Do you usually receive emails with similar issues and you can’t stop them even after sending them to the spam bar? Good Is there a way to prevent your inbox from overflowing?: Gmail Filters, an advanced configuration system with which you can clean your email before it gets dirty.
I keep my personal mail clean and free of junk mail thanks to the habit of leaving the tray at zero. Archive conversations that are no longer valid but are still important, I unsubscribe from all the services I can and I do not hesitate to move in the Spam folder any sender who does not respect the reason. This in the personal, because in the professional it is much more difficult for me to maintain order. Until I got serious and filled my Gmail account with filters.
This email does not go through, this one either.
Filters are a powerful tool that can be applied to searches, also on input records. Allow items that don’t match a feature to pass
Gmail includes a powerful filtering tool to choose the behavior of the inbox. And that’s where what we’re looking for comes in: you can get the messaging app on your phone submit only messages that interest you. In my case, I applied filters to eliminate indiscriminate press releases, unsubstantiated job offers and many other communications that I had to eliminate one by one. Now they all go to the trash without going through the exit box.
It’s not that Gmail’s filters are anything new, as they’ve been around for years. The problem is that Google does not offer them in mobile applications; which makes their knowledge and access to their configuration a little more complicated. However, the web browser is your friend, here are the steps you need.
- Open Gmail in a desktop browser. This is best done from your computer, although the phone is worth it if you load the mail page in desktop mode (Gmail is very elusive with this view, it will cost you to load it).
- Click on the top gear icon, the one that goes to Gmail settings.
- Click on “See all parameters“.
- Enter in “Filters and blocked addresses“. Alternatively, you can access this section directly from this link.
- Look at the menu “Create a filterClick here to add criteria with which to automatically clean your inbox.
- Now complete the filter according to the criteria for which you want it to act. For example, if you always receive emails from “we improve your offer” to try to get you to change companies, put “offer” in the “Contains the words” field: Gmail will detect all emails with this criterion. You can fill in several criteria to further refine your filter.
- Once the criteria are met, select “create a filter“. You will see that Gmail offers you a panel with all possible action options whenever it detects an incoming email that matches the filter.
- To automatically delete emails that come to you with offers, select “Delete”. Once you click on “Create a filter”, all emails containing the word offer will not appear in your mailbox because they will have gone directly to the trash.
- Complete the filters according to your needs in order to cover all possible mail types flooding your Gmail. When you’re done, you’ll see that your mobile email app will stay cleaner than ever without losing the emails that are important to you.
- You can create filters for anything you want, not just for deleting messages: if you receive job offers in your email, you can create a “Job” label and configure a filter that sends all emails. -mails related to this label. This way, everything will be better organized and you will find what you are looking for without having to get lost in the inbox.
If you create filters to send incoming emails to trash, be sure to check this folder from time to time to confirm that Gmail has only diverted irrelevant emails.
Filters are as powerful and customizable as you want them to be. Use your imagination, analyze the structure of emails that usually annoy you, and set limits for Gmail to process them. Remember: any filters you apply on desktop Gmail will also work on your mobile apps.
