A useful technique for email managment
Google mail or gmail is a very useful emailing software. The best part is that it has virtually unlimited capacity for storing emails. However you will notice that in a short time, your inbox is inundated with emails. You may subscribe to certain service and receive emails at irregular intervals. In between you may have personal emails, business emails, not important mails etc.
How to organize these emails in seperate specific folder is the key to effective email managment. I will let out a little trick. In the gmail there is a special feature called filters. This is on the top near the search the web box.
1.Click on create filter link as mentioned above. The submenu of filter will open.
2.In the From Box mention the heading of the emails for which you want to create a filter.
3. Run test search and check weather the filter is working properly and filtering relevant emails.
4. click next step
5. You get various options. If the emails are not time important. like subscriptions then skip the inbox.
6. Apply the label. create new label and give the appropriate heading to identify it easily.
7. Also check the Box for apply to the previous conversations. This is to even organize older emails.
8.Last but not the least click on create filter.
Now that’s great the emails will automatically go into the correct folder and will make your life very much simpler. Just clik on the label which you had created and see all the emails organized properly.
One thing I find useful. Create a label called important email and move all important emails like username password info, or the receipt, or the mail you want act upon.
