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A Simple Bookmark Trick For Instantly Composing A New Mail In Gmail

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Gmail, a popular mailing service from the search engine giant Google has a lot of amazing and interesting features in store for its users. And it is very much known as a fast service. And the users send and receive a number of emails every day. If you are also among those people who compose a lot of emails every day and send them, then you should definitely be needing this shortcut which allows you to cut short the process of opening the Gmail inbox and then clicking on the new button to start composing a new email. But there is a simple bookmark trick for you.

Bookmark Trick

This Google’s mailing service is a cloud-based service and therefore there will be an URL associated with everything. All you need to do is just bookmark that particular URL of that particular task on your toolbar and make your task simpler.

  • A special URL that will lead you to a simple email window and you should be logged into your Google account if you wish to access the clutter free email window using the above URL
  • And if you wish to open that URL with some default parameters, then you can make use of some specific strings
  • And let us now see the strings that you can make use of if you wish to open the new compose window with default parameters

&to=contacts, you can also add multiple contacts in a single string, but you have to separate

&cc=you can add cc recipients with this string if any

&bcc=add bcc recipients using this string if any exist

&su=add subject of your email using this string

&BODY=this string can be used for adding the body of your email

%20 is a special character that you can make use of if you have to leave a space

This quick URL bookmark trick can come to you as handy at times for sending quick emails without any hassles.

Find The Messages With Attachments in Your Gmail Quickly

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Gmail has become a part of work lives that we just cannot begin or end our day without opening Gmail. It has been quite a popular service among the many email services available. If you are also the one who uses Gmail a lot and struggles in managing your stuff within the mail. Finding the attachments from the emails that we have received long back can be a really tough task as we need to surf through the inbox. Check them all to get found one mail that has the attachment that we are searching for. So worry not here we present you the simple steps to get this thing done.

Finding Mails With Attachments In Gmail

Gmail is built with powerful search features that itself allows you to get what you need found easily. And the thing is that you don’t actually have to remember the sender name, file name or the date on which you received that mail for doing this search.

You can use the keywords ‘has.attachement’ in the search of the Gmail window to get all the emails with the attachments listed below. If you are sure that you are searching for a particular file format, then you can also try searching ‘has.attachment doc’ and this bring you the list of the documents attached emails.

You can stay carefree until your storage in the Gmail inbox reaches 15GB. So, stay carefree and store countless amounts of data that you may need in the future. Get rid of all the stuff that you don’t actually want ever and this can actually help you in getting your stuff found really easy. And for finding really big file attachments, there are also some tools that you can make use of. But to find the regular attachments with small stuff and small-sized files, these tips can work for you.

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 a 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.

Blade signatures:

This extension available in the Chrome web store offers the users the easiest way to set signature in a classy style without any need for coding and hijackings. You can create your signature by adding your details like photo, website address, social profiles, and personal information. And then you can attach the signature to any email that you wish to send.

Unsubscribing mailing lists and junk newsletters in Gmail

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We may find many unwanted and useless emails in our inboxes every day and all we do with them is simply move them to trash without even opening them or trying to open them. As we are very much not interested in them at all. If that is the case, why don’t we just unsubscribe to such emails and avoid those in our inbox, yes we can by following the simple steps.

The causes may be many that the junk emails reach our inbox, but here are the steps you need to follow to get rid of those from your mail box

  • First, you need to copy Gmail unsubscriber sheet  to your Google drive by clicking the link and then signing in using your Gmail account
  • Now in the Google Sheet, go to the Gmail menu and choose to configure. Allow it to access your account.
  • Now in the inbox box, enter a label name in your inbox to unsubscribe all the emails under that label and then save changes

You can thus apply the label to unwanted mailing lists on the Google mail website, Android mail app, iOS app, any third party applications like Microsoft Outlook. Unsubscribe unwanted mailing lists and keep your inbox clean.

How to block someone in Gmail

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We are very much connected with the technology and as it helps us to connect with our personal and professional contacts every day, we make use of it a lot. We all may be thinking that the media services have the best features that can protect our privacy from the others, yes, it is true, but the mail services don’t lack behind. Especially the search engine giant’s most popular email service Gmail is no less in providing its users with the most useful features.

If you feel someone is constantly irritating you with emails or if you feel to stop someone from sending you emails and remove from your circles, then it can be possible. Very fewer people know about this, but it is possible. There are simple three steps for blocking someone on Gmail.

  • First of all, login I to your Gmail account using your login credentials.
  • Now open the mail from the particular person whom you want to block
  • You can see a drop down arrow button next to the reply icon to the right most of the sender’s name, just click on it
  • Now from the drop down menu, click Block followed by username option
  • Then you will see a confirmation window popping, just click block to confirm

That is it you are done with the process, now you won’t find those annoying emails in your inbox.