Gmail, tricks to get the most out of Google’s popular email feature

Gmaile-mail Googling, is one of the most useful services on this platform. Whether you use it to communicate with your work team, fellow students, or for personal use, there are ways to optimize the way you send and receive your emails.

For example, Did you know that you can unsend an email? If you realize you sent it to the wrong person, or you forgot to attach a document, you have a grace period to cancel the shipment. You just need to increase the time to 30 seconds via the email settings.

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These and other tricks can help you get the most out of your email.

Send a confidential email

If you need to send a statement without anyone else finding out, you can set your email to be delivered confidentially. To do this, press the lock at the bottom of the message tray. You choose how long you want the message to be deleted from the recipient’s inbox, or whether you want Google to require a personal password to access the message.

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Schedule your emails to be sent

When you want to pretend you’re already at work in the morning, or when you know you have to send an email at a time when you’re not available, you can schedule your messages. First you write your email, select the recipient and next to the Send button you will find a small arrow. When you click on it, select Schedule Shipping and an option will appear to choose the date and time of the shipment.

Create templates

If you have to constantly send similar emails in Gmail, this trick will eliminate the need to write the entire message every time you need to write one. First, you need to enable templates from the Advanced section in Settings. Next time you’re writing an email, press the three dots in the message bar toolbar and click Templates. There you press Save draft as template, and the next time you want to send a very similar email, all you have to do is choose the template you want.

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Snooze an email

Has it ever happened to you that you receive an email outside of working hours? When you receive an email that you can’t check at the moment, you can snooze it by clicking the clock icon in your inbox and choosing the time you want to receive the email again. So when you go to work the next morning, the email you’ve been putting off arrives and you don’t forget to check it.

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Check your Gmail offline

If you want to check emails, send messages or open your attachments when you don’t have internet, you can do so by activating offline mode. From your inbox, go to Settings, then View all settings and go to the Offline tab. Make sure the option is enabled. This allows you to check your emails and write emails, which will be sent as soon as you are connected again.

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