I’m sitting here in Gmail thinking ‘how the heck do I start organizing this for a more productive New Year’ and I head straight over to you Steve, because I knew you’d have the perfect demo of it. Definitely useful, thanks!
Brilliant! Thanks Steve. I had (stupidly) been applying the labels manually after the emails arrived and not taken the time to work out how to get Gmail to do it automatically. Now thanks to your video I can finally make it work the other way around. Yet again your videos have saved me time.
Thanks so much for this. My inbox was cluttered before and nothing but a headache. Now I am sorting everything out and putting them in their rightful place. Now I feel so much better. Just like cleaning the house.This video is Great.
Small world ... was just talking to someone about how to manage Gmail and your video came up! When I told her we'd worked together, I think she thought I was kidding!! Great to have you in my network! ;-)
Gmail is awesome and powerful. I've been using Inbox for over a month now and I've grown tired of it so I've come back to gmail with my personal account. You covered the main points pretty well on the video (create tag, color tag, filter) as well as mention the multiple inboxes lab feature. As much as I love Gmail, I have to say that the settings section is horribly ugly. What you pointed out in the video, about including colors in the label section, is accurate and shows that Gmail settings needs a drastic change in design - or should I say "material design". Also, I personally thought it was a keen idea to show some messages from the community in the video. Kudos on that!! Last point, and totally unrelated, I saw in your inbox my activity on Patreon :-) I had some bank issues and had to readjust the pledge. Luckily everything is working just fine now. Happy to be supporting you!
Steve, Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience in setting up Gmail. It is helping me with "playing around" with the various settings as I figure out structuring my accounts.
Beginning an introduction in an institution contracts allot of harm to mental acceptance of the plethora given in this webinar to employ.Another email engine is the more commonly introduced and ideas about making more and most useful are often ignored.I'm glad this tutorial and others like it remain available.
Wow! Your videos are amazing, Steve! You actually make it fun to get more tech-savvy, which is something I never thought would be possible. Your explanations and enthusiasm make it so easy to understand. Thanks so much!
Very helpful! You do a great job of explaining things thoroughly. I appreciate your humor and love hearing your accent when you say "about". :) Thank you!
I really appreciate your inspiring presentation on this subject: your years of research, your depth of understanding of using Gmail, and your ability to present the subject in such an interesting way. The image(s) you show in the back while presenting is very helpful for dummies like me. This subject intrigues me, and I plan to learn more by watching more of your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you so much for sharing your time and experiences with us. Thank you again for your contribution.
I always wondered what happened to you. I used to watch DottoTech when I was younger and had cable. Great to see the Tech continues! ~Scott, Guelph, ON
Steve: I set my labels with a-z and have sub labels under most of the a-z. What I do to keep the most important label on the top is i give it number 1 then the name for example I would have 1CALENDAR and this would be on the top and I would not need to scroll for it. You could put 1-9 numbers and categorize by importance. Very customary. I do agree about allowing us to color in the labels tab in settings. Maybe an additional tab category in settings should be COLOR and in this page you could create a color and categorize it or associate it by type of label, etc.
Your video came up as a top hit to a Google search. So, this was on target. Yes, you have. I remember your early shows with the Knowledge Network... you were a pioneer then and continue to be. Rest assured... I will check out more!
Very nice. I just ran into your channel this afternoon. Very informative and well spoken. Great job, can't wait to filter through some of your other posts. Thank you.
Mr. Dotto, I would really appreciate it if you were to create more videos about Android-specific apps. Thanks very much for the addictive content. -Joy
Very informative, Steve, thank-you. I am having a heck-of-a-time with my gmail inbox and have found your video to be very useful. I wouldn't want to get sentimental but I remember you on your show "Dotto's Data Cafe" years ago- our computer teacher used to use the occasional little clip to illustrate something for us. I have to say, you've aged quite well for a computer guy- I wish I had your hairline...LOL. It's nice to see you're still going strong, doing what you love to do. Keep up the good work.
Excellent. Diane Darling and I were just talking about the G-mail management challenge when minutes later I discovered your video. It was a hoot to find out afterwards that you and she have worked together.
Very clear and helpful video! Is there a way to create labels and have recurring emails forward to that 'folder' and not have them show up in the inbox, but still have access to those emails when you'd like to catch up on those updates?
