Use Gmail Filters to Automate your inbos
One of the most powerful tools Gmail provides is its filtering
system. Strangely, it seems that few users of Google’s extremely popular
mail service take advantage of filters to improve their email
experience and that's such a shame. Filters can help automate many of
the tasks you may perform daily, and can streamline your inbox to show
just the emails you want, while removing those you don’t.
It’s true that Google does provide some email filtering already through features like inbox categories and tabs, automatic highlighting of ‘important’ emails, and, of course, spam filtering. But creating your own filters can take inbox organization to the next level, and help you spend less time in your inbox each day.
In this section of the settings screen you will find two sections, one for filtering emails, and another for blocking emails. In this article we’ll be focusing on filtering emails, although it’s easy to add email addresses to the blocked address list through the option under each email in a thread.
The first step to setting up a filter is to create a set of search parameters. Any incoming emails that match these search terms will be acted upon before they reach your inbox, so it’s important to make your terms as specific as necessary. Google provides several self-explanatory boxes to create the search terms you require, and you can combine as many of these fields into the one search as you’d like. Click Here
It’s true that Google does provide some email filtering already through features like inbox categories and tabs, automatic highlighting of ‘important’ emails, and, of course, spam filtering. But creating your own filters can take inbox organization to the next level, and help you spend less time in your inbox each day.
The Basics of Filtering
Filtering is accessed in Gmail under the ‘Filters and Blocked Addresses’ tab of the settings screen. You will need to open the Gmail web client on a desktop to access this setting, as there is currently no way to set up filters from the mobile Gmail app.In this section of the settings screen you will find two sections, one for filtering emails, and another for blocking emails. In this article we’ll be focusing on filtering emails, although it’s easy to add email addresses to the blocked address list through the option under each email in a thread.
The first step to setting up a filter is to create a set of search parameters. Any incoming emails that match these search terms will be acted upon before they reach your inbox, so it’s important to make your terms as specific as necessary. Google provides several self-explanatory boxes to create the search terms you require, and you can combine as many of these fields into the one search as you’d like. Click Here
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