gmail

Most Useful Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts That You Must Check Out

August 7, 2019 by Satyapriya

Gmail is undoubtedly the most popular and widely used mailing service. Many of us might be using it as a default mailing service. But how efficiently we have been using it? How to manage everything in a more effective way making it simple and easy to use? So, catch up some of the productive tips as we offer you the Gmail keyboard shortcuts.

Effectively Useful Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are some of the shortcuts for quick navigation.

G, then A Takes you to the All Mail

G, then C Takes you to Contacts

G, then D Takes you to Drafts

G, then I Takes you to Inbox

G, then K Takes you to Tasks

G, then S Takes you to Starred Conversations

G, then T Takes you to Sent Messages

G, then L Takes to label…

The below are the shortcuts for reading messages in your Gmail

A Reply all

E Archive

F Forward

M Mute conversation

N Next message in open conversation

P Previous message in open conversation

R Reply

X Select conversation

Z Undo last action

Comma Move focus to the toolbar

! Report as spam

# Delete

– Mark as not important

= Mark as important

Shift + I Mark as read

Shift + R Reply in a new window

Shift + T Add conversation to Tasks

Shift + U Mark as unread

Also, check out these most needed formatting Gmail keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl + B Bold

Ctrl + I Italics

Ctrl + U Underline

Ctrl + [ Indent less

Ctrl + ] Indent more

Ctrl + \ Remove formatting

Shift + Ctrl + 7 Numbered list

Shift + Ctrl + 8 Bulleted list

Shift + Ctrl + 9 Quote

Shift + Ctrl + E Align center

Shift + Ctrl + L Align left

Shift + Ctrl + R Align right

We hope these useful Gmail keyboard shortcuts will be useful to you for making your time more productive. Make use of these productive tips and make life with Gmail easier and fun.

Improve your Gmail experience with these Chrome extensions

August 12, 2017 by Satyapriya

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

August 9, 2017 by Satyapriya

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.

Finding the date of creation of your Google account

May 26, 2017 by Satyapriya

Have you ever wanted to know about the date of creation of your Google account? If so, have you ever thought of the procedure? If you ever want to restore your account in the future, then Google will ask some questions and one of them will be the date of creation of your Gmail.

So, it is very important to make a note of Google account creation.

The simple and easy way to know the account creation date is just checking out the date in your welcome message from Google. You can find the message in your inbox. But in case if you have deleted this mail, then don’t worry here are some steps you can follow in order to find your account creation date.

Open your Gmail account settings

Then go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab and there under the POP download option, you can see the date in the format of mm/dd/yy which your account creation date.

In the above screenshot, you can observe the highlighted area, where you can see the date is the creation date of my Gmail account. In the same way, you can also keep a note of the creation date of your account.

Track the emails you sent using Gmail

February 21, 2017 by Satyapriya

Tracking the sent messages have become the most popular feature in many of the messaging platforms and how would it be if this feature also exist for emails. Yes, it actually does, but not as an inbuilt feature in Gmail, but it is available as an extension in the chrome web store. And that extension is called the Mailtrack.

After you add the extension and installed it, it will ask for quite a few permissions just allow them.

From then it will show you tick marks for the emails that had been delivered and tricks with colour for the emails that have been read.

Thus using this simple browser extension one can easily track emails and their delivery status like they do for the messages in WhatsApp and various other messaging platforms.

Mailtrack is thus one of the best extensions that can be used for tracking emails in Gmail.