Gmail has power features many won’t have discovered
Gmail is the world’s most used webmail service for a reason – it’s fast, reliable and it offers a decent amount of storage, even on free accounts.
It’s also a very powerful service, wiht lots of advanced features – in both the web app and the mobile apps – that many people either haven’t discovered or don’t use.
Here, then, are five great gmail features that you might not have come across, with precise instructions on how to find them.
1.Unsubscribe The Easy way
Many people where attracted to Gmail in the first place by the generous mailbox limit, but even that can get stretched with the dozens of marketing emails you get every day, many from companies you long since stopped caring about.Unsubscribing from these mailshots one-by-one is tiresome, normally requiring you to find a tiny link at the bottom of an email and then answer tedious questions about why you’re unsubscribing on the company’s website.
However, Gmail now has a feature that lets you unsubscribe from multiple email senders with a single click on each, all from one screen. To find this feature in the Gmail web interface, you may have to click the More button under your email categories on the left-hand side of the screen. Then click Manage Subscriptions.
you should now be presented with a list of all the companies that send you emails,with the most prolific senders handily appearing at the top of the screen. Click the Unsubscribe link next to each to banish them from your inbox. This option isn’t available for every email sender, and it may take a few days for senders to remove you from their mailing lists.
2. Change To Priority Inbox
The default Gmail inbox is the same old chronological order we’ve been using since the 1990s (albeit with tabs for Primary, Promotions and Social). However, you can change the default inbox order to something more likely to surface the importent emails you want to read.
Click the Settings cog at the top of the screen, and in the pop-up menu that appears, change the Inbox Type to Priority Inbox.
This will change the order of your inbox,bringing those emails that Google’s algorithms detect as “critically important” to the top of your screen. Important emails are generally those from people you’ve corresponded with repeatedly in the past, suggesting to Google that you’ll likely want to read messages from those senders ahead of, say, a marketing email.Other emails, such as timely hotel reservations or parcel deliveries should also be given priority.
If you click the Customize button underneath the link to the Priority Inbox in settings, you can take greater control over the ordering of your inbox. My inbox is set to Important and unread, then Important, followed by Everything Else.
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