Inbox Efficiency: Gmail Tips & Tricks
Posted under: You know the feeling: The number next to your inbox has ticked upwards –surely that reply email you’ve been waiting for has finally come in– but alas you’re left to sort through deals of the day, newsletters from a site you visited two years ago, and yet another only mildly-funny email from a relative. Managing your inbox can be a daunting task to say the least, and at the end of the day, most of us resort to the search box. Mashable Tech offers us a glimmer of hope with a very promising title, How to Filter Your Gmail Like a Pro.
The article offers several helpful hints for getting and maintaining control over your inbox, but perhaps one of the most unknown hints lies within “The Power of the Plus Sign”.
“Say you want to sign up for a social network or need to register your email address to receive a coupon, but you don’t want to receive associated emails or notifications from those sites. Add a plus sign to your email and those messages will skip your inbox altogether.”
-How To Filter Your Gmail Like a Pro
Adding the plus sign and a keyword serves as a sorting mechanism once you’ve set up your Gmail filter tool, e.g. “[email protected]”, becomes “[email protected]”. The mail will still make it to you, but will be filtered to its designated spot, allowing you to find it easily if necessary and avoid the hassle of manually managing it yourself.
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