Hacks tip tricks

1. Bring Priority Emails to the Top

Gmail displays emails in chronological order by default. But, we know that not all emails are the same. Sifting through a handful of marketing mailers just to arrive at that one highly critical and urgent email from your boss isn’t helping your productivity. Try out Gmail’s priority inbox – a feature that filters emails based on what needs your attention the most.

You can activate it by the following steps:

1. Navigate to Gmail settings

2. Click on the Inbox tab

3. Click the “Inbox-type” drop-down and select priority

2. Have Gmail tell you what’s important

Based on the type of Emails you open, Gmail can tell what’s important to you and what isn’t. So, here’s what you have to do:

1. Head to Settings > Inbox

2. Select the Use my Past Actions button

This will get Gmail analyzing your past behavior to figure out what type of mails are priority. Then,

1. Choose the Show Markers and the Override filters buttons

2. Set the inbox type to Important first

3. Merge your non-Google accounts

It’s a common thing to have email accounts across services. Everyone has at least one personal and one professional account. That said, the back-and-forth between these IDs can get arduous. But the good news is that Gmail has a way to bring all your emails inside a single window – letting you manage all your conversations holistically, from one place.
The best part is that you can respond using any of your email addresses – keeping the necessary separation intact. To enable this do the following,

1. Open the Gmail App on your Android phone or tablet.

2. Tap Menu on the top right and click Add Account.

4. Create custom email addresses

By default, when you sign up for Gmail with your business, all your email addresses will come with the “@gmail.com” ending. But if you have your own domain name, when you sign up, you can quickly verify your domain name and create new users with your custom domain. The verification process is short and sweet; all you need to do is insert a short HTML tag into your site’s homepage—which you can do even if you’re not an experienced coder. Email addresses that feature a professional domain will be taken more seriously than those with a basic “gmail.com” address, and you’ll get some extra exposure for your brand name, too.

You can do this directly through G Suite:

1. Create a G Suite Admin account (if you don’t have one already)

2. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

3. Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

4. At the top of the Admin console Home page, click to continue the set up process.””

5. Choose one of the following tasks:

   1. verify your domain.

   2. activate Gmail.

5. Use Google drive with G Suite

Google Drive is Google’s solution to cloud storage. It allows the saving, storage and sharing of files of any size (up to your account limit). Use the drive icon at the bottom of your email to attach files of any size.

Google Drive is automatically enabled with the basic version of G Suite, so make sure to make use of it’s many features:

1. Upload and store files in Drive

2. Access your files in Drive

3. View and update files in Drive

4. Organize and search in Drive

5. Access your calendar, notes, and tasks

6. Share and collaborate in My Drive