Become a Gmail Expert


Google has released a Gmail Tips and Tricks (called Gmail Ninja Guide) to save time, increase your productivity, and manage your email efficiently. The tips are divided into four different sections: White belt, Green belt, Black belt and Gmail Master.


White Beltt Become A Gmail Ninja Now

  1. Use stars to indicate a note is special.
  2. Reply by chat.
  3. Organize your email with labels.
  4. Clean up your inbox using “Move to” — it works just like flders.
  5. Search your mail instead of sorting.
  6. Archive messages to tidy up your inbox without deleting anything.
  7. Import your email and contacts from your old address.
  8. Spice up your inbox with a theme.
  9. Join forces to rid the world of spam.

Green Beltt Become A Gmail Ninja Now

  1. Talk face-to-face with video chat.
  2. Use Tasks as a handy to-do list.
  3. Use filters to control the flow of incoming mail.
  4. Highlight important emails using filters and colored labels.
  5. Send email from your phone.
  6. Preview attachments without downloading them.
  7. Avoid email gaffes with Undo Send.
  8. Tell your friends what you’re up to with a status message.
  9. Never forget an attachment again.
  10. Tell everyone when you’ll be back with vacation responder.
  11. Nothing says “I’m excited” like a bouncing happy face emoticon.

Black Beltt Become A Gmail Ninja Now

  1. Get through your mail faster with keyboard shortcuts.
  2. Use search operators to find the exact message you’re looking for.
  3. Filter your email with personalized email addresses.
  4. See which messages were sent right to you.
  5. Make Gmail go where the internet doesn’t.
  6. Quickly add multiple attachments to an email.
  7. Add “(EOM)” to the subject of one-liner messages.
  8. Set up canned responses instead of typing the same reply over and over again.
  9. Click less and watch more using YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp previews.
  10. Use quick links to get anywhere in Gmail with one click.
  11. Send and archive in one step.

Gmail Mastert Become A Gmail Ninja Now

  1. Bring Google Calendar and Docs to Gmail.
  2. Send SMS text messages right from Gmail.
  3. Forget to sign out of a public computer? Sign out remotely.
  4. Personalize your RSS feeds in web clips.
  5. Access your mail via https.
  6. Search for superstars by name.
  7. Use Gmail on your own domain.

Google has also made a PDF versiont Become A Gmail Ninja Now of the list for you to print out and “pin to your wall,” which would very useful.

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