Make Your Email Sparkle with a Signature

Do your emails have a signature at the bottom?  If not, they can and it's really easy (and fun) to do!  Follow along and in 5 minutes you can have your very own email signature sprucing up your email.

1. Open your email and click on the settings cog on the right.
   
   

GMAIL: Setting Filters for Email

GMAIL puts all your email into one giant container and then uses filters and labels to gather what you are looking for based upon your criteria.  It's all about searching with Google and thus it's all about searching in GMAIL.  When you create a filter, you are asking GMAIL to do a pre-defined search based upon your criteria and then display the results.  

What can you do with Filters?

• Forward mail to a different account
• Organize mail using labels and tabs
• Delete mail

Here's how to create a filter:

GMAIL Labels

Google email works differently than your traditional email systems.  It is based around the concept of searching (which makes sense since Google is really good at searching).  GMAIL uses labels to help us categorize things in our searching.  Lets learn a little more about the GMAIL inbox (Part 1) and how to do work with labels (Part 2).

Part 1 - More About the GMAIL Inbox

Lets understand more about how the GMAIL inbox works:  Google puts all your email in one large container.  Every piece of email is stored in the container called "All Mail".  To see the "All Mail" container, simply click on the "More" button (which becomes the "Less" button once you do click on it).