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.
- Use stars to indicate a note is special.
- Reply by chat.
- Organize your email with labels.
- Clean up your inbox using “Move to” — it works just like flders.
- Search your mail instead of sorting.
- Archive messages to tidy up your inbox without deleting anything.
- Import your email and contacts from your old address.
- Spice up your inbox with a theme.
- Join forces to rid the world of spam.
- Talk face-to-face with video chat.
- Use Tasks as a handy to-do list.
- Use filters to control the flow of incoming mail.
- Highlight important emails using filters and colored labels.
- Send email from your phone.
- Preview attachments without downloading them.
- Avoid email gaffes with Undo Send.
- Tell your friends what you’re up to with a status message.
- Never forget an attachment again.
- Tell everyone when you’ll be back with vacation responder.
- Nothing says “I’m excited” like a bouncing happy face emoticon.
- Get through your mail faster with keyboard shortcuts.
- Use search operators to find the exact message you’re looking for.
- Filter your email with personalized email addresses.
- See which messages were sent right to you.
- Make Gmail go where the internet doesn’t.
- Quickly add multiple attachments to an email.
- Add “(EOM)” to the subject of one-liner messages.
- Set up canned responses instead of typing the same reply over and over again.
- Click less and watch more using YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and Yelp previews.
- Use quick links to get anywhere in Gmail with one click.
- Send and archive in one step.
- Bring Google Calendar and Docs to Gmail.
- Send SMS text messages right from Gmail.
- Forget to sign out of a public computer? Sign out remotely.
- Personalize your RSS feeds in web clips.
- Access your mail via https.
- Search for superstars by name.
- Use Gmail on your own domain.
Google has also made a PDF version
of the list for you to print out and “pin to your wall,” which would very useful.

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