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Chrome Extensions To Supercharge Your Gmail Productivity

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Gmail is clearly the leader of the mail servicing platforms with about 1 billion monthly active users. Every person who is acquainted to the internet should be having a Gmail account and you must be definitely one of them. While everyone uses internet, only a few people use it efficiently and make full use of it.

So, now we are going to give you a few list of few Chrome extensions that will help you in getting more productivity out of your Gmail.

Gmail Offline

This extension tool is provided by Google. This tool allows you to read, search, archive, send emails offline. You can send emails even when you are offline and they will be sent the moment when you are connected to the internet. So, while you use this application, you don’t have to worried about forgetting to send important emails. You can just send anytime and they will be sent when the internet is available.

Gmail Snooze

This chrome extension allows the users to snooze any email that they receive in their email window without actually opening the inbox window. Simply assign labels and make the mails in your inbox snooze.

WiseStamp

This extension allows the users to create rich email signatures. You can easily link social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and more. This way you can promote your company or website or even your personal self and this kind of signature will present yourself in a professional way.

ActiveInbox

This Chrome extension helps you with a lot of tasks and will save you a lot of time. This one is similar to a task manager. It comes with a simple and clean design yet has some awesome features in.

Bananatag

This one is an email scheduling, tracking, attachment and tracking tool. The functions it offers are very much useful and help the users to be productive.

So, do try these most powerful Gmail extensions and increase your productivity.

How to send encrypted emails using Gmail

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We would all have known about encrypted messages. The various popular messaging applications like WhatsApp and Facebook have introduced this encryption feature quite a long ago. But have you ever thought or wondered about having such a thing for emails? yes of course, it will be very much useful and safe for all those people who exchange sensitive information over emails.

Gmail, the most used mailing service needs this feature. As this service is not available as an inbuilt feature, one needs to add the extension from Chrome browser.

In the chrome browser’s web store search for the extension Secure mail for Gmail

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And add this extension to your chrome browser.

This extension lets the user send encrypted emails where the data will be hundred percent safe.

Then just open your Gmail account and sign in using your mail id and password. Just beside the compose mail button, you will find another option with lock symbol in it, click on it and a box will open, type your message and enter receiver’s details and click on send. Now it will ask you to enter the encryption password which you need to enter and share with the receiver later as he/she needs this password to open that email received. That is it, you can now very easily send encrypted emails using secure mail.

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Improve your Gmail experience with these Chrome extensions

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Google is very much famous for its most used search engine and Chrome browser and Gmail are also among the most popular services from the search engine giant. While chrome web store has a tonne of useful extensions, here are some handful of Chrome extensions that can help you in having a great Gmail experience.

Notifus:

This is one such free extension available in the Chrome web store where you can follow up on emails and check whether you got a reply from them or not. This extension keeps everything simple and free as well.

After you download and install the extension in your browser, you can see some additional options besides send menu which will include send and remind in 1 day or 2 days, 3 days, etc. You can simply click on send and remind in 2 days if you wish to get notified about the reply from that email id. Notifus thus makes things simple and useful.

Checker Plus for Gmail:

Many of us have a lot of work to do with our inboxes regularly. But opening and checking inbox every time whether we got any new emails isn’t that easy task, Checker Plus for Gmail is an awesome Chrome extension as it is not just a notifier, it even lets you interact with your email, mark emails as read or even delete them. The pop-down pane lets you interact with the email without opening a new window.

Mailtrack:

In this fast-paced generation, no one has got the patience to wait and everybody wishes to know instant results and instant responses. Mailtrack is a free extension available in the Chrome web store. It works just like the read receipts option in the WhatsApp application. One green tick on the sent mail means the email is sent and two green ticks indicate that the email has been read by the recipient.

How to enable Gmail desktop notifications

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Gmail is the most powerful and useful email service from the search engine giant Google. It is popular because of its various features and user-friendly nature.

Gmail leads in the competition of the mail services. Many people might not be aware of the desktop notifications feature in it. It is the feature where the users will be notified whenever a new email arrives.

Here in this article, I am going to show you the process of setting up the notifications for email which will send you notifications no matter what you are doing on the PC whether browsing the internet, watching videos, pictures, you are not going to miss anything important after enabling this feature.

  • To start with this thing, you must be logged in into your Gmail account.
  • There will be a gear icon available on the top right corner of the screen, click on it and you will find the Settings option, click on it.
  • You will be taken to a new page, there you have to scroll down to the Desktop Notifications option
  • Over there you will find three options and select according to your choice, I suggest to choose the first option “New email notification on”
  • Now click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

That is it you are done with the setup and using these simple steps you can enjoy the notifications feature which will alert you when a new mail arrives.

How to enable Gmail preview pane using simple steps

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Gmail, the mailing service from Google is the most used mailing service without any doubt. Large amounts of people use Gmail for their primary source of communication. But many people might not be aware of the various features that the Gmail offers. Don’t worry I will let you know the various useful features that the service offers its users. But as of now in this article, I am going to show you the process of enabling the Gmail preview pane feature.

This feature helps to have an email preview on the same screen that you are along with the other emails on one side. This gives the users ease of access to the various emails in the Inbox and makes easy to switch between the emails.

Steps for enabling the Gmail preview pane feature:

  • At first, you must be logged into your Gmail account
  • You will see a gear icon on the top right corner of your screen, click on it and then click on settings
  • Then you will be directed to another screen with various options, now choose labs tab
  • Now you will see search for a lab option there, type preview pane in the box and you will find the preview pane result below, just enable it and click on save changes
  • Google will load the page again after saving the settings
  • Now you can see an icon just beside the gear icon on the top-right corner of the screen where you can change the orientation of the pane, you can choose either vertical or horizontal.

That is it you are now done with setting up and can now be able to view email preview.