7 Great Things You Can Do With Gmail Multiple Inboxes

07 February 2009 Categories: information overload

Gmail multiple inboxes

Gmail lab feature “Multiple Inboxes” allows you to have more than one ‘inbox’ in your default Gmail view. You can have up to 5 additional panels and set them to display labels, your starred messages, drafts or any search you want next to your inbox. Here is how to start using Multiple Inboxes and 7 great things you can do with it.

Enabling Multiple Inboxes and setting panels

First, to enable Multiple Inboxes go to settings > labs > enable multiple inboxes

enable multiple inboxes

Enable multiple inboxes

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How to Keep Track of Tasks That You Assign by Email [Best Practice]

15 January 2009 Categories: Effectiveness

Have you ever sent an email asking a coworker to schedule a meeting, or a document for review to your boss, but remind bothered whether he will remember to do that or just read your email and forget?

Here is how to handle these situations. whenever you send an important task by email and want to be peaceful minded about it getting done, you should gain back control by scheduling a reminder. here is how to do that:

  1. Include yourself as a BCC (that is, add your email address in the BCC filed). That way, you’ll get a copy of the email without the other recipients knowing about it. Then,
  2. bcc-yourself

  3. Move that email from the inbox to your calendar. Save it as an event a few days later (enough time for the other person to complete the task).
  4. task-in-calender

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