Improve your experience with these 6 new Gmail features.
Gmail, Google’s email service, has dominated the industry since it launched in 2004. Despite being much older, Yahoo Mail, Gmail’s only significant rival, falls well behind in terms of popularity. Prior to the launch of Gmail, it and Hotmail ruled the market. While Yahoo has 225 million active users, Gmail has at least 1.5 billion. The two are no longer comparable to one another.
The success of Gmail is generally credited to its straightforward, approachable layout. Additionally, it has a huge number of functions that greatly enhance emailing. Among our favorite features are automatic replies, email filtering and categorization, Gmail chat, and others.
However, people are ignorant of several intriguing features that Gmail offers. Utilizing these undiscovered features will improve your productivity and the overall Gmail browsing experience. Some of the functions among them include email scheduling, setting your default view, and displaying email previews.
For both personal and business use, Gmail is quite helpful. Your life will be a little easier than before if you become familiar with as many of its aspects as you can. Here are Gmail’s top features that you may not be aware of.
1. Change how emails are shown
One technicality unites the bulk of Yahoo mail customers who convert to Gmail. Compared to Yahoo Mail, Gmail shows less emails each scroll. The obvious explanation is that Yahoo Mail’s default view has less padding than Gmail’s default display. The attachment for each email is also shown on a separate line.
Many users are not aware that changing this appearance is simple and may be done in Gmail’s Settings. Three Density settings are available in Gmail: Default, Comfortable, and Compact. When you use Gmail for the first time, you see the default view. The Comfortable function in Gmail hides the attachments for each email, saving space each line. In order to make your email list as small as possible, Gmail takes things a step further with Compact by deleting superfluous padding from each email line.
2. Turn on the Reading Pane.
You may read your emails using Gmail’s Reading Pane function without having to click on each one individually and repeatedly go back to your inbox.
When Reading Pane is enabled, your email is split into two halves. Your inbox list is shown on one side, and the email you clicked, content is shown on the other. Additionally, you can choose where the Reading Pane will appear. It can be above the inbox or beneath it.
3. You can set up emails at any moment.
When you press the Send button, every email is immediately sent. Gmail, on the other hand, enables you to plan the sending of your emails for a later time. You can tell Gmail to deliver your email at a specific time or date in the future using email scheduling. You can only schedule one email at a time, therefore this feature is constrained.
This function is quite helpful when working after your shift. If your manager finds out that you occasionally work after hours, you can avoid them. You should consider scheduling your emails for the following business day if you don’t want to bother your clients after hours.
4. Ignore less important emails
You can snooze an email in Gmail to temporarily remove it from your inbox.
You may decide when snoozed emails will return in Gmail. You could pick the time and day that you wanted to snooze the emails.
5. Stop sending your boss nasty emails.
The email was always taken to be eternal. Once sent, it used to be impossible to retract. Back then, you could be sure that the next time your boss entered his mailbox, he would read your angry email. Thank goodness, thanks to Gmail’s Undo Send function, this is no longer the case.
You can cancel a sent email on Gmail for a brief period of time. An undo button will momentarily show up in the bottom-left corner of the page after you send an email. Gmail’s ability to let you determine how long you may undo emails is much better. For access to this feature, go to Settings > General > Undo > Send.
6. Utilize labels and subfolders to organize your inbox.
One of Gmail’s most noticeable aspects that users may like is the clean UI. Your emails can be categorized in Gmail using labels and subfolders.
Filters can also be used to label emails or to assist Gmail move them automatically into subfolders. You won’t ever miss a crucial email while using the app this way.
Edited by- Janhvi