A lot of people after creating their Gmail account do not bother to organize their Gmail account. The result? A huge cluttered mess of emails and everything bundled together making it sometimes difficult for the person to even browse through their emails. As they say, it’s better late than never. Here is our guide on how you can easily declutter your Gmail inbox and how to organize emails in Gmail which will eventually help you in improving productivity.
Best Tips to Declutter and Organize Gmail Inbox
We will now be showing you how you can easily declutter your Gmail; inbox. Do note that we will be using the web version of Gmail to declutter and enhance your Gmail experience. So log into your Gmail account on your web browser and follow the different decluttering methods.
1. Choose The Right Type Of Inbox View
The first step to decluttering your Gmail is by choosing the inbox you want to view. Thankfully, Gmail has a number of options that you can choose from. Here are the steps that let you change the inbox view in Gmail.
2. Enable Multiple Categories For Your Inbox
Since this is an email service, you will always be getting a ton of emails from not only people but also from multiple services and many of them will not be relevant to you. Nowadays, there seem to always be a ton of auto-generated remains. These emails usually contain your receipts from any purchases or even emails from Google and its other products and services. To make your Primary inbox clutter-free, you can automatically move all of these emails to other categories. Here is how you can do that.
3. Delete Email From Representative Senders
If you are someone that uses YouTube and has subscribed to numerous channels and also have clicked the bell icon to get notified, there is a high chance that you will be getting email updates to video uploads from YouTube. If you have a similar issue where a particular sender keeps sending you emails like this, you can easily clear away all emails from this one sender by following these steps.
4. Make Identifying Labels Easier
Now you can easily create labels in Gmail. But, it can be a headache to identify them. So in order to reduce the number of clicks to see what the label is, you can easily add a color to the label. This helps to identify the label with ease. Here are the steps.
5. Clear out The Spam Folder
Spam emails have begun to rise more than ever. Thankfully, Gmail is able to identify spam mail and neatly moves all such spam mail to a dedicated spam folder. Over the course of time, the spam folder starts filling up. This can be a headache. Why, well that is because Gmail uses Google Drive storage space to store its emails. So, in order to prevent yourself from running out of storage space, it is best to clear out the spam folder. Here are the steps.
6. Take The Trash Out
Once you have read an email or have no interest in any particular email, everyone tends to delete the email. Sure, you can delete the email and go about with your life. But, did you know that all the email is still present? In fact, all deleted emails are still sitting in the Trash folder of Gmail. Here’s how you can empty the trash in Gmail.
7. Get Some Extensions
Just like how Google Chrome has a wide range of browser extensions that helps you to improve your browsing experience, there are a good number of extensions available for you to install and use with Gmail. The Chrome Web Store has a good number of Gmail extensions. Do note that these extensions will usually work well with your Gmail account and more specifically on your Google Chrome web browser. If you use a web browser like Firefox, you can check add-ons that will be available for you to use on your Firefox web browser.
8. Report Spam Emails
Anyone who has your email address is able to simply use your email address to get spam delivered to your inbox. It can be done by your friends as a prank or it could be that you are being spammed by someone with junk mail. You can easily report such emails in Gmail for spam. Here is how you can do that.
9. Change Your Inbox Density
As soon as you open Gmail, you are greeted with your emails right away. That is the best way this service works. But, did you know that you can change how Gmail displays your emails? By default, you can see all the details of the email plus the file name of attachments that have been sent or received. If you do not like this view, I would recommend using the Comfortable Inbox density option.
Closing Thoughts
This concludes the guide on how you can make your Gmail clutter-free. Being able to make your Gmail browsing simple and free from nonsense is always good. Nobody is interested in all the spam and junk emails that keep flooding the inbox. If you have any other suggestions with regard to freeing your Gmail from clutter, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.
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