Cleaning up you Gmail

Here are two email tricks that I have recently learned about for gmail.

Tip 1: Time to Purge

I hate all the junk mail I get in my email.  I swear if you give so much a $5 to any organization they will hound you to the gates of hell with emails.  I just deleted 20 emails yesterday from not-for-profits.  Now no more!  With the smart filtering feature I can adopt the "I'll call you" policy and fee up my email box.  Yea!  Check the box next to the email from that annoying company or organization, then select the drop-down menu "More" and select the Filter Message like this. Then you can choose what you want to do with these.  I sent them straight to trash.   Also if you have to sign up using your email in the future your can do this tip I found here 

"When the first email from the gym shows up, click on it, then click “More,” then “Filter messages like these.” A pop-up will appear, and enter the plus sign address into the “To” line. Click “Create filter with this search.”

Then you get to choose what you want to do with those emails. Want them all to go directly to trash? Just check “Delete it,” and hit “Create filter” to save your setting. And you’ll never see an email from your gym again! They’ll automatically all go straight into the garbage."

Tip 2:  Prioritize

If you use gmail then one great feature you can use is the prioritize function.  This is a bit of a hidden function but what it always you to do is sort though the emails that you constantly get that do not need you immediate attention, such as newsletters, status updates, twitter post, pleas from charities, friend requests etc. These are all things that you want to read, just not right now.  The video below will show you how turn your gmail inbox into a to-do list (which I don't personally think is any better than actual todo list app or program, but maybe you will), but towards the end of the video it will also so you how to prioritize you emails.