Unveiling Gmail’s Hidden Treasures: 5 hacks to make you an Email Superhero

In today’s fast-paced digital world, email management is a vital skill that can set you apart in both your personal and professional spheres. Gmail, being one of the most widely used email platforms, offers a plethora of features and functionalities beyond the basic sending and receiving of emails. By leveraging the right strategies and techniques, you can become an email master, effortlessly streamlining your inbox and supercharging your productivity.

Send a private and secure email, protecting sensitive information with confidentiality

Gmail’s Confidential Mode is a feature that allows you to send emails with an extra layer of security and control. When you send an email using Confidential Mode, the recipient will not be able to

• Forward the email
• Print the email
• Download the email
• Copy the email content

To enable it, tap on the ‘lock’ symbol while sending a new email.

Schedule your email to send at a later time

Scheduling an email to send at a later time is a feature in Gmail that allows you to compose an email and specify a future date and time for it to be sent. This feature is useful when:

• You want to send an email outside of work hours or at a specific time.
• You want to avoid sending emails during peak hours or when the recipient is busy.
• You want to send a reminder or follow-up email at a later time.
• You want to automate email sending for a specific task or workflow.

To schedule an email in Gmail, follow these steps:

• Compose a new email
• Click the arrow down icon on the send button
• Select “Schedule Send”.
• Choose a future date and time from the calendar or enter a custom time.
• Click “Schedule Send” to confirm.

Snooze an email

Have an email you prefer to address later? Snoozing an email is a feature in Gmail that allows you to temporarily remove an email from your inbox and bring it back at a later time. When you snooze an email, it will be archived and marked as “Snoozed” until the specified time, when it will reappear in your inbox as a new email.

Snoozing an email is useful when:

• You need to deal with an email later but don’t want it cluttering your inbox.
• You want to remind yourself about an email at a specific time or date.
• You need to take a break from an email but don’t want to delete it.

To snooze an email in Gmail, follow these steps:

• Click on the clock icon on the right of the particular email
• Choose how long you want to snooze the email

Enhance Your Email Organization with Labels

Customize labels to categorize emails efficiently, whether it’s for work-related, personal, or travel purposes. To get started, just click on the ‘Labels’ button in the toolbar and choose the label that fits your needs.

Declutter your inbox from Promotional emails

Decluttering your inbox of promotional emails can help you reduce minimize distractions, and improve your productivity.

To declutter your inbox from promotional emails in Gmail, follow these steps:

• Type “unsubscribe” in the Gmail search bar.
• Now select all emails with the unsubscribe tag.
• Now simply tap on the delete button to delete all.