if you're looking for the best gmail
tips look no further
in this video i'm sharing some gmail
settings every user should know
including how to customize your gmail
layout and how to organize your gmail
inbox
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best gmail settings
every user should know let's go so
first let's start with how to customize
your gmail layout
there are a few settings you should know
in order to achieve
custom layouts in gmail and i'll review
them all here
and then we'll move on to organizing
your gmail inbox
so first up when it comes to customizing
your gmail layout
and organizing your inbox you'll want to
take advantage of gmail's
quick settings these are going to allow
you to change things like
density theme inbox type
reading pane and email threading
i told you there were a lot of settings
so here's what these settings
look like from your inbox click the gear
icon in the
top right and now you're going to have
that quick
settings pane open up here on the right
hand side of your gmail
back in the day you actually had to
fully click into your settings
in order to access these particular
settings so the first thing up here is
the density setting
by default you'll notice that if you
have an attachment
in a message that this is shown on a
separate line for you
right here in your inbox i love this
default setting because
you can just get a quick snapshot of
attachments but you can also click on
the attachment itself
right from here without even having to
open the email
so with that said if you don't want an
attachment to stand out like this
you can adjust your density to
comfortable
and now you'll notice the separate line
for the attachment is gone
and you'll be able to fit more messages
in your
page of your inbox so if you're fine
with a little paper clip icon
and you don't need to see the full
attachment in a separate line view
this view may be for you now last in the
density section
we can get even more compact by
selecting
the compact option and this as you can
see is going to shrink everything
even more on your page view so you'll
fit more emails into that view
so now let's quickly touch on the theme
section
within these quick settings this is
essentially how you change the
background
image in gmail i like the default theme
as
it's nice and clean but there are some
built-in images that you can choose from
as well and if you click on view all
you'll have a selection of images and
themes to choose from here
but you can also upload your own photos
here as well
so keep in mind as we go through these
settings today i have a ton of other
videos about gmail
so if you're interested in things like
how to clear space in gmail how to
remotely sign out of your gmail account
how to create an email template how to
schedule an email in gmail
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so now let's transition into taking
advantage of your
settings to organize your gmail inbox
specifically let's talk about the inbox
type
settings this section of your settings
is probably going to make the biggest
difference when it comes to organizing
your gmail inbox
so you're familiar with the default view
here
but if you select important first
you'll notice your inbox is now divided
into sections with
important messages at the top of your
inbox and then everything else
is below that now with this toggled on
you can just simply use these arrows
here to minimize
or maximize these separate sections
next you can organize your inbox by
unread first
by toggling that option on and just like
we saw before
this will create different sections in
your inbox but
now with unread at the top
everything else will be below that and
you can do this for start so let's
toggle on
start first option to put the starred
emails
at the top of the inbox next here is the
priority inbox
which you'll notice creates a few
different sections
you'll have important and unread at the
top then starred messages
then everything else now something else
to keep in mind here is that just like
with the default settings and multiple
inbox setting
you can customize a priority inbox too
so click on customize
and now look here you can choose in your
inbox settings
which ones you want to show up at the
top of your inbox
so now let's head back to our inbox and
to the quick
settings here and take a look at that
multiple inbox
option you'll notice this is similar
we've added
in some filter sections here and you can
customize this too just
like we did with that priority inbox
now this next section does double duty
in terms of both
customizing your gmail layout and
organizing your gmail
inbox and that's the reading pane option
this is where you can achieve that split
screen look if you're more comfortable
working in that type of email inbox
by default we're set to no split
meaning when you open an email message
it opens in full here
and you can't view all those emails in
your inbox
at the same time but you can click here
on
right of inbox and you'll notice that
now
you can click on a message and it
appears in the right
pane while still keeping all of your
inbox messages
in the view on the left hand side this
is a view you'd
probably be more used to in outlook so
if that's where you're coming from
you may find this much more comfortable
for you plus
you can easily drag the window panes to
your liking
to show more or less of your messages
and you can also split this view to be
below the inbox
in these settings if you rather work in
a top
split like this but here's an even
quicker tip to toggle between your split
panes
once you've played around in this
reading pane section of your quick
settings
you're going to notice another little
quick menu near the top
of your inbox here here you can quickly
toggle between modes without
even going into the quick settings now
don't freak out if you don't
see this on your screen yet currently
you actually have to toggle this on from
those quick settings and
once you've done that and played around
in there once this new little icon will
just
appear intuitively for you in your gmail
so that moving forward you don't have to
go to the quick menu and click your
mouse as many times
the last option in these quick settings
is the email threading option
and that's when all the email replies
are grouped together
nicely for you i happen to like it this
way
however if you did want to turn it off
and have replies come in as separate
messages
this is