Unclutter your gmail inbox
I am getting a lot of mails from Facebook and Pownce these days; hence I was wondering if there is any way to use a filter in gmail to put them in a separate folder.
In gmail, there is no support for folders, they use labels instead, but you can create a filter in such a way to make a label similar to a folder.
Go to gmail settings to create a filter in gmail - In the actions, select “Skip the Inbox (Archive it)” and then “Apply a label”..
I am not sure when this skip the inbox action was added, may be I missed it last time, but this makes it easy to remove those notifications from the inbox…
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neers, but i love the folder option better than the label option. Gmail could work on a folder, like yahoo?
yeah KK, i already see folders in the google docs’ latest release, so I think it is on the way for mail as well…
This was a great idea… Its helping me to maintain the huge number of mails coming from different groups..
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Ravi, good to know it helped u
Great tip Arvind!
I’ve had a gmail account for a while but never bothered to look into all the settings for labels/filters etc. I’ve joined Facebook recently and can see this trick coming in very handy already!
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Thanks Al, welcome to my blog