Must Try Five Tips and Tricks about GMail

Posted by Microments 15 August, 2009

#1 The power of plus ( + )

Gmail has a hidden feature according to which while giving your email address to someone you can suffix ‘+groupname’ after your id, e.g. while giving it to some of your business relation you can give your email address as ‘yourid+business@gmail.com’ instead of ‘yourid@gmail.com’, or while giving it to a family member you can add ‘+family’ in it, this allows a quick access, its just like adding an extra tag for quick search.

#2 The Default @gmail

While sending an email to another Gmail user, you can simply send the mail to his id, i.e. you can skip ‘@gmail.com’ and still the mail gets delivered to the exact recipient.

#3 Keyboard Shortcuts

Ever felt like having Keyboard shortcuts for your email client, well for Gmail, you can also bookmark it to stay updated.

#4 Dots in between your Gmail id

The dots in your Gmail address actually are meaningless, ‘yourname.lastname@gmail.com’ is same as ‘yournamelastname@gmail.com’, moreover the id part is not case sensitive, that means ‘YOurnaMELAstname@gmail.com’ is also the same for Gmail.

#5 Some Search Tips -

‘after:year/month/date’ , ‘before:year/month/date’ can be used for finding the mails sent or received after or before the specified date.
‘OR‘ can be used as follows ‘from:A OR from:B’ where A and B are senders, can also be used as ‘to:A OR to:B’, this will display all the messages sent to A or B.
‘-‘ (Hyphen) Is used to make exclusions, like ‘Chocolate-Lollypops’ will display the mails which have word ‘Chocolates’ but not ‘Lollypops’.
‘filename:‘ type in filename:filename.doc will display the mails which have filename.doc as attachment in them.