8. Using Multiple Accounts - II
You got to send an immediate official mail from your Official Account, and you are checking your personal emails. Don't worry, Gmail takes care of this too!
Sending a mail from a different email id's without Signing in & out again! How cool! This is an extension to the Multiple Accounts – I, with a different mail service running on a different port for your outgoing mails of your secondary mail.
Under Settings-> Accounts, we can easily authenticate our secondary mails and enable this service.
Now if we compose a mail, we get an option in the From: Field along with the name given in the Mail. We Select and Send ! Simple ! Saves a lot of time.
9. Making multiple Gmail Ids from one Gmail id!
A lesser known feature of Gmail, you can add "tags" or "keywords" to your email id by writing them after adding a + at the end of your id. The mails will still be sent to your original id, but with a different "To:" Address.
For example, for all my old DPS VK batch mates, I could give them the id as: gundeepbindra+DPS@gmail.com. I'll actually be using gundeepbindra@gmail.com to access these mails, but can easily make filters to organize the mails my old friends sent on this id!
Similarly I can have gundeep+Urgent@gmail.com which I could give to only a few close friends (And make a filter to Star all mails To: gundeep+Urgent@gmail.com). Also, Gmail doesn't recognize the number/position of "." used in a gmail id. So all mails sent to gun.deep@gmail.com, g.undeep@gmail.com g.u.n.d.e.e.p@gmail.com are sent to the same id: gundeep@gmail.com!
10. Keyboard Shortcuts
Throw that mouse away. And if you are also a Laptop user, you HAVE to use this feature !
For Example: Use gi – to get to your inbox , c – to compose ..etc.,
Plus a new Gmail Labs feature to customize the keyboard shortcuts too if the default ones were not enough!
1. Login to GMail
2. Click on Settings in the upper-right
3. Select "Keyboard shortcuts on"
< Note: You will need a Standard 101/102-Key or Natural PS/2 Keyboard to use the shortcuts>
Source : Gundeep Bindra, SRM University, New Delhi, India,