Great video, Thanks! I really wish the labels would carry over to Inbox. Been using it every day now for a few weeks and it's getting quite frustrating to keep organized.
Hi Steve! Just found you and subscribed. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us by your super presentations. I've already learned a lot from you--including utilizing "tasks" in my Gmail calendar. You're awesome!
Thanks Steve....funny how this worked out, as I moved all my different emails to gmail yesterday... perfect timing for me..:) Happy New Year, by the way..
Terrific video and it covered exactly what was needed! You rock! And, thanks for the fun plug! If you're ever in Dallas, you can consider yourself welcome and can "come over to Korky's" anytime!
Looks like lots of options in gmail but incredibly difficult for for those of us that are of the older generation and not computer savvy. My yahoo is simple like my older lifestyle, create folder ,name it ,tap move as I read it,done. Gmail looks useful for people who have multiple business programs. But must us older folks like things simple gmail is anything but. Thanks for the ear for me to bend.
Hi Steve. Great information. Do you also have a video telling about how you change the vertikal distance between the labels, and how you get a wider column for the labels, so you can see the entire label?
Hi Dotto Tech. Great video by the way. I am wondering if you know of a way to only view some tagged emails in their tag folder and exclude them from being viewed in the inbox? I have many emails coming into my account that I don't often need to read but they are still important so I would like them to sit in a folder out of the way until I need to view them. Do you know of a way to do this?
Okay, I think I set up my filters correctly. But now I want to move all the previous emails into those folders with just a few clicks. How do I do that? I'm really trying to clean up the inbox!
Steve, this was a very helpful video. One Question - If you get emails from multiple addresses in an organization and you want to filter all those emails into one Label, is it possible to have multiple addresses in the from box, if so how? I tried a comma between email addresses and that did not work, can this be done, or do I have to set up a separate filter for each senders email address. Thanks, Steve Munier
Hi Steve Great vids! learned so much! U convinced me to start using Gmail more & better... I tried setting up labels & filters & they just aren't working... bot sure where I misstepped.... also using POP3 to import my email from GoDaddy but its very slow to load...any thoughts to help?
I select an email and wish to move it via the drop down folder to place it under a label, however the drop down folder has every file imaginable and I have to scroll to much. How do I remove/hide the sub folders so only the main folders show? I have tried nesting them under main folders but they all still show up, can I archive them? Thanks
Steve this is completely different now under the new Gmail interface - can you please redo this lesson. I have decided to start migrating away more from outlook and use Gmail but I am unable to set up the labelling system as herein instructed. Thanks
Great tutorial. I notice the option SHOW IN IMAP. Should this be checked and what does it mean? Also, I have about 6500 emails (spam) in my promotions box. Is there any easy way to delete these all rather than just 50 at a time? Thanks in advance, Scott
thanks. labels and filters are a great idea. can emails arrive in different tabs instead of all arriving in the same inbox? for example not just Primary, Social, Forums etc but tabs denoting geneological projects i belong to such Fatherline, Transcription, Motherline, Cen, Reg etc. can tabs be created so that i could see at a glance that say 5 Fatherline, 2 Transcription, 8 Motherline, 3 Cen and 6 Reg related emails arrived today?
Sorry Steve, but that is incorrect. You don't have to "Enable multiple inboxes" in Labs to be able to download from another account. I'm sure someone has mentioned this already, why not update the information with a correction. The multiple inboxes feature, creates different frames on top or on the right where you can see all the emails with a specific label. Very useful if you read mail sent to different addresses.
thank you for the tutorial! how did you import your other email accounts? I have tried to do it on my own, but gmail has filtered all the messages, and I honestly can not find them. Any idea how to solve it? thx!
What about the categories on the filter? Also is there a way to organize the categories and how they appear in gmail? i.e. personal-social-updates...but I want the order to be Personal -updates-social?
I am confused. Gmail has changed a little since this broadcast.Labs is not shown.A tab marked Multiple Inboxes is there with fields to fill in. What my objective to do is, have my emails with colored labels. I go through the process, or I think I have, I have applied labels, but next morning the email is in my inbox without the labels.I also have told certain emails to skip the inbox and go directly to archive, which I would hope would be the labels folder. Nothing is working and I do not know why.
