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Here you will find all the Gmail Tips posted to GmailTips.com. I hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail!

Gmail Tips is honored to have been listed as one of PC Magazine's "99 Undiscovered Web Sites"

Welcome to "Gmail Tips: The Complete Collection" Here you will find all the Gmail Tips posted to GmailTips.com. I hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail! Note that his is an archive of Tips and articles written since May, 2004. As such, specific features, issues, and opinions many have since been changed, updated, or corrected. In the near future, I will try to indicate on each affected article or Tip where changes may have occurred, and where later Tips preempt previous Tips. Until then, just sit back and enjoy the read! News update: More Tips Added! Well, it's been a busy year at JimsTips.com, so after far too long, I've updated this page to include all of the Gmail Tips that appear on JimsTips.com. I'll be adding more soon!

Gmail Tips Table of Contents Gmail Beta: First Impressions How I 'Imported' archived email into Gmail Gmail Tip #1: All About Labels Gmail Tip #2: 'Check' Your Messages Gmail Tip #3: How to Maintain 'Notes' Gmail Tip #4: Formatting Your Name Gmail Tip #5: The 'Plus' Side of Gmail Gmail Tip #6: Define a Signature! Gmail Tip #7: Quickly Addressing a Message Gmail Tip #8: Working With Lots of Email Gmail Tip #9: New Mail Notification! Gmail Tip #10: Some Tips About Conversations Gmail Tip #11: Connecting Securely Gmail Tip #12: 'Archiving' Explained Gmail Tip #13: Some More About Conversations Gmail Tip #14: What Happens To Sent Messages? Gmail Tip #15: New feature! Highlighting on/off! Gmail Tip #16: New feature! View or Download for attached images Gmail Tip #17: Advanced Search - View Multiple Labels Gmail Tip #18: Some Forwarding Idiosyncracies Gmail Tip #19: Advanced Search - 'Query Words' Gmail Tip #20: Why some attachments bounce Gmail Tip #21: 'Official' Features and Bugs Status Page Gmail Tip #22: Advanced Search - Multi-Labeled and Un-Labeled Messages Gmail Tip #23: Cleaning Your Contacts Gmail Tip #24: New feature! Import Contacts Gmail Tip #25: Find Your Unread Messages Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group! Gmail Tip #27: Adding Hotmail Contacts to Gmail Gmail Tip #28: 'Gmail Notifier' released to beta! Gmail Tip #29: A Small Quirk With Gmail Notify's 'mailto:' Handler Gmail Tip #30: Removing a Label Gmail Tip #31: Improved and New Contacts Features! Gmail Tip #32: Drafts! Gmail Tip #33: Auto-forward received Gmail! Gmail Tip #34: Gmail on your Palm! Gmail Tip #35: Gmail on your Palm! - Part 2 Gmail Tip #36: Some Email Management Tips Gmail Tip #37: New Feature! Image Attachment Thumbnails Gmail Tip #38: Google Gmail Minibrowser Gmail Tip #39: New Feature! Gmail From Most Any Browser! Gmail Tip #40: New Feature! Rich formatting! Gmail Tip #41: How Much Space Do I Have? Gmail Tip #42: A More Worldly View Gmail Tip #43: Notes in Just Two Clicks! Gmail Tip #44: Using An Email Client Gmail Tip #45: Backing Up Your Gmail Account Gmail Tip #46: Creating a Map Repository Gmail Tip #47: Gmail Adds Chat! Gmail Tip #48: Reply Without Scrolling Gmail Tip #49: Moving the Chat Quick Contacts Box Gmail Tip #50: Changing Subject Text When Replying or Forwarding Gmail Tip #51: Keyboard Shortcuts Gmail Tip #52: Can I "Delete all" Spam? Gmail Tip #53: How Can I View Outlook Stationery In Gmail? Gmail Tip #54: New Feature! Select ALL conversations Gmail Tip #55: Excluding Chat from Search Results

Gmail Beta: First Impressions The other day, I received an "invitation" to beta test Google's new "Gmail" email service. After having tried and used literally dozens of web-based email services over the years, I decided to see what the buzz was all about, so I followed the Invitation instructions, and within a couple minutes, I had a new Google Gmail account. After working with this account for several days, I have discovered some things that I like about it as well as some things that I don't. Read on for the lowdown... First off, please note that this article is based on the pre-release beta of Gmail, so presumably, the public release will have additions, changes, and improvements. Also, I am using Internet Explorer to test this. Gmail supports most of the popular browsers, and even a few obscure ones, so if you use an alternate browser, be aware that your mileage may vary. Webmail While Web-based email is nothing new, Gmail introduces some new and unique concepts. Managing email has become very easy while at the same time having powerful tools to find and review information. I have used quite a number of email clients and web-based email accounts over the years. I have tried email accounts at Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Onebox, ZipLip, FastMail, AOL, WebBox, and literally dozens more. Some are good, some are better, and some are plain junk. All the while, I have kept a "vanity" email account with NetIdentity (who uses "SecurePath" technology), and though I do pay for their account, their web-based email interface is very simplistic and the space is limited. So I continually look for "better" solutions. But why use Webmail when I have a good client in Outlook? To me, a personal web-based email account is essential because I do not always have access to my home PC. Sure clients like Outlook are great, but if you can't access your PC, you simply can't easily access your email. Gmail on one hand is just another free email service, it really has the potential to become the next "killer app", because it has some innovations not found elsewhere. Gmail does, however, need some polishing in a number of areas before it's really "ready for primetime". I'm going to first walk you through some of the "features" that make up Gmail. Some are typical, and some are unique. Then I'll detail some suggestions that, in my opinion, would make the service significantly better.

