Who doesn’t know Gmail?
The most popular email platform Gmail is one of the most used online platforms. It has over 4.26 billion active users globally.
Though having billions of users, not everybody knows how to use the gmail platform effectively, here Search Journal is getting the 8 popular hacks that you never know about gmail platform.
1. Get Rid of the promotional emails
By following the simple steps, you can easily curate the list of promotional emails from your mail.
In the first step, just login with your email account through the laptop or desktop. Once after logging in, search simply “unsubscribe” in the search bar and enter.
Now, click on the box to select all emails which are added with an unsubscribe tag. Now, the only step left is tap on the delete button so all the promotional emails will be deleted.
Simple right! Now, curate your email in no time….
2. Undo that email you just sent
Have you ever felt that you lost the game with your one simple mistake? And you don’t have an option to correct it?
Worry not! Because gmail is also having such an amazing option to send emails through gmail.
Just follow these simple steps here
- Click on settings icon available at top right corner
- Go from settings>General
- Toggle on ‘Undo send”
- Select 30 seconds
Once you do this, from the next time onwards, the undo button will appear automatically.
Don’t you think it’s a great option? So, let’s go for it!
3. Send a Confidential email
Sending confidential mail is a great option when sending an important email to others.
This makes your email confidential while disabling the features such as copying, printing, forwarding and downloading as well at the side of the recipient.
In order to use this confidential email lock. Just tap on the ‘lock’ symbol while sending the new email.
4. Let “Find Big Mail”
This is one of the best option to sort everything that is available in your email.
It basically currates the data and sends you the report on everything.
Also, this particular app adds a label to sort out the largest emails that it thinks to delete from your database. It is one of the best way to curate and free up thee space from your inbox.
5. Learn the Shortcuts
| Function Details | Shortcut |
| Previous message in an open conversation | P |
| Next message in an open conversation | n |
| Focus main window | Shift + Esc |
| Focus latest chat or window | Esc |
| Advance to the next chat or compose | Ctrl + |
| Advance to previous chat or compose | Ctrl+ |
| Send | Ctrl + Enter |
| Add cc recipients | Ctrl + Shift + c |
| Add bcc recipients | Ctrl + Shift + b |
| Access custom from | Ctrl + Shift + f |
| Insert a Link | Ctrl + k |
| Go to next misspelled word in Mac | Windows + ; |
| Open Spelling Suggestions | Ctrl + m |
6. Send Your Email When You Want to
Yes, you read it right. Do you wish to send a specific email at the mentioned time? Then yes, you can make it possible by letting people assume that you are at your desk.
You can do that in just few simple steps
- When preparing the email, just click on the drop down that you find right beside the send button.
- From the drop down select the section called “Schedule send”
- From that you will have option to select the date + time that you want the email to be sent
- Now, that you are done with the selection, click on schedule and sit back & relax.
The email that you wanted to send will be sent on the time that you have selected.
7. Snooze an Email
It is one of such great options that you will find in Gmail. With this, you can actually keep the email to snooze for a specific date and only after that time, the email will reappear in your inbox.
This snooze you can actually implement when you really not in need to deal with a specific email for the time being and you will want that at a specific time only again.
Isn’t it a great feature? Yes, try it for sure.
8. Do you know About Email Offline?
Yes, gmail is that handy that allows you to reply to the emails and send mails even when you are offline as well.
For using Gmail offline feature, you just have to enable the option in just some steps so that you can avail all benefits.
- Go to settings tab
- Click on all settings here and then the section of offline settings