Excellent video, Steve! I currently use webmail with my ISP for my domain. I want to switch to another ISP. My current ISP does not have an email export feature - believe it or not! Well, the only way to export is to highlight several emails and export them as a group. Not very functional. So will Gmail access all the emails from my current ISP and bring them in as individual emails? I currently have several folders that I've divided my emails into. Do you think Gmail can import them folder by folder and allow me to color code them by the folder categories they're currently in? I hope all this makes sense. Have a great day! Mark
Steve, Thanks for this great video about gmail features, I am trying to get control of my email situation. I have over the years some how accumulated an ISP email addresses x2, a gmail address, iCloud/.mac/.me addresses x2 (one an alias), and my corporate exchange email address. I want to streamline this mess and I am thinking that gmail is probably the best option for bringing them all together into one mailbox with the labels function. What do you think?
Can I set up a different login for email aliases? I want to give my partners their own workspace email but don't want them to have access to the workspace admin account
Help....I have been doing the filtering and labeling as you present....love the colors>>>but for some reason ....several labels are appearing for every email.....so there will be mi;title unrelated labels for every email....but unfiltered emails are ok....so I must have done something when setting up filters....HELP---I have gone to the filter page and am trying to figure out if that is the problem.....and the labels settings.....I am stumped. Would appreciate any suggestions.
Hello thank you for video, I have a question, maybe you could help me. I have a label for all TH-cam mails called "TH-cam", and I have a filter that assigns this label to all mails from TH-cam, and I have nested label in TH-cam called "Live", and correspondingly I have a filter that applies "Live" label to all TH-cam mails that are notifying me about live videos. The problem here is that I don't want nested label "Live" mails to appear in parent label "TH-cam". May be somebody knows how this could be done ?
Thank you for the video. Question, I am an independent contractor most of my income comes from Company A, they are a google office, if I forward my other emails there, they can see them if they wanted to, right? Is it better if I forward Company A emails to my personal business gmail account? will it screw up functionality like google docs and sheets that I share with them? Thoughts?
It should make no difference, you will still be accessing those resources via your Google Drive account, it does not matter which email account you use. But you will have to also sign into your Google Account.
Thanks for the great video, Steve! If we make a filter using the "contains" option, can this be only one keyword per filter or can you have multiple words? For example, if I'm trying to create a filter for Sports related emails, could I have one filter setup containing the keywords Basketball, Football, Soccer etc, to be grouped under a Sports label? Or would each keyword need its own filter? Thank you!
Thanks! Forgot to ask in my previous question, would these keywords be searched by gmail in the body of the email itself, or only the email subject lines? Thanks again!!!
How do you use gmail and keep from having to download all attachments i.e. excel files, word files , ppt files that are sent to you in a email. I either have to download or open with google sheets/docs etc... which I prefer to use excel/word etc
HI there! I have followed these steps multiple time and chose colors for my labels. I am not forwarding from other inboxes, but still want the color labels to show in the email when it is received. I am getting the color coding in the sidebar, but not in the email itself in the inbox. Have you ever seen this? How can I fix it?
Hey Jeni, did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the same problem. I looked over the filter and label settings and couldn't find where I had messed up.
So I just set this up and I am still not seeing any labels applied. I tried 3 different label categories. I have 3 different email addresses. Any help/insight would be great.
Hi Steve, I just opened a label and selected all the emails in the label and then added them to a label... now all the emails in that label are gone - it says "no conversations"? Not sure what happened but need to get them back! Thanks for your help.
I’m sitting here in Gmail thinking ‘how the heck do I start organizing this for a more productive New Year’ and I head straight over to you Steve, because I knew you’d have the perfect demo of it. Definitely useful, thanks!
I just discovered Dottotech ... how did I NOT know about you?! I have learned so much, Dottotech will now be my first 'goto' for understanding Google!
Brilliant! Thanks Steve. I had (stupidly) been applying the labels manually after the emails arrived and not taken the time to work out how to get Gmail to do it automatically. Now thanks to your video I can finally make it work the other way around. Yet again your videos have saved me time.
Tim Waters Great to hear Tim! That is why we are here!
