![]() How about sharing your favorite ways to use GMail? This lab feature saves me a heck of a lot of time. When a PR company sends me an email about something interesting that I post about on the site, I like to give them a link to that info and thank them. The same goes for the Spotlight Gadget canned response. ![]() The Review Posted canned response is a template that I created that pastes the info into the email for me and then all I have to do is finish it up with the URL to the review. When I post a new review, I like to tell the company where they can read that review and thank them for sending the product. I use the Review posted and Spotlight Gadget responses most often. In the image above, you can see a few of the responses that I’ve created. This feature will paste an entire block of text into the editor with a simple click of your mouse. Luckily there’s a lab for that (sorry, couldn’t resist…). When you receive a lot of emails like I do, you also need to reply to them. I can’t tell you how useful this feature is for someone like me that receives close to 100 emails a day that I need to keep track of. I use my star searches, that way I can have one inbox on the screen that always shows emails that I need to follow up on, companies that are wanting me to review their products and so on. As you can see from the screen shot above (click to see full-size image), you just use a search query to build the inbox. Once enabled, you go into settings to create the inbox queries. This is the feature that will allow you to show up to 4 additional inboxes (message lists) in your GMail interface. My organization took a giant leap last week when I finally tried out the Multiple Inbox lab feature. Like I said, I’ve been using this feature for awhile now to try to stay organized. To see messages with a Yellow bang, I’d search on has:yellow-bang. For example, to show all my messages that I’ve marked with a Red star, I would just type has:red-star in the search box. The cool part comes into the fact that you can do searches on all your mail to find different starred messages. I use a Yellow bang for messages that I need to follow up on soon. For example, I use the Red star on messages from companies that are asking if I would like to review their products. You don’ t have to use all 12 if you don’t want to. This lab feature gives you a maximum of 12 colored star, check marks and bang icons that can be assigned to messages in your mail box. I started using Superstars shortly after switching to GMail. Both of these are lab features that are easily enabled by settings/labs menu pick. The two main things that you’ll probably notice right away are colored icons (stars and bangs) and the multi-windowed setup.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |