Gmail Tips, Tricks, and Tools: Streamline Your Inbox, Increase Your Email Productivity, and Save Hours a Week

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Supercharge Gmail to streamline your inbox, increase your email productivity, and save hours a week!

Managing daily email is a time-wasting distraction for many, but in today's connected world it's a business necessity. Gmail Tips, Tricks, and Tools shows you how to take control of your inbox with a simple, four-step process for resolving email overwhelm, designed specifically for Gmail users. This fully illustrated, easy-to-read guide first teaches you to become a Gmail power user and then introduces you to a variety of third-party tools that extend the power of Gmail even further.

After a quick refresher on Gmail basics, Gmail Tips, Tricks, and Tools shows you how to

--Master time-savings techniques for managing email and increasing email productivity

--Organize your Gmail inbox with stars, labels, and filters

--Activate Gmail Labs features, including canned responses, multiple inboxes, quick links, and smart labels

--Maximize the productivity potential of the Inbox by Gmail app with reminders, bundles, snoozing, pinning, and sweeping

--Extend the power of Gmail with third-party tools such as IFTTT and Zapier for email automation, Batched Inbox for batching email arrival, and FollowUpThen for powerful, customizable email reminders

--Discover Gmail browser extensions, such as Sidekick by HubSpot for scheduling and tracking messages, FullContact for analyzing your contacts, ActiveInbox for sophisticated task management, and Gmelius for boosting productivity and enhancing privacy

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Increasing Your Email Productivity

A Four-Step Process for Resolving Email Overwhelm

    Step 1: Identify Your Email Challenges

    Step 2: Analyze the Available Solutions

    Step 3: Perform a One-Time Inbox Cleanup

    Step 4: Implement and Fine-Tune Your New Email System

Cleaning Up Your Inbox

    Three Steps to a Streamlined Inbox

    Reducing Social Media Email Notifications

Processing Your Email

    Deciding How Often to Check Your Inbox

    Creating a System for Managing Your Email

Managing Multiple Email Accounts

Chapter 2 Gmail Basics

Exploring Gmail

Viewing Messages

Replying to Messages

Sending Messages

Managing Messages

Managing Contacts

Chapter 3 Maximizing Gmail Efficiency

Organizing Your Inbox with Stars

Organizing Your Inbox with Labels

    Three-Step Labeling Process

    Creating a New Label

    Applying a Label

    Managing Labels

Working with Filters

    Creating a Filter

    Managing Filters

Delegating Email

    Setting Up Delegation

    Understanding Delegation Limitations

    Canceling Delegation Access

Eliminating Gmail Timewasters

    Using Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts

    Customizing Your Gmail Settings

    Searching in Gmail

    Creating Tasks from Gmail Messages

Chapter 4 Using Gmail Labs Features

Enabling a Gmail Labs Feature

Disabling a Gmail Labs Feature

Using Canned Responses

    Creating a Canned Response

    Composing a Message with a Canned Response

    Editing a Canned Response

Using Multiple Inboxes

Using Quick Links

Exploring Other Gmail Labs Options

    Mark as Read Button

    Preview Pane

    Undo Send

Chapter 5 Using Inbox by Gmail

Getting Started with Inbox by Gmail

    Understanding How Inbox Differs from Gmail

    Viewing Your Inbox

    Using the Inbox Menu

Working with Messages

    Opening Messages

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