Managing an overflowing inbox can feel overwhelming, but Gmail’s labels and filters provide a practical and effective solution. These tools allow you to categorize emails and automate sorting, helping ...

Ever feel like your email inbox is a never-ending black hole of unread messages, promotional clutter, and important emails buried somewhere in the chaos? You’re not alone. Managing emails can be ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

This morning, a Lifehacker intern complained that the new Gmail made it too hard to see labels. Then a Lifehacker editor pitched in that the new Gmail makes it too hard to create filters. Not so, my ...

Hi, there. I’m going to use an email message from my friend Ben to show you how to organize your Gmail inbox a little better. First order of business: never delete messages. We’re going to archive ...

After initially making the decision to try Gmail (see “Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 1: Why I Switched”), I put a lot of thought into what I wanted to get out of email. This required some soul ...

Gmail's powerful filters have long been one of its strongest features, if you're willing to create and nurture them. Now a new Gmail Labs feature is giving every user a few pre-set Smart Labels to ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...

Smart Labels is a just-released function for Gmail inside of Gmail Labs. Once you go in and turn it on, Smart Labels will start looking at your incoming mail and will assign it as applicable to Bulk, ...

Back in September, Gmail introduced a useful way to further refine search results on Android, and those filters now appear when viewing labels. Opening a label or default folder (e.g, Starred, Sent) ...

My Gmail inbox was always a mess. I'd spend time deleting and sorting, only for the same flood of emails to come back within days. Promotions, newsletters, and random alerts buried everything that ...

Google, apparently having trouble persuading some non-power users to embrace Gmail's label feature, announces "smart labels" to try to to bring Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...