Gmail – Show Only Emails Arrived Within Last X Minutes

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Confirmation emails are sometimes required for signing up for a webpage or sometimes just for logging into a page with 2FA.
I don't want to see any other emails, rather than the specific email, that I opened Gmail for, because they could distract me from what I actually wanted to do in the first place.

So I want Gmail to only show me emails, that arrived within a couple of minutes from 'right now'to minimize potential distractions. How can I do this within Gmail?

I was thinking, I could use a link to search my inbox with a specific filter, maybe?

Best Answer

It appears you can specify the number of hours:

To only show a portion of your email use multiple unboxes.

  • To turn it on go to gear->settings.
  • then to advanced
  • select multiple inboxes.

that should give you a new settings tab.

You can then specify one of the new inboxes to show items newer than 1 hour. newer_than:1h

if you tell it to put the new inbox above the main inbox then the new items will be in a separate inbox above the rest.