/em> feature allows you to create templates and then insert them into new messages with a couple of clicks. Just go into the Gmail Labs Settings<\/em> and enable the Canned Responses<\/em> option. When you compose a message, click the arrow at the bottom of the window, and select Canned Responses.<\/em><\/li>\n
  10. Gmail\u2019s Preview Pane:<\/em><\/strong> This feature is enabled within the Gmail Labs<\/em> settings<\/em>. It splits your inbox in half. It leaves the message list on the left and puts a viewing window on the right. An icon at the top of the screen lets you toggle the viewing window on or off and also provides an option to switch to a horizontal setup, if you\u2019d prefer.<\/li>\n
  11. Embedded content:<\/em> In order to view links and attachments right within your inbox, without ever leaving the message in which they are mentioned, go to Gmail Labs Settings<\/em> and look for all the features with \u201cIn Mail\u201d in their titles. You\u2019ll find options to activate in-message viewing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, maps, Google Voice voicemails, and photos from Flickr<\/em> and Picasa<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  12. Mute:<\/em> <\/strong>This feature kills mass-recipient threads. The next time you get a message with multiple recipients, click the More<\/em> button at the top of the screen and select Mute<\/em>. Gmail keeps the message archived and out of your inbox, even as new responses trickle in, unless something changes in the thread and a message arrives addressed only to you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00adSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n