I accidentally deleted the filters for auto-archiving (skip the inbox) messages that go into my smart label (promotions, social, etc.) folders.
How can I re-enable/re-create these filters so that my inbox stops being full of these?
Gmail – How to Create Filter to Archive Smart Label Messages
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On the left hand side, click the Busy tag (or any other if you wish; it may be in a drop down) to bring up all of the messages with the selected label. Then on the top left of the messages pane, there will be a checkbox with a dropdown. Click the dropdown and select the All option. Now, under the More or More Options dropdown (upper right), select Archive. And you're done.
Ok, I have found a way to do this. Turns out that you need 1 Lab and a custom query. Although the result is not exactly the same.
First you need the Quick Links Google Lab by Dan P.
Once you have the lab enabled, you can go ahead and click on the advanced search button:
Which will allow you to create a custom query (albeit way more limited than Apple's Mail, at least you will have some control).
I select Inbox (not interested in archived stuff or deleted or anything like that), then select (for this example) 1 week from Today. And press the blue magnifying glass to perform the search.
After you see the results, click the Add Quick Link from the lab, as seen in the following image:
This will create a dynamic shortcut that will always point to "the last week" instead of fixed dates.
By using other dates and/or combinations you can create the "sense" of Smart Folders to always have a one click filter for your Family emails, and such.
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Best Answer
I deleted my Promotions labels thinking I wouldn't need it anymore but I prefer it over the new inbox so I searched a little and this seems to have worked:
Create a new label with the same name as the Smart Filter, in my case "Promotions"
Create a new filter and enter the value "label:^smartlabel_promo" in the "Has the words" field. When you do a sample filter search, that value becomes "category:promotions" automatically
Save the filter and the Smart Label for Promotions should be restored
Source for #2: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/Tly7NqKJ0_I/_1-w1AKv5VkJ