Thanks so much for this. My inbox was cluttered before and nothing but a headache. Now I am sorting everything out and putting them in their rightful place. Now I feel so much better. Just like cleaning the house.This video is Great.
Glad to hear it!
Small world ... was just talking to someone about how to manage Gmail and your video came up! When I told her we'd worked together, I think she thought I was kidding!! Great to have you in my network! ;-)
Diane Darling LOL that is terrific! You always bring so much value to this channel, hey, what is happening with the +mentions? Are they coming back?
dottotech - did you get my email about your trip to the East Coast USA? Or did the email miss your filter system! :-)
Gmail is awesome and powerful. I've been using Inbox for over a month now and I've grown tired of it so I've come back to gmail with my personal account.
You covered the main points pretty well on the video (create tag, color tag, filter) as well as mention the multiple inboxes lab feature. As much as I love Gmail, I have to say that the settings section is horribly ugly. What you pointed out in the video, about including colors in the label section, is accurate and shows that Gmail settings needs a drastic change in design - or should I say "material design".
Also, I personally thought it was a keen idea to show some messages from the community in the video. Kudos on that!!
Last point, and totally unrelated, I saw in your inbox my activity on Patreon :-)
I had some bank issues and had to readjust the pledge. Luckily everything is working just fine now. Happy to be supporting you!
Steve, Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience in setting up Gmail. It is helping me with "playing around" with the various settings as I figure out structuring my accounts.
Beginning an introduction in an institution contracts allot of harm to mental acceptance of the plethora given in this webinar to employ.Another email engine is the more commonly introduced and ideas about making more and most useful are often ignored.I'm glad this tutorial and others like it remain available.
Wow! Your videos are amazing, Steve! You actually make it fun to get more tech-savvy, which is something I never thought would be possible. Your explanations and enthusiasm make it so easy to understand. Thanks so much!
Very helpful! You do a great job of explaining things thoroughly. I appreciate your humor and love hearing your accent when you say "about". :) Thank you!
Natalie Young LOL thats what I am here for!
Thank Steve. I only recently joined your community. You are providing a great service
+Elvis Netterville Welcome aboard Elvis, I am glad you found us!
I really appreciate your inspiring presentation on this subject: your years of research, your depth of understanding of using Gmail, and your ability to present the subject in such an interesting way. The image(s) you show in the back while presenting is very helpful for dummies like me. This subject intrigues me, and I plan to learn more by watching more of your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you so much for sharing your time and experiences with us. Thank you again for your contribution.
Welcome aboard Joanne!
I always wondered what happened to you. I used to watch DottoTech when I was younger and had cable. Great to see the Tech continues! ~Scott, Guelph, ON
So glad you found us again!
For a complicated subject I never knew I needed, you made it so Cl ear. ..not sure how it'll work on the iPad but we'll see. Thank you!
Marj Nesbitt Thanks Marj!
Steve: I set my labels with a-z and have sub labels under most of the a-z. What I do to keep the most important label on the top is i give it number 1 then the name for example I would have 1CALENDAR and this would be on the top and I would not need to scroll for it.
You could put 1-9 numbers and categorize by importance. Very customary. I do agree about allowing us to color in the labels tab in settings. Maybe an additional tab category in settings should be COLOR and in this page you could create a color and categorize it or associate it by type of label, etc.
Dotto... you ROCK!! Keep doing what you do so well!!
Is that you Duncan, from Advantage days?
The very same! Watching this video brought back some good memories of you, sir!!
You made me smile, (Man, you could look at a newer video, we have come a long way)
Your video came up as a top hit to a Google search. So, this was on target. Yes, you have. I remember your early shows with the Knowledge Network... you were a pioneer then and continue to be. Rest assured... I will check out more!
Great video by Steve on Gmail's labels
Excellent video.It helped me to organise and declutter my inbox.Keep the good work
Great Video. Just stumbled onto your channel looking to organize my email better. Love your articulation and pace.
Thx so much for showing me how to color my labels! You've made my day (colourful) :)
Great video Steve! In the process now of organizing my Gmail. Thanks again.
Very nice. I just ran into your channel this afternoon. Very informative and well spoken. Great job, can't wait to filter through some of your other posts. Thank you.
ZeroSecDox I am glad you found us!
Good info, I'd really been struggling to organise my gmail & make it productive.
