Inbox Settings

Taft Gmail Settings Recommendations- Inbox

From your Gmail, click on the Gear Icon and select Settings. Select the Inbox tab.

Make sure you click Save Changes at the bottom of the page when finished.

• Inbox type:

  • Default (recommended to start)

  • Important First:  If you choose "Important first," your inbox will be separated into two sections: "Important" at the top, and "Everything else" at the bottom.

    • Learn more how Gmail decides which emails to mark as important.

  • Unread First: If you choose "Unread first," your inbox will be separated into two sections: "Unread" at the top and "Everything else" at the bottom.

  • Starred First: If you choose "Starred first," your inbox will be separated into two sections: "Starred" at the top, and "Everything else" at the bottom.

  • Priority Inbox: If you choose "Priority Inbox" your inbox will be separated into multiple sections. You can choose which sections you want to show, including "Important and unread," "Starred," "Everything else," or a label that you have made.

• Categories: Choose which message categories to show as inbox tabs. Other messages will appear in the Primary tab. Deselect all categories to go back to your old inbox.

  • Recommend to uncheck all but “Primary”

• Importance markers: 

  • Choose Show Markers - Show a marker by messages marked as important.

  • Choose Use my past actions to predict which messages are important to me.

• Filtered mail: 

  • Choose Don't override filters

Make sure you click Save Changes at the bottom of the page when finished.