 

Here you will find all the Gmail Tips posted to GmailTips.com. I hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail!

Gmail Tips is honored to have been listed as one of PC Magazine's "99 Undiscovered Web Sites"

Welcome to "Gmail Tips: The Complete Collection" Here you will find all the Gmail Tips posted to GmailTips.com. I hope they help you in your continued use of Gmail! Note that his is an archive of Tips and articles written since May, 2004. As such, specific features, issues, and opinions many have since been changed, updated, or corrected. In the near future, I will try to indicate on each affected article or Tip where changes may have occurred, and where later Tips preempt previous Tips. Until then, just sit back and enjoy the read! News update: More Tips Added! Well, it's been a busy year at JimsTips.com, so after far too long, I've updated this page to include all of the Gmail Tips that appear on JimsTips.com. I'll be adding more soon!

Gmail Tips Table of Contents Gmail Beta: First Impressions How I 'Imported' archived email into Gmail Gmail Tip #1: All About Labels Gmail Tip #2: 'Check' Your Messages Gmail Tip #3: How to Maintain 'Notes' Gmail Tip #4: Formatting Your Name Gmail Tip #5: The 'Plus' Side of Gmail Gmail Tip #6: Define a Signature! Gmail Tip #7: Quickly Addressing a Message Gmail Tip #8: Working With Lots of Email Gmail Tip #9: New Mail Notification! Gmail Tip #10: Some Tips About Conversations Gmail Tip #11: Connecting Securely Gmail Tip #12: 'Archiving' Explained Gmail Tip #13: Some More About Conversations Gmail Tip #14: What Happens To Sent Messages? Gmail Tip #15: New feature! Highlighting on/off! Gmail Tip #16: New feature! View or Download for attached images Gmail Tip #17: Advanced Search - View Multiple Labels Gmail Tip #18: Some Forwarding Idiosyncracies Gmail Tip #19: Advanced Search - 'Query Words' Gmail Tip #20: Why some attachments bounce Gmail Tip #21: 'Official' Features and Bugs Status Page Gmail Tip #22: Advanced Search - Multi-Labeled and Un-Labeled Messages Gmail Tip #23: Cleaning Your Contacts Gmail Tip #24: New feature! Import Contacts Gmail Tip #25: Find Your Unread Messages Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group! Gmail Tip #27: Adding Hotmail Contacts to Gmail Gmail Tip #28: 'Gmail Notifier' released to beta! Gmail Tip #29: A Small Quirk With Gmail Notify's 'mailto:' Handler Gmail Tip #30: Removing a Label Gmail Tip #31: Improved and New Contacts Features! Gmail Tip #32: Drafts! Gmail Tip #33: Auto-forward received Gmail! Gmail Tip #34: Gmail on your Palm! Gmail Tip #35: Gmail on your Palm! - Part 2 Gmail Tip #36: Some Email Management Tips Gmail Tip #37: New Feature! Image Attachment Thumbnails Gmail Tip #38: Google Gmail Minibrowser Gmail Tip #39: New Feature! Gmail From Most Any Browser! Gmail Tip #40: New Feature! Rich formatting! Gmail Tip #41: How Much Space Do I Have? Gmail Tip #42: A More Worldly View Gmail Tip #43: Notes in Just Two Clicks! Gmail Tip #44: Using An Email Client Gmail Tip #45: Backing Up Your Gmail Account Gmail Tip #46: Creating a Map Repository Gmail Tip #47: Gmail Adds Chat! Gmail Tip #48: Reply Without Scrolling Gmail Tip #49: Moving the Chat Quick Contacts Box Gmail Tip #50: Changing Subject Text When Replying or Forwarding Gmail Tip #51: Keyboard Shortcuts Gmail Tip #52: Can I "Delete all" Spam? Gmail Tip #53: How Can I View Outlook Stationery In Gmail? Gmail Tip #54: New Feature! Select ALL conversations Gmail Tip #55: Excluding Chat from Search Results

Gmail Beta: First Impressions The other day, I received an "invitation" to beta test Google's new "Gmail" email service. After having tried and used literally dozens of web-based email services over the years, I decided to see what the buzz was all about, so I followed the Invitation instructions, and within a couple minutes, I had a new Google Gmail account. After working with this account for several days, I have discovered some things that I like about it as well as some things that I don't. Read on for the lowdown... First off, please note that this article is based on the pre-release beta of Gmail, so presumably, the public release will have additions, changes, and improvements. Also, I am using Internet Explorer to test this. Gmail supports most of the popular browsers, and even a few obscure ones, so if you use an alternate browser, be aware that your mileage may vary. Webmail While Web-based email is nothing new, Gmail introduces some new and unique concepts. Managing email has become very easy while at the same time having powerful tools to find and review information. I have used quite a number of email clients and web-based email accounts over the years. I have tried email accounts at Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Onebox, ZipLip, FastMail, AOL, WebBox, and literally dozens more. Some are good, some are better, and some are plain junk. All the while, I have kept a "vanity" email account with NetIdentity (who uses "SecurePath" technology), and though I do pay for their account, their web-based email interface is very simplistic and the space is limited. So I continually look for "better" solutions. But why use Webmail when I have a good client in Outlook? To me, a personal web-based email account is essential because I do not always have access to my home PC. Sure clients like Outlook are great, but if you can't access your PC, you simply can't easily access your email. Gmail on one hand is just another free email service, it really has the potential to become the next "killer app", because it has some innovations not found elsewhere. Gmail does, however, need some polishing in a number of areas before it's really "ready for primetime". I'm going to first walk you through some of the "features" that make up Gmail. Some are typical, and some are unique. Then I'll detail some suggestions that, in my opinion, would make the service significantly better.

 

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