I can easily understand his instructions and move forward.
Mr. Dotto,
I would really appreciate it if you were to create more videos about Android-specific apps. Thanks very much for the addictive content.
-Joy
Joy Lobo I will do my best Joy!
Very informative, Steve, thank-you. I am having a heck-of-a-time with my gmail inbox and have found your video to be very useful. I wouldn't want to get sentimental but I remember you on your show "Dotto's Data Cafe" years ago- our computer teacher used to use the occasional little clip to illustrate something for us. I have to say, you've aged quite well for a computer guy- I wish I had your hairline...LOL. It's nice to see you're still going strong, doing what you love to do. Keep up the good work.
+Projectix J It is great to hear from those who saw us way back in the beginning!
Thanks for taking the time to say hey!
Steve, impressed with the way you record the video with the background. Can you do a video on this process and what equipment you use? Thank you!
Excellent. Diane Darling and I were just talking about the G-mail management challenge when minutes later I discovered your video. It was a hoot to find out afterwards that you and she have worked together.
Glynis Gordon Diane is my main advisor on all things Google+! Glad you found me!
Very clear and helpful video! Is there a way to create labels and have recurring emails forward to that 'folder' and not have them show up in the inbox, but still have access to those emails when you'd like to catch up on those updates?
Great info, I'd really been struggling to organise my gmail & make it productive. All makes sense now.
Great video, Thanks! I really wish the labels would carry over to Inbox. Been using it every day now for a few weeks and it's getting quite frustrating to keep organized.
Thank you so much this helped a lot!!!! You saved my life
Thank you. Excellent description.
Hi Steve! Just found you and subscribed. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us by your super presentations. I've already learned a lot from you--including utilizing "tasks" in my Gmail calendar. You're awesome!
+Boo welcome aboard Boo, glad you found us!
What a great explanation! I loved this video so much. Thank you very much!
Thanks Steve....funny how this worked out, as I moved all my different emails to gmail yesterday... perfect timing for me..:) Happy New Year, by the way..
Jame Grabham Happy New Year to you as well Jame!
Very nice job of covering this
Thank you so much for this Video. I have a Gmail account but not really using it as a working productive mail box... Great Video
Thanks for the label coloring insight!!! Very Useful! :)
You spelled "Organising" wrong...only kidding. Great video, I really needed it.
Thanks,
Brian
+Brian Wilson LOL, chances are that would be the case!
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Thank you. this video is helping me to be more organize.
Terrific video and it covered exactly what was needed! You rock! And, thanks for the fun plug! If you're ever in Dallas, you can consider yourself welcome and can "come over to Korky's" anytime!
Korky Kathman LOL, thanks Korky, will do!
Very helpful video thanks Steve I have been a fan of yours since your TV show days very awesome content love your videos
Dave Egan I am glad you found me here Dave!
Looks like lots of options in gmail but incredibly difficult for for those of us that are of the older generation and not computer savvy. My yahoo is simple like my older lifestyle, create folder ,name it ,tap move as I read it,done. Gmail looks useful for people who have multiple business programs. But must us older folks like things simple gmail is anything but. Thanks for the ear for me to bend.
Sir you are a legend, nice walk thru!
Thanks You!
I totally need to get more organised!
Very instructional and witty.
very useful content Steve!.
i hope you only blur only your gmail account not all, I'm studying how to handle Gmail and thank you very much for this!, very helpful.
Hi Steve. Great information. Do you also have a video telling about how you change the vertikal
distance between the labels, and how you get a wider column for the labels, so you can see the entire label?
+Mariann Juul Sorry, not I have no idea how to go about that,
Try the google help foum
productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/drive
Thanks anyway. I got a tip elsewhere: install the Chrome "Gmail label column resizer" and restart Chrome. And suddenly everything lookes better!
Great video! Can you please do top chrome extensions for productivity? That would be epic and it would go great with this.
Nice Tech Analysis met
Hi Dotto Tech. Great video by the way. I am wondering if you know of a way to only view some tagged emails in their tag folder and exclude them from being viewed in the inbox? I have many emails coming into my account that I don't often need to read but they are still important so I would like them to sit in a folder out of the way until I need to view them. Do you know of a way to do this?
