Google Inbox – How to Search by Date in Google Inbox

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Inbox is an awesome new way of emailing, there is no doubt about that, but lacks a very basic feature (seems so): search by other things than text, like a date.

I tried with Gmail search keywords like before:12/07/2015 but shows no results.

Is there a way to search emails by date or should I ditch Inbox?

There is a light spec about the search box:
https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6067584, where is not specified nor the keyword from: or in: which both work. So if a search by date exists, Google is keeping it secret.

Best Answer

I tested this in Inbox. The date needs to be in the correct order. Use before:YYYY/MM/DD as documented in the Advanced Search - Gmail help article.

Related Solutions

Google-search – Returning date in Google search results

Generally, if you want to know how recent the information is, you can use a Google “date” filter (via the Advanced Search page, under the “Date, usage rights, numeric range, and more” section).

Or, you can append specific &key=value variables to your search URL, as shown on the Unofficial Google Advanced Search guide page. The guide, details several date-based or time-based options, such as date (past N months), daterange (between two Julian dates), or tbs=qdr (limit by time period).

I've had good results by appending daterange and limit by time period to my URL; mixed results with just date alone. Here are some examples.

Date: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&date=6
Date Range: http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax&hl=en&daterange=2452821-2453187
Limit by time period: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby&hl=en&tbs=,qdr:m

Google Inbox – How to Search Reminders Without Emails

You can search only for reminders by adding the search operator "is:reminder" to your search.

keyword is:reminder

If you want only reminders that have not been marked done, add "in:inbox"

keyword is:reminder in:inbox