

Google tries to do some clever email sorting for you, but if you take a few minutes each day to help it along, it’s going to get smarter over time.
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Take a minute to help train Google’s algorithms The real power of the Gmail filtering system comes with what you can do with emails once they’ve been highlighted as matching your criteria: they can be marked as important or not important, starred, marked as read, sent straight to the archive, given a particular label, and more besides.

You can identify emails with attachments too. You can also create filters from inside individual conversation threads by clicking the menu button (three dots) on the right, then choosing Filter messages like this.įilters cover all kinds of different scenarios: it’s possible to pick out emails based on who sent them, or words that appear (or don’t appear) in the body of the email, or how big (or small) the emails are. On the Gmail web interface, you can create a filter by clicking the arrow to the right of the search box, then setting out your criteria. Speaking of filtering, filters are one of the best ways to tame an unruly Gmail inbox.