Okay, I think I set up my filters correctly. But now I want to move all the previous emails into those folders with just a few clicks. How do I do that? I'm really trying to clean up the inbox!
Steve, this was a very helpful video. One Question - If you get emails from multiple addresses in an organization and you want to filter all those emails into one Label, is it possible to have multiple addresses in the from box, if so how? I tried a comma between email addresses and that did not work, can this be done, or do I have to set up a separate filter for each senders email address. Thanks, Steve Munier
Hi Steve
Great vids! learned so much! U convinced me to start using Gmail more & better... I tried setting up labels & filters & they just aren't working... bot sure where I misstepped.... also using POP3 to import my email from GoDaddy but its very slow to load...any thoughts to help?
Fantastic video, thanks for sharing. Definitely going to start using labels and filters to organise my gmail now!
your explanation is too good
I select an email and wish to move it via the drop down folder to place it under a label, however the drop down folder has every file imaginable and I have to scroll to much. How do I remove/hide the sub folders so only the main folders show? I have tried nesting them under main folders but they all still show up, can I archive them? Thanks
Can you apply multilple filters, as in multiple key words to be searched in the emails or subjects? If so, how can you do it?
Thank you very well explained!
Steve this is completely different now under the new Gmail interface - can you please redo this lesson. I have decided to start migrating away more from outlook and use Gmail but I am unable to set up the labelling system as herein instructed. Thanks
Great tutorial. I notice the option SHOW IN IMAP. Should this be checked and what does it mean?
Also, I have about 6500 emails (spam) in my promotions box. Is there any easy way to delete these all rather than just 50 at a time? Thanks in advance, Scott
Steve, when I follow your instructions to enable the 'LAB', it does not show on my bar; what do I need to do to display 'LAB' in my settings bar?
Thanks for the tutorial
I'd like my gmail in a folder on my desktop. Do you have a tutorial for that?
Ideall English talk!
Hi! I just watched this video. My question is how do you put the labels below the drafts in your left sidebar? Maybe anyone can answer?
thanks. labels and filters are a great idea. can emails arrive in different tabs instead of all arriving in the same inbox? for example not just Primary, Social, Forums etc but tabs denoting geneological projects i belong to such Fatherline, Transcription, Motherline, Cen, Reg etc. can tabs be created so that i could see at a glance that say 5 Fatherline, 2 Transcription, 8 Motherline, 3 Cen and 6 Reg related emails arrived today?
Sorry Steve, but that is incorrect. You don't have to "Enable multiple inboxes" in Labs to be able to download from another account. I'm sure someone has mentioned this already, why not update the information with a correction. The multiple inboxes feature, creates different frames on top or on the right where you can see all the emails with a specific label. Very useful if you read mail sent to different addresses.
This was super helpful. Thank you!
thank you, most useful, kind regards, Melody.
thank you for the tutorial! how did you import your other email accounts? I have tried to do it on my own, but gmail has filtered all the messages, and I honestly can not find them. Any idea how to solve it? thx!
What about the categories on the filter? Also is there a way to organize the categories and how they appear in gmail? i.e. personal-social-updates...but I want the order to be Personal -updates-social?
Great video! Any idea why "Skip Inbox" in the Filter set up doesn't seem to be working for me?
+John Wood No, sorry, but the best place for help on thinsiis the Google forum
productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/drive
dottotech
I am confused. Gmail has changed a little since this broadcast.Labs is not shown.A tab marked Multiple Inboxes is there with fields to fill in. What my objective to do is, have my emails with colored labels. I go through the process, or I think I have, I have applied labels, but next morning the email is in my inbox without the labels.I also have told certain emails to skip the inbox and go directly to archive, which I would hope would be the labels folder. Nothing is working and I do not know why.
very useful
Really great. Tutorial. Thank you!
Excellent video, Steve!
I currently use webmail with my ISP for my domain. I want to switch to another ISP. My current ISP does not have an email export feature - believe it or not! Well, the only way to export is to highlight several emails and export them as a group. Not very functional.
So will Gmail access all the emails from my current ISP and bring them in as individual emails? I currently have several folders that I've divided my emails into. Do you think Gmail can import them folder by folder and allow me to color code them by the folder categories they're currently in?
I hope all this makes sense.
Have a great day!
