Suppose you have any important mail to send but not right now. You want it to be delivered at a specific point of time. You want to schedule your mailbox to send mails automatically at specific periods even if you are not in front of your computer. Unfortunately, Gmail can’t schedule your mails to send [...]

You have upgraded to the new gaudy Gmail interface and probably you are hating it like many others. Among the other annoying elements such as low contrast between colours, one thing that annoys the most is the repeated little box at the right side bottom of the window. No matter how many times you close [...]

Many of us use Outlook and Gmail at the same time for professional and personal work connect. Alternatively, some of us use IMAP or POP so that we can get Outlook like convenience on Gmail. But in both of these cases, managing similar contacts is a common problem. A decent solution to this problem is [...]

Though strikethrough is not a feature that we use in our daily lives unlike bolding or making text italics, it is often required in many cases. For the lesser-known people, strikethrough is a type of styling text with a horizontal line cutting through words representing modification or deliberate deletion. For example: I am was a [...]

When you receive a common mail, which has other known/unknown respondents, it becomes difficult to know who is who and does what. Specially, in organisations and institutes this becomes a serious problem, as we may not know everyone. Gmail’s people widget provides quick relief at such point. It tells us about the associated people and [...]

For how many times in a day do you perform mail searches in Gmail? And how many of such searches do you repeat? I am assuming there must be few searches that you frequently perform to get that right email. We at Gtricks, always try to provide you time saving and productive tips and tricks. [...]

If you are like everybody else, then you probably have half a dozen of email addresses with you. Also among these accumulated addresses, you probably use only one as primary account. All your web logins, important subscriptions and contacts are associated with this single primary mail. You have shared only this mail id with your [...]

We all have to agree that the MS Outlook has more features and is more productive than Gmail. One of such time saving features: Mail preview, is a very useful feature and can really be advantageous when used with keyboard shortcuts. You can also use this in order to maintain uniformity between work email that [...]

Tasks Porter is a small addon application from Google that allows you to export your Google Tasks data “snapshots” in a variety of formats, such as CSV, iCalendar and HTML, which can then be easily imported by several other task managers and calendar apps, including popular desktop applications like Microsoft Outlook, and other web-based ones such as [...]

InboxFever is a new service that turns your ordinary email subject line into a powerful command line by tapping it into many services. It works on the same principle as Google Talk Guru, but with much more usefulness. It gives you the ability to get directions, stock quotes, convert documents, manage social media accounts and more, all from [...]

Under normal circumstances, we tend to leave few mails unread in inbox so that we can later on work on them. But often we forget them and the unread list keeps on increasing. Unimportant/Boring/Spam mails also results in ever-increasing count and this adds to frustrating experience. The Email Game promises to clear your inbox effortlessly [...]

Is there a way to remind myself of some specific task with advance emails? or there is an email that I didn’t want to receive now but after 4 hours. What should I do? Should I leave it unread? Or should I keep it as a reminder note in diary/mobile alarm/Google Calendar? There is a [...]

Gmail by default adds dashes “- -” line before the signature. Also, the signature text color becomes grey automatically. You can avoid this problem with the help of little known Gmail lab feature – Signature Tweaks. To remove dash, follow these steps – 1) Go to Labs from Gmail Settings. 2) Start searching for ‘Signature [...]

Gmail provides the flexibility to change the ‘From’ address while composing mails to anyone. In simple terms, you use only one Gmail account but send emails on behalf of other mail accounts. This is very useful feature for people with multiple mailing accounts. Moreover, the delegated email addresses need not belong to Gmail. For Example [...]

Gmail by default shows reply option in the rightmost dropdown for any mail. However, for a section of people, who use Gmail for business purpose it is very inconvenient to select ‘reply to all‘ each time from the dropdown for keeping everyone in the loop. Note: Just like outlook Ctrl + Shift + r shortcut [...]

Want to transfer your mails from one Gmail account to another? Why? Because it could be helpful in certain situations like – #1. Your email address is unprofessional and now you want to change to some other neat address. #2. You are receiving huge amount of junk and now want to use new one. Therefore, [...]

It is obvious that you are using Gmail as your primary mail (else you won’t be reading this article) and though you may or may not be getting hundreds of mail daily, then too it becomes extremely important to organize it. Why? Because it would help us in the longer run. As we all know, [...]

Gmail is the most used mail service on the web. It is ahead of all the other service providers. Gmail offers better features, better speed, and better functionality with simplicity. There is no doubt that Gmail comes with many features. One of them is Labs, which can drastically improve its functionality. It allows us to [...]


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Abhishek Mandloi is a professional blogger, software engineer and founder of this wildly admired blog - Gtricks.com (read more…)


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