As a further improvement, Gmail, the most used e-mail service in the world, adds the priority mail function. In practical terms, this is an additional inbox that lists only those messages marked as important, which require more attention than all the others. If you receive many daily emails, priority mail becomes useful, to distinguish the emails of a certain type, such as those of your boss or some relative, compared to others that can be advertisements or automatic notifications. The priority mail is a nice innovation that however can be even more improved and personalized.
If not yet present, you can activate the priority mail in Gmail by clicking the red link that appears at the top right. Below, Gmail checks your inbox and automatically selects the messages that may be important. If you do not agree with the automatic detection, you can choose to increase or decrease the importance of the messages by clicking on the + and - keys.
By clicking on the Priority Inbox folder, you will see a different organization of Email with a division into sections that puts important and unread messages in the head and then everything else. Going to Settings you will notice the addition of Priority Inbox options. From here you can choose whether to hide the folder with the setting messages, the name, the order and the criteria of the different sections of the page and whether to display an indicator that distinguishes the priority emails from the others.
In the normal list of messages in the Inbox, important Emails are marked with a small orange box in the second column.
You can select one or more email messages and press the + or - buttons at the top to mark them as important . In this way, all future messages from the same sender will be highlighted in priority mail.
It is true that, as seen in the article on how to create Email filters on Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, it is possible to organize important messages on each e-mail in sections, both Gmail and the others, to immediately view only the messages that are not read, those from special senders or those that contain keywords in the subject. With filters it is easy to select important senders and those who do not require too much attention (such as newsletters).
In addition, some features of Gmail Labs can be used to organize email messages. By pressing on the green test tube at the top right, you can access the experimental functions and two of them are really useful for managing emails. One is that of quick links that allows you to create quick links for any Gmail page, even for searches made, for filters and individual messages. The other one is the multiple inbox which adds more folders than the standard ones. To consider also the function of nested labels so as to create groups and subgroups of categories of mail.
For the search for emails then, always in Labs, there is the function of automatic completion . With this feature enabled, you can easily use some parameters to search for any type. For example, writing "is:" suggests all possible filters.
