15 Gmail hacks guaranteed to free up an hour of your day

First, enable them: go to Settings > Advanced > Custom keyboard shortcuts > Enable > Save Changes. Here are the ones that will save you the most time:

‘c’ allows you to compose a new message

‘r’ replies to the message sender

‘s’ will add or remove a star to a message or conversation

‘f’ will forward a message.

Clicking ‘tab’ then ‘enter’ will send your message.

If you want to create your own, open the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in Settings and configure your own.

Don’t make these keyboard shortcuts that make web browsing 10 times easier.

Google allows you to check your email even when you’re not hooked up to WiFi. Just go to Settings > Offline > Check Enable offline mail > Save changes.

If you’re working late one night and don’t want to bother your co-workers but are nervous you might forget to send the email in the morning, Gmail lets you schedule emails to send in the future. Instead of clicking the blue Send button, click the arrow next to it and hit Schedule send. This box will pop up that allows you to select pre-selected times from Gmail or pick your own.

Gmail only lets you store 15GB of emails. If you’re one of those people that has over 5000 unread emails and never deletes anything, this hack will come in handy. To delete your biggest emails just type ‘size:[x number]m’ (make sure to include to quotation marks) and all emails that are bigger than the number you typed in will appear and you can easily delete them. You can also manually search this if you click the arrow in the Search bar and edit the Size line.

Before you hit ‘Unsubscribe’ on unwanted emails, read this first.

Instead of navigating through a hidden link at the bottom of all the mass emails you send, have Gmail do it for you. The next time you get an email about a sale or promotion, look for the Unsubscribe link next to the sender’s email. Gmail will ask you if you’re sure you want to unsubscribe and you just have to click the blue ‘Unsubscribe’ button.

This hack can be helpful for times when you aren’t sure if you’re supposed to respond to the email or if it was sent to a mass email list. When you turn on the ‘Personal Level Indicator’ the emails in your inbox will display one arrow (>) if the email was sent to you and another group of people or two arrows (>>) if the email was sent only to you. To turn this on go to Settings > General > Personal level indicators and select “Show indicators.”

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Source: RD.com