Gmail – Tools to Notify on Receipt of Important Messages

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I am eagerly awaiting an important-to-me email notification. I currently have a filter set in Gmail to trap this message and flag it as important, never send it to spam, keep it in the inbox, and label it.

Once that email arrives is there anything I can do to make Gmail even more active or obnoxious to advise me of its arrival?

Can I generate a Hangouts message to myself when it shows up?

What is the current state of desktop notifications and can those notifications be bound to a specific filter?

Best Answer

No, in Gmail web client you can't have a filter or particular message generate a Hangouts message or a desktop notification specific to that particular message.

In the Gmail Android app you can assign ringtones to labels. I've taken the steps below from this Google help article. I've used this combined with a filter to automatically assign the label to the incoming message for VIP emails in the past.

  1. In the Gmail app, touch the menu Menu.
  2. Touch Settings.
  3. Choose an account.
  4. Make sure that Notifications is checked.
  5. Touch Manage labels.
  6. Choose one of your labels.
  7. Touch Sync messages and choose either Sync: Last 30 days or Sync: All.
  8. Check Label notifications.
  9. Choose how you want to be notified.
  10. Repeat for any label you want notifications for. You can choose different ringtones for different labels. Note: By default, notifications are on for Primary, so you may need to turn off its notifications.
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