Tips and Tricks

Sort Messages by Keyword Using Gmail Search

You might be used to sorting messages in your Inbox, listing them by sender, for example, or the date they're received. In Gmail, you can do essentially the same thing by searching for messages. Searching may sound like more work, but it can actually be easier, faster and a lot more powerful than sorting, once you learn a few tricks! Many of you do this already when you search the Bible online. You probably don't sort through the books of the Bible. you probably enter the book, chapter and verse to immediately find what you are looking for. Or, you enter the words that you remember from a particular passage and you instantly find that verse, even if you can't remember exactly where it is. These are common examples of how searching can help you find your emails and other information much more quickly.

Unthread Your Conversations

With Gmail's Unthreaded feature, you can now switch between conversation view, where a message and its replies are threaded together in a single conversation, and the traditional view where replies are all listed separately in your Inbox.

Create Nested Labels

Miss your nested folders? Use Gmail's Nested lab to organize your labels in a hierarchy, the same as other mail programs often let you do with folders.