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gmail provide several different types of inbox
these inbox types let you view your messages
in different orders and you can play around them
and see which one you like best depending on the way you like to
manage your emails during the course of the day
So, all the Inbox types are available by clicking on the down arrow
next to inbox right here on the Gmail interface
and you'll notice that there are five different types: default
is default and that puts the newest message at the top
regardless of whether it's read or not the newest message is at the top and the
oldest message is at the bottom
another type is
important first. Now what this does
is Gmail tries to learn
what messages are important based on a few different criteria
based on how often you interact with the sender
based on keywords in the subject or in the body
now you can teach Gmail
if something's important or not by clicking on this little yellow chevron
next to the message so
if something is important go ahead and mark it as important if it's not
you can click the chevron and Gmail will say okay it's not important. Over time
it will learn your habits and it will learn your patterns
and I've heard from some folks that it can be very, very accurate
unread first is one that I tend to use the most
and this puts all your unread messages at the top
so the newest unread is at the top and the oldest unread is at the bottom
everything else that's read is down here past this divider
and this also in in newest at the top, oldest at the bottom
so you could have a message that's actually newer
down here but since you read it, it'll put it down here
this is good for making sure that you read everything and you are assigning
priority to your message correctly. I tend to use this the most just to make sure
nothing sneaks up on me during the day
another option is starred first
now star is kinda like important but instead of
the Google algorithm signing importance, you do it manually
so the way you add a star is by clicking on the star
icon next to a message see you just manually click the ones that are
important to you
and then if you wait a little while or if you go ahead and
refresh your Inbox it will move those into Starred. So all the starred messages are
here
and everything else is below and again the default is for
that newest starred message to be on the top and the oldest starred message to be on
the bottom
now if you noticed there's...when I click the star
it shows me one color but if you go into your settings
and you go about halfway down
you'll notice that there's many different types stars so
in use is just the yellow one but if you want you can drag and drop
the actual stars you'd like to use or you can use my these presets: four
stars, or all the stars
to get the exact color combination
or icons that you'd like. So in this case, let's say I want to use two different star
colors
and then a question mark and a check. So once you get
the stars aligned, no pun intended, exactly how you want
go ahead and scroll down and hit Save Changes
now when you click
every time you click it'll give you one of the different star options
so I can make this one a question mark and again if I wait long enough
or if I hit refresh that moves the starred one
will go into my starred section. So another view
is priority inbox. This is kinda cool because is a combination of important,
unread and starred. So anything that's unread
and the Google algorithm has marked as important will be here in the top
section
the middle section are things that are starred. So, you manually mark these
as important and everything else is down here at the bottom
newest at the top, oldest at the bottom, read and unread are intermixed down here in this
section
so again import and unread at the top, ones that you manually designated as
important in the middle
and everything else in chronological order at the bottom so
play around with which view you like best. Everyone has their preference
I have another video that talks about how to use the settings along with some Labs
to make it look like Outlook or Lotus Notes if you're
migrating from one of those two platforms but I invite you to play
around
and pick what works best for you. If you like these videos please hit subscribe!
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