Gmail Labels and Filters
I shall cover three parts in this video.
Why Labels and Filters?
How to create and use; Labels and Filters?
What a useful pair of Label and Filter might look like?
‘Why Labels?’ - you might ask “We are all familiar with folders, why should we learn this new concept?”
Let me try to answer that question.
Gmail uses Labels whereas Outlook users are familiar with folders. The idea of a folder is to make sure that you can find it and protect it from getting mixed up with other emails. Whereas the idea of a Label is to include everything that fits that concept.
Gmail allows you to assign multiple labels to the same email. To achieve this using folders in Outlook you will have to have multiple copies of that email in multiple folders.
As a matter of fact, ‘Inbox’ itself is a default label that gets assigned to every incoming email in Gmail.
Rather than just making point after point to illustrate this concept, let me share a short story with you.
I am sure you will enjoy it more.