et's face it, Google today is synonymous with internet. With its numerous online services, it has become nearly impossible to go a day without Google. One of its ubiquitous service is Gmail, which has become an indispensable part of our lives. From sending school applications to forwarding job resumes, we today use Gmail almost all the time.
While using Gmail is quite simple, you can always choose to be the smarter one by exploring some of the hidden features that Gmail offers. Here are 10 tips that will help you use Gmail in a better way.
Colour your stars
Ditch those boring looking stars and show some love for the colours in your inbox. Not only the colourful stars look cooler, they also help you organise your inbox.
So how do you do it? Go to Settings and then look for Stars section in the General tab. If you're fine with the Google preset stars, you can select 4 stars or all stars to have more star colours available to you. You can also drag and drop each star from Not in Use category to In Use category. Once you are done, scroll down and click Save.
Search big files
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If your Gmail inbox is running out of space, you can clean it up. And the best way to clean it is by finding the large emails. Say for example, you want to find and delete all the emails that are larger than 10mb. To do so, go to the Gmail search bar and type: "larger:10m". This will fetch all the emails that are bigger than 10mb in size. Similarly you can search other heavy emails and clean the inbox.
Be wise and Archive
This is one another way to smarten up your inbox system. Gmail's Archive tool helps you remove your mails from inbox but keeps them in your account and your search box. As Gmail says, it's like moving messages into a filing cabinet instead of putting them in the trash can.
How do you Archive messages? Here is the way. Gmail > Open or select the message you want to archive > Click the Archive button.
Label with a style
This is one more email management tool from Gmail. Labels are basically tags that help you categorize your mails. When you add a brightly coloured label, it's easy to see related messages. Also, you can add more than one label to a message. To create a label, click the Labels drop-down menu with the message or messages you want to label checked or open. Then Create new > Type the desired label name > click OK.
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