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How To Fix The Gmail Annoyances That You Hate

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Gmail is undoubtedly the most popular email service in the world. However, it is quite common for an app with about a billion monthly active users to have a few glitches. But whatever the glitches might be, they will be quite annoying for the users as they will hit them bad enough and decrease their productivity. So now, here in this article, let us look at some of the worst Gmail annoyances that we face with Gmail and also proper solutions to them.

Dealing With Gmail Annoyances

Sorting emails:

If you happen to open your mail inbox after a long vacation or something like that, then who doesn’t wish to see a sorted inbox rather than looking at the inbox with a huge number of unread emails which may include spam, junk mails as well. If you wish to have a properly sorted mail inbox, then you can actually work around with this trick.

  • You can simply type from:[sender’s name] in your mail search box to find emails from a particular person.
  • You can also use another search using size:[size in bytes] and add M at the end of the number to find emails above that particular size you have searched

So, these simple search tricks make sorting mails simple in Google mail.

Email signature:

Google has actually hidden the shiny signature templates and restricted the world from using them. Google has hidden them under the three dots at the bottom of your email window.

You click on the gear icon on your email window and then click settings, then head to the general and scroll down to the signature section of the page, there you will find an option “insert this signature before the quoted text in replies and remove the “-” line that precedes it”, just check that box. You can find this option below the email signature window.

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.