One of the best things of Gmail is the simplicity, but you can do a lot more with Gmail than most people know. In this article, I will talk about mail aliases, filters, labels and advanced search.
1. Gmail aliases
In Gmail, there are a lot of aliases that you can use. Most people know that example@googlemail.com will work the same as example@gmail.com, but there is more. You can make as much aliases as you want.
Adding a + to the adress is the best way to create your own Gmail alias. Instead of example@gmail.com you can use example+blog@gmail.com, you can make hundreds of aliases for just one Gmail account. But what’s the point?
Making the filters
Are you also tired that all the subscription e-mails of blogs and forums pop up in your mailbox? Create a filter to stop it! For example, every time you subsribe to a RSS feed via e-mail, you give example+blog@gmail.com as your adress. Now go to your Gmail and click on Settings>Filters>Create a New Filter.
Fill in example+blog@gmail.com in the To: form and click Next Step. Fill in the form. I did it like this:
If you do this too for the forums and other automatic generated mail, your mailbox will only contain real mail. You can find the other mail by clicking on the labels where the mail is moved to:
2. Advanced Search Queries
One of the best features of Gmail is the search function. But if you have been using Gmail for some time, there are so much conversations that almost every search will have lots of results. Fortunately there is a Advanced Search Function. An overview can be found here.
What tricks do you use to improve your Gmail account?
