Results 1 to 2 of 2

Thread: 5 tips to help you manage your email with Google's Priority Inbox

  1. #1
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Posts
    176

    5 tips to help you manage your email with Google's Priority Inbox

    It’s been a week since Google has launched Priority Inbox, and now that you've hopefully had a chance to try it out. So I decided to share some tips to help you manage your email more efficiently. Here are five ways you can make Priority Inbox work even better for you.

    1. Customize your sections

    By default, Priority Inbox has three sections: "Important and Unread," "Starred" and "Everything Else.” But that doesn't mean that you have to leave them that way. You can make a section show messages from a particular label (like your “Action” or “To-do” label), add a fourth section, or change the maximum size of any section. Visit the Priority Inbox tab under Settings to customize your sections, or do it right from the inline menus.

    2. Train the system

    If Gmail makes a mistake, you can help it learn to better categorize your messages. Select the misclassified message, then use the importance buttons at the top of your inbox to correctly mark it as important or not important.

    For those of you who can't live without keyboard shortcuts, don’t worry, you can use the "+" and "-" keys to adjust importance as well.

    3. See the best of your filtered messages

    You can set up Priority Inbox to show you not just the best of your inbox, but also the best of messages you filter out of your inbox and might otherwise miss. Just change your Priority Inbox settings to “Override filters” and Gmail will surface any important messages that would otherwise skip your inbox.

    With this option turned on, you can use filters to archive more aggressively and worry less about missing an important message.

    4. Use filters to guarantee certain messages get marked important (or not)

    If you read and reply to a lot of messages from your mom, Gmail should automatically put incoming messages from her in the “Important and unread” section. But if you want to be 100% sure that all messages from your mom (or your boss, boyfriend, client, landlord, etc.) are marked important, you can create a filter for messages from that sender and select “Always mark as important.” Similarly, if you regularly read messages from your favorite magazine, they should automatically get marked as important. If you’d rather they end up in the “Everything else” section, you can create a filter to never mark them as important.

    5. Archive unimportant messages quickly

    One of the features that can help make you more efficient is the ability to archive all of the visible messages in the "Everything Else" section at once. Just click on the down arrow next to "Everything Else" and select the "Archive all visible items" option. If you want to be able to archive even more messages at once, you can increase the maximum number of messages that show in that section from the same drop-down.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Posts
    64

    Re: 5 tips to help you manage your email with Google's Priority Inbox

    Well thank you for the important tips which are mentioned here and it really helped me to solved the issues that related to me while handling the Google priority inbox. And now I am able to get rid of them and it really helped me to solve the issue.

Similar Threads

  1. Unable to delete email in inbox
    By Javalr in forum Windows XP Support
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 16-03-2012, 10:07 PM
  2. How to use priority Inbox in GMail
    By Head-Hunter in forum Tips & Tweaks
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 04-09-2010, 09:00 AM
  3. Normal priority block requests when having high priority
    By Nalini_sh in forum Windows Software
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 24-06-2010, 12:35 PM
  4. the odd inbox email in owa not visible in outlook
    By Dilbert in forum Small Business Server
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: 22-01-2010, 10:39 PM

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Page generated in 1,728,456,722.91990 seconds with 17 queries