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Getting more from Gmail's Filters
Pt. 4 of 10 | 2:34 |
Thursday June 25, 2009
Gmail 201: Intermediate Studies
Thursday June 25, 2009
Most of us get quite a bit of email each day. Email from friends, family, colleagues, and more. We get email from businesses we deal with, newsletters from groups we belong to and confirmation emails from payments or orders. Through the use of colors, in conjunction with Labels and Filters, Gmail gives you a powerful way to manage and take control of your inbox and organize your email.
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Quicktime Show Notes
- Open Gmail in your Web browser.
- You can
- For example Famliy, Work, Personal, Scouts, Church, Payments and so on.
- In our example we used blue for work, orange for butterscotch, green for personal, pink for action items and red for SIAF.
- The colors let you see immediately what is in your inbox. This can also help you to
- Items like Sent Messages don't need a color.
- You can
- So, through the use of labels, filters, and colors you can get a handle on all of your email.
- You can
assign colors to groups of of email
that are related.- For example Famliy, Work, Personal, Scouts, Church, Payments and so on.
- In our example we used blue for work, orange for butterscotch, green for personal, pink for action items and red for SIAF.
- The colors let you see immediately what is in your inbox. This can also help you to
prioritize
which emails you deal with first.- Items like Sent Messages don't need a color.
- You can
get custom colors
by using a function available in Google Labs.- So, through the use of labels, filters, and colors you can get a handle on all of your email.
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