Learn How Gmail Filters Help Organize an Inbox

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Advantages of using Gmail filters

• Help users “prioritize” emails or messages from important colleagues, clients, or friends. 
• Save all of a user’s receipts, payment confirmations, and bills in one place.
• Automatically Star important messages to archive like tracking numbers, order numbers, etc., which users can refer to later.
• Automatically forward or answer certain messages with a custom, prewritten template.
• Direct less essential emails to one place so users can read them in their own time instead of those messages filling up their inboxes. 

1. Creating Gmail filters directly in the inbox

• Sender and recipient (in case of multiple addresses)
• Subject’s content
• Keywords in the email’s body
• Size of the email
• Sent or received date
• Emails with an attachment

2. Creating Gmail filters in a message

• First, they need to open Gmail.
• Then, check the checkbox next to the email of their choice and tap on More.
• After that, they must click Filter messages like these. 
• At this point, users can also enter any additional filter criteria.
• Finally, tap Create filter. 

What’s more

• First, users need to open Gmail.
• Click Settings at the top right and then go to See all settings. 
• Select Filters and Blocked Addresses
• Then, users must choose the filter they want to edit or delete.
• Tap Edit (to change a filter) or Delete (to remove a filter). If users want to change (or edit) a filter, they must press Continue when they finish editing it. 
• Finally, tap Update filter or OK. 

By Monica Green

I am specialised in latest tech and tech discoveries.