10 Most Powerful Gmail app features

January 8, 2023

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Gmail is owned by Google and the app has so many features that are underused by some users. Here are s10most powerful Gmail app features

The undo feature: Have you ever had that feeling that you sent a wrong mail or there is an error in the mail? Well, the Gmail app has the undo features. From the settings, go to General and then go to ‘undo send’. You an choose 30 second. Next time, you send a mail, the ‘undo’ feature button will pop up at the left button.
Schedule your email: If you feel you might forget to send an email, you can schedule the mail to the time you want the receiver to get it. Close to where you have the send option, click on the down arrow (for laptop view) or the three dots at the side (phone view). Click on ‘schedule send’. It will give you some available dates and option to customize your date and time too.
Customize your replies: You might have gotten tired of the way you reply same messages. Well, Gmail made it easier to do that. Go to settings>Advanced>Enable Templates. This is the one of the most powerful Gmail features.
Finding a message: Finding a long-time message can be very difficult especially when you only have light memories of the content. The search function makes this easy. Simply type into the search box

From: x to: x for the person

After: x or before: x for the date or period (it may not be an exact date)

Size: x for large emails

Has: attachment combine the terms to fine tune your search

Ignore those annoying conversations and email thread
In an email thread where everyone keeps using ‘reply all’. You can mute it to stop disturbing you by doing the following

Open the email

Click on the 3 dots at the top left

Click mute future replies and it will be archived (but you can still find them if needed)

Use shortcuts: Instead of moving around your desktop, save yourself time by using keyboard shortcuts

Add a cc format text, insert links + more

Settings

All settings>general>Keyboard shortcuts- to add your favorite shortcuts

Label: You can find label at the right side of the mail. Label helps you categorize your mails for easy ready by filtering them especially when you have so many mails (personal and group) mails.
Snooze an email: If you have an email you don’t want to deal with now, you can snooze it an set a reminder for it.
Send a confidential email: This is a feature that makes you email confidential while disabling the feature such as copying, printing, forwarding and downloading by the recipient. To enable this feature, you will need to tap on the ‘lock’ symbol while sending a new email.
Use offline mode: Gmail has a handy feature that lets you read and reply to your emails even when offline. However, you will need to turn it on by following these few steps. When you go to settings, click on ‘all settings’ and then click on ‘offline’. Once in the offline tab, select ‘Enable offline mail’. You can select various options of how you want your offline access to be set up before saving the changes.

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