There is a great tutorial on advanced features for Gmail on the Become a Gmail ninja site.
What are some other tips or little known features of Gmail that you use which help you stay organized, and which do not appear on the Become a Gmail ninja site?
Please only post answers that do not appear in the become a Gmail ninja list, I do not want to encourage a duplicate list of content.
Best Answer
Organize your inbox by placing "+" in your email address. Any emails sent to the email address
example+webapps@gmail.com
will be received byexample@gmail.com
, because Gmail ignores the "+" and anything after it. However, this "+webapps" is searchable in Gmail.Using this, it is possible to set up filters to automatically sort emails based on the address that they are received at. So, you may give websites that will be using your email address primarily for notifications
example+notifications@gmail.com
while you give shopping websitesexample+shopping@gmail.com
and have them automatically sorted into the appropriate labels.This saves both the time it would take to create multiple filters for multiple sites (e.g. one for Amazon, one for Barnes and Noble, one for Woot that all apply the same label to your email) and is a more reliable method of filtering email than using the sender or the subject.