Do you get tired of emails in your inbox that aren't particularly important and/or don't need to be dealt with immediately? Well if you use Gmail (and why wouldn't you?), set up some filters to help make your email management more efficient.
With filters, emails can be automatically:
- Archived (and bypassing your inbox altogether)
- Marked as read
- Starred
- Labeled
- Forwarded
- Deleted
- more
In this tutorial, I set up a filter to automatically make any newsletters sent from a particular email address, skip my inbox and get marked with the label "Newsletters" so I can go back and read them at my leisure.
- Select the email you want to apply a filter to
- Go to "More actions"
- Select "Filter messages like these"
- Input your filtering criteria
- Click "Next Step"
- Choose the actions you want applied to messages like these
- (Check the "Also apply to ## conversations below" if you'd like)
- Click "Create Filter"
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This one post has changed my life. Thanks for helping me sort out my overwhelming e-mail mess!
My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!
THANK YOU for this post! My email box was stressing me out after somehow I ended up on a mass "send a random deal that has nothing to do with my blog" list. Now I filter all of the unwanted emails straight to the trash. Thanks, Amy!
Woohoo!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! My email is now empty and stress free…you're awesome.
Yay!
Any idea how to back-up blog posts on Blogger??
Handmadeology has a great tutorial on it.
Yay!!! My husband and I have both been wondering how to do this…thanks so much, Amy! =)
please expand a little on ideas for filters. What are some basic one that most bloggers might find helpful? Also, how do you filter "junk mail" since you don't know who they will be coming from? Please expand on this also. I read you daily and I'm learning so much. Many thanks. Karen
Karen, Gmail is pretty good at catching your Spam all by itself. I usually just check my Spam folder every so often to make sure nothing legitimate accidentally got sent there, then I just empty all the Spam.
Regarding filters, you can use them for anything you don't want to come directly to your inbox. For example, maybe you subscribe to some email newsletters that you want to read, but you don't want to be distracted by. So, you set up a filter so that when "Such-and-Such Newsletter" is sent, it skips your inbox and automatically gets archived. Then, when you have reading time, you can check that label and read them at your leisure. Does that help?