When your Gmail inbox needs cleaning up, a TikTok tech expert has provided a quick and easy solution.
In a recent video, user @tatechtipps pointed out a way to organize your emails using the app’s little-known star feature.
With Gmail, which has 1.5 billion users worldwide, you can mark messages as important by starring them.
This allows you to keep important email in a separate folder so that you can remember to look at it later.
However, what users may not know is that you can enable multiple types of stars to distinguish important messages from each other.
For example, you can categorize e-mails for a specific event or from a specific person and list them separately from other important e-mails.
TA Tech Tips, with 620,000 TikTok followers, explained how to set up different types of stars in a video uploaded last month.
He said, “You all know by now that you can go to your inbox and mark messages that you want to mark as important or save for later.
“However, if you go to Settings, you can turn on other star types so that you have more options for categorizing.”
To try it out for yourself, open Gmail from the mobile app or the website on your desktop.
Dive into your settings by clicking the gear icon at the top of your screen and selecting Show All Settings.
On the General tab, scroll down to Stars. You can add new colors and symbols to your rotation by dragging and dropping them from Not In Use to In Use.
Make sure you select Save changes in your Settings below before proceeding.
If you now mark an e-mail with a star – which is possible by pressing the star symbol next to the reply button in an open message – you can switch between the star types.
With Gmail, which has 1.5 billion users worldwide, you can mark messages as important by starring them.Tick tock
Keep selecting the icon to cycle through all of the star types selected.
The stars rotate in the order that appears in your settings when you tap or click one at a time.
They are all saved in your star folder under your inbox in Gmail’s left navigation menu.
To find emails in a specific star category, simply search for the star color in the search bar at the top of the app or website.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.
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