Cali Tip: Gmail Filters
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Neal, my husband and co-producer for GeekBrief.TV, has been asking me to show him how I use gmail filters to keep my inbox organized. I figured, if he doesn’t know how to do it, he’s probably not alone.
1) At the top of your gmail page, click on Settings.
2) Choose Filters.
3) Click on “Create a new filter”. Filter by email address, subject or phrase. If you don’t want to read email from bacon haters, for example, you send email that says, “I hate bacon” straight to the trash!
4) Click “Next” and choose your settings. I have most of my filters set up to “Skip the inbox” and “Apply the label”.
5) Choose “Create Filter”
I love Gmail filters because they allow me to answer my email in an organized fashion, rather than letting everything get piled up in the Inbox.
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Oh no, you’re married, tooooo bad :-)
I know, I did not know that either, shame! *sigh* lol Seen the sport on BBC Click, have been following GeekBrief for aaaaages and I hope you get lots of new viewers from it! :)
Gmail supports ‘plus addressing’. This can be used effectively with GMail filters to filter out mails easily. Just Google for ‘gmail plus addressing’ and you will find a lot of articles about doing this.
Thanks for the tip. I never bothered filtering gmail. It will come in handy. Now if I could find out how to ask gmail not to thread replies and bunch them up with the original email…