Gmail Tips and Tricks

Facilitator: Jennifer Bergland (@jbergland)

Gmail Tips and Tricks

Since Gmail is Google’s oldest product, it also has the most features, including some that you may not be using. This webinar will highlight a few of these features.

Session Topics

  • Personalize Your Experience - Reviewing Your Settings
  • Create a filter using an email as a template
  • AI - Smart compose and reply, grammar and spelling suggestions, and nudges.
  • Add an event from an email
  • Find what you need - utilizing Google search
  • Attach a Google Doc to an email
  • Find help within the application
  • Handle email with ease
    • Undo send, send and archive, mute, and snooze
  • Delegate your email.
  • Send a confidential email.
  • Announcements

Customize your Experience

Change the settings within Gmail to enable most of the features listed on this site.

Create an Event in Gmail

Open Email, then click on Create Event. Change the event details to suit your needs.

Cleaning Up your Inbox

Delete emails before they get to your inbox using a filter. See next image to create the filter that will automatically delete the emails from this email address.

Let Filters Do the Work

Review Google's list of filters

that you might want to try.

SMart Compose and Attach from Drive

It is super easy to attach a document from Google Drive. When you click on send, it will even alert you to change the sharing rights and even better, change them for you!

You will also love the Smart Compose. Let Google help your finish your sentences!

Search within Gmail

It is super easy to find an email if you know how to use the search operators in Gmail. Note in the image above, I was searching for an email from Bruce Ellis, that has an attachment, that was a PDF file. Although I have a lot of email from Bruce in my inbox, this search narrowed down the emails I needed to look through to find what I was searching for.

For more information, check out this site.

Snooze an Email

for a Later time

If you have an email you need to take care of but not right now, then snooze it for a later time. It will appear back at the top of your inbox at the selected time. You can do this from the inbox. Hoover over the email and some options will appear (on the right). Or, if you have the email open, those same options are at the top of the email.

Mute an Email Conversation

If you are included on a conversation and you do not need to be alerted every time someone sends a reply, then mute the conversation.

Do You Need a Nudge?

If someone, including you, hasn't responded to an email that Google thinks requires a response, you will see a message that lets you know when it was sent and a question on whether you want to follow up. Make sure you have turned this feature on in your the Gmail Settings.

Delegate someone to Handle Your Email

Do you need someone to handle your email? Google has made it easy for this to happen without you giving them your login and password.

Confidential Mode

You can send an email that will will expire in the future. You can also send a passcode so that only that individual can open the email.