8 Tips to Get More Out of Gmail

hi there Jamie Keith here tonight at teachers tech hope you're having a great night tonight you want to go over eight overlooked features that are in Gmail so these tips will hopefully speed up things for you and just make things a lot more efficient so have you ever wanted to know if a person has opened up your email well Gmail has it has this built right into it what you have to do let's say you compose your message just go down to the bottom right hand corner under more options and you can see there's a request read receipt so make sure that's on so I'll just click it make sure the check mark is there so you can see I have it selected so when you send the receipt now when they open it you'll be notified with the receipt back if you don't have that option or it doesn't work make sure you check with your G suite administrator they might have some it might have it turned off for you an

easy way to attach files from your computer rather than using the attach down here just go to your files select them and drag them over and drop and they'll simply attach the to your email ready to send off so maybe you're getting some emails in a different language well then take advantage of the gmail translate tool that's built right into it so in this case if I view my original message that before I translate it you can see it was in a Spanish one and I have if you look at the drop downs you have a lot of different languages to choose from here that when the message comes in it can take it and output it to all those same languages so in this case if I wanted to view it to English I can simply click on this one and I can have it set to automatically each time if I knew I was getting a lot of messages in a certain language I could have it defaulting to that so I wouldn't have to click on anything if you're trying to find it if I go to a different message just click on the little more here and you can see that the Translate message here will bring it up right across the top and you can translate any of these into a different language if you wish

don't forget about customization in the labs so I have over here on my left hand side this calendar so this will connect to my Google calendars I like this because I can just quickly get a glance when I'm in my Gmail without going to my calendar and I can add things right away from here from some quick ads to add this just simply go up over to your settings up here and I'm going to go to settings and then make sure you check out labs now there's other labs here to check out too that can save you time go ahead and play with them but look for the Google Calendar gadget make sure that's enabled and after you enable it hit to Save Changes and then it's gonna appear back over here if it's not there it'll be hidden under the gadget so just simply click those three little dots and it's gonna pop up right there for you Priority Inbox is a way to kind of

customize your look of importance of your messages so what Priority Inbox is I'm going to go back to my settings up here and once I'm in there I'm just going to go to my inbox and you can see I'm under default right now so I'm gonna click on Priority Inbox and it's gonna break things into sections so it's going to be important and unread first I then it's going to be my starred and empty this is empty then everything else so if I click on my options you can see how much you want to show of each of them here so you can say I want to show because you'll have more than five or more than ten so you pick how many you want to show so once you have any of these have I put an order go to save and when I go back to mine you can see now on my important unread are gonna be first and then I have my starred ones everything else so again you can still customize the customize those a bit more just by looking at the just take a look at the settings of each one so if you find

yourself emailing the same people all the time and you're doing the same message over and over you might want to make a group out of this so just simply go up to the top where it says mail click on the little arrow go to contacts now you can see I have a number of groups already made in here so I'm just gonna make a new group right here and I'm going to call this test one I'm just going to hit OK then I'm gonna click on test one and I'm just gonna add a couple people really fast to this here and I'm gonna add one more so you can I could keep adding more and more people but I'm just gonna stick with those two for the example I'm gonna hit add so now if I go over to mail and I hit compose and I start typing test one I'll give it a second here test one there it is so sometimes it takes a few seconds to click in and when I click on it all I have to do is send the message now and it'll send to the group so if you had 10 15 or your class you can simply make that group and it's going to save you a lot of time

keep your date organized right in Gmail by using tasks so again click rate up by the mail here you can see there's tasks so when this pops up you can see I already had a number of different tasks in here but I can create a new task really quickly just by I'll type an example and what I'll do is you can see when I click on the little arrow here I can type more to it I can give it a due date which will be I can set a notification to this one I can make lists on this one when it's done I can check it and it'll be crossed out like this so if I go back to the list you can see that it's already crossed out you can do this real quickly you can add a message to these lists so if I add this one if I just go up to the more up here you can see I have add two tasks so it quickly takes an email as it's a task and if I go to it you can see there's a related email rating here I can put my due date on it this is the way I like to use at most because a lot of my messages come through and I just want to put it to a task right away lastly if you

haven't have taken a look at inbox yet go ahead and just go up I already have it open but use inbox by google. com sometimes you'll have the app open to it I don't have it on this one but just go ahead and type it in and you'll get to inbox so you'll see it's a little different way than Gmail all my messages are in here the exact same messages but it has some different features way to manage everything I'll attach a video that I have the breaks down how to use this just take a look in the card top in the top right or just take a look down in my description and I'll put - a link there so I hope you like these tips tonight if you have please hit that like button share with a few other people remember I do these weekly tech tips and if you like what you saw tonight please subscribe to my channel thanks for watching and I'll see you next time