Gmail Tip: search for unread emails

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If you’re anything like me, you often end up with a lot of extra “spam” type mail from mailing lists, etc, that you don’t end up reading. To quickly find unread messages, simply search for “is:unread” in the search box.  You can also double this up to find only unread messages in the inbox by… Read more »

Gmail Tip: Shorthand Searching

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Gmail has it’s own shorthand to use when searching the built-in labels. This makes it much quicker to type in your search query. By using the following shorthand in the Search box, you can easily specify the label you wish to search. You use l to represent the term label followed by a colon then… Read more »