Few tips on using Gmail:

Learn the shortcuts Press Shift + ? and you’ll see a lightbox open up with all the shortcuts, but I’ve found this to be very unusable. I recommend using this list here, where you can search.

Some of my most commonly used ones:

c – compose g+ i – Go to inbox g + a – Go to all message # – Delete a message / – Search n – Next message p – Previous message j/k – navigation – up/down e – archive enter – open message x – select conversation l – labels r – reply

There are plenty more, but those are the ones I use mostly.

Forward all email to one location I’ve three active Gmail accouts, personal, work and automated. First two are fairly obvious, the third is for signing up to websites I don’t want to give my personal info to. This way I don’t get spammed in my personal email. All three forward to a single account that I check. Haven’t visited the other two in probably weeks. Gmail also allows you to send email from that address, so you can always send email to yours from your work email.

Turn on Google Labs There are dozens of Labs and most are very useful.

Use labels + filters I think labels is my favorite Google labs feature. Currently I’ve ‘Reference’, ‘Waiting’, ‘Work’ and few named project labels on my list. By itself labels is pretty useful, if tedious, but combine that with filters, they become incredibly useful.

For example, all my work emails are tagged “work” automatically since one of my filters catches all email coming to my work email and tags it work. Same for all outgoing email from my work account, it automatically gets tagged. I also have couple work based filters, but I don’t really find them that useful.

Also all my outgoing email gets tagged “Waiting” indicating that I’m waiting for a response from someone.

Hope you found them useful.