How to use Filters in Gmail

hi there Jamie Keith here tonight who everyone's having a fantastic night tonight we're gonna take a look little ways to make Gmail better all the time and I want to specifically look at filters in a previous video I've talked about labels and how important they are to help organize your Gmail with all the emails you get and but I find filters brings it to that next level just to make yourself a little bit more productive and let me show you just a little quick tutorial how to create these filters and how to use these filters so I just have a one of my accounts they don't use very much but I'm gonna create some filters for this one so I'm gonna go to my over to my settings and I'm going to show you two different ways to create your filters and I'm gonna click on settings and then I'm gonna go across the top here where it says filters and blocked addresses and right now you can see I have no filters here so I'm just gonna create a

new filter now what I can do is I can put the email from a person that I want to create the filter from or - or subject or has the words or doesn't have I'm just gonna give you an example I'm gonna type in the word YouTube here and what this is gonna do is it's gonna search any email that I have and if it has the word YouTube in it it's going to perform an action and I'm gonna get it where it puts the label on it so I'm just gonna no I'm not gonna click any of these you can see I can add check if it has an attachment or even if it is of a certain size I can filter them so I'm just gonna go ahead and click this here and now I have another list of different things I can do I'm gonna be applying a label in this

one because this kind of takes your labels and even helps everything organize your organize it before even you're having to drag your labels on over so it kind of takes a step out of the way to keep even make you more efficient so as you can see there's a list of different things that you can do here but what I want to show you is the label part here so you can create a new

label rate from here - as I said I've shown you how to create a label from a different way but you can create your label rate in here or you can use ones that you already have so I'm just going to use actually I'm just gonna hit new from here and I'm just gonna call this example 5 because I have you different examples and I'll I'm gonna nest it under here and I'm gonna go create and now the next thing I'm gonna do is I wanted to apply on all the ones that I've already have like if I have messages in my mailbox I want it to go back and apply it to it you can already see it's already picked that it has two matching conversations in it but I'm just gonna click this little box here and I'm gonna create the filter so now when I go back to my inbox they're actually the other thing I'm gonna do is I've shown you how to change the colors I'm going to change this to a different color just so it's easier to see - I'm gonna change it to a I'll just change it to this orange right here alright so I'm gonna go back to my inbox now and you can see the two messages that have the word YouTube in it so if I click on this one and I just sent it from a different account if I try to find the word YouTube there it is so I was able to scan through the messages and find that one word so you can do it from a single word that if you know if it's coming through you can organize your messages like that but you can also organize it through emails and in many different ways the other way to do it that might save you some time is actually if you have a certain message let's say I'll go use this example one right here when you're inside your message you'll notice that if you click these dropdowns right here you have filtered message like this and it's also up here under the more one you see filter message like these two so you can click on these so I'll click on it and you notice what it does right away is it adds the person from is where it's from so this is where it's sent to another account and I can go through and again I can add if I wanted any more words added to it I can go ahead I'm just I'm not gonna add anything to it and I'm gonna hit create

new filter again I can this time I can either create a new label Artoo's I'm gonna choose that the example to one that has the red and I'm gonna apply it to any of the previous ones you can see already it's found for previous ones matching hit create filter and you'll see now that it has if I go into the different ones here it's already filtered different ones if it's connected to that email address so that's how you can use your filters remember if you create your labels first I mean you don't have to create your labels because you can add it at that but it's a great easy way to keep your productivity up inside your email and keep things really labeled easily without you having to do too much once it's set up so I hope you like this little tip about how to making your Gmail better and if you do please give it a thumbs up and remember subscribe to my channel for weekly tech tips I'll see you next time