Mark
***** It does make some sense, but I am not certain,can you convert your current email to IMAP, if you can you should be fine. (I hope!)
Steve,
Thanks for this great video about gmail features, I am trying to get control of my email situation. I have over the years some how accumulated an ISP email addresses x2, a gmail address, iCloud/.mac/.me addresses x2 (one an alias), and my corporate exchange email address. I want to streamline this mess and I am thinking that gmail is probably the best option for bringing them all together into one mailbox with the labels function. What do you think?
***** Sounds very similar to my setup, so I think you are in good shape moving in that direction
Can I change those already named labels of promotion, social, etc. to a unique name I want? If so, how?
The labels don't seem to hide in the list on the left. Is it different now?
Thanks . It was helpful
Can I set up a different login for email aliases? I want to give my partners their own workspace email but don't want them to have access to the workspace admin account
Help....I have been doing the filtering and labeling as you present....love the colors>>>but for some reason ....several labels are appearing for every email.....so there will be mi;title unrelated labels for every email....but unfiltered emails are ok....so I must have done something when setting up filters....HELP---I have gone to the filter page and am trying to figure out if that is the problem.....and the labels settings.....I am stumped. Would appreciate any suggestions.
Hello thank you for video, I have a question, maybe you could help me. I have a label for all TH-cam mails called "TH-cam", and I have a filter that assigns this label to all mails from TH-cam, and I have nested label in TH-cam called "Live", and correspondingly I have a filter that applies "Live" label to all TH-cam mails that are notifying me about live videos. The problem here is that I don't want nested label "Live" mails to appear in parent label "TH-cam". May be somebody knows how this could be done ?
very nice this tutorial
Thank you for the video. Question, I am an independent contractor most of my income comes from Company A, they are a google office, if I forward my other emails there, they can see them if they wanted to, right? Is it better if I forward Company A emails to my personal business gmail account? will it screw up functionality like google docs and sheets that I share with them? Thoughts?
It should make no difference, you will still be accessing those resources via your Google Drive account, it does not matter which email account you use. But you will have to also sign into your Google Account.
good video
Thanks for the great video, Steve!
If we make a filter using the "contains" option, can this be only one keyword per filter or can you have multiple words? For example, if I'm trying to create a filter for Sports related emails, could I have one filter setup containing the keywords Basketball, Football, Soccer etc, to be grouped under a Sports label? Or would each keyword need its own filter?
Thank you!
xderiwx Sure, you can use multiple keywords.
Thanks!
Forgot to ask in my previous question, would these keywords be searched by gmail in the body of the email itself, or only the email subject lines?
Thanks again!!!
xderiwx You can set it up for either
Thank You so much for doing this!!! Love your energy and Im grateful for the simplicity!!! Now...if you could just help me understand iTunes! LOL!
+Kelly Sweet Thanks! I hear you on iTunes, it is like they sith there and try and figure out new ways to confuse us!
Thank you, V helpful.
how do I create labels with the same name? Like Mr. Robert "support" and Mrs. Maria "support". 2 different people under the same label name ?
Kool awesome never knew that I have 30,000 email most junk
How do you use gmail and keep from having to download all attachments i.e. excel files, word files , ppt files that are sent to you in a email. I either have to download or open with google sheets/docs etc... which I prefer to use excel/word etc
Good Job! Thanks
Hi, Is there any way to create a filter with multiple emails in "FROM" address.? is it possible ?
HI there! I have followed these steps multiple time and chose colors for my labels. I am not forwarding from other inboxes, but still want the color labels to show in the email when it is received. I am getting the color coding in the sidebar, but not in the email itself in the inbox. Have you ever seen this? How can I fix it?
Hey Jeni, did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the same problem. I looked over the filter and label settings and couldn't find where I had messed up.
I did not - tried everything !
So I just set this up and I am still not seeing any labels applied. I tried 3 different label categories. I have 3 different email addresses. Any help/insight would be great.
try productforums.google.com/forum/
Hi Steve, I just opened a label and selected all the emails in the label and then added them to a label... now all the emails in that label are gone - it says "no conversations"? Not sure what happened but need to get them back! Thanks for your help.
+Kathy Lyons I have no idea what happened, but do a search for the email address of the person who sent you the email to find it again.