Comments on: Using Labels and Filters in Gmail

By: Organize your Digital Life

Organize your Digital Life — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:59:20 +0000

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Link Love: There’s an App for That, Internet Names, and more — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:04:25 +0000

[...] Jessica embarks on Operation Unsubscribe. For those newsletters that you should read but never actually do, consider filters to keep them out of your inbox. [...]

By: mudnessa

mudnessa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:33:33 +0000

Thanks so much for sending me the link for this in twitter. I currently use and LOVE labeling all the emails I want to keep. I had used filters in the past but I receive a lot of “take action” emails on issues I do care about and by the time I got around to looking at those I would often miss the commenting period for the issue so I abandoned the use of filtering. I think I may give it a second shot with better guidelines. Thanks again.

By: marybeth

marybeth — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:11:04 +0000

I’m SLOWLY getting a handle on my inbox but I can always use help! These are great tips!

By: H

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:15:09 +0000

These are great tips, I’ll have to try filtering out my personal gmail account. It’s getting pretty wild nowadays.

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:16:21 +0000

Yeah that doesn’t make a group. But if you follow my instructions above you’ll have the option to create that group before you press the “email” link.

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:15:13 +0000

That’s a great question. I’m looking around for a way to do that and I can’t find anything. Google’s support section doesn’t have anything about it either.

My best suggestion is to click “Contacts” in the left sidebar of Gmail. Then go to “All Contacts”. Check the box next to the people you want to send your email to and then press the “email” link.

I also suggest that once Google pops those email address into the TO field of the email you’re going to right that you cut and paste them into the BCC field instead (put yourself in the TO field). This protects people’s email addresses from being shown to other people who they may not want to give their addresses to.

By: Meredith Raffel

Meredith Raffel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:07:20 +0000

PS…what I thought I was doing by naming a label and placing all of my rsvp’s in that label was creating a group. Was I wrong to do that?

By: Meredith Raffel

Meredith Raffel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:05:44 +0000

Carrie – can you help me? I’m new to gmail…and I’ve been planning an event.
Each time an rsvp came in I’d “move” it to a label.
I now would like to send a reminder to all of those who rsvp’d and can’t figure out how to email them all at one time.
Is there some way to click onto that label, check ALL and then email them???
Thank you!!

By: carrie

carrie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:58:31 +0000

Your very welcome. Filters have made a huge change in how I handle my own email (no more checking it on my iPhone from bed at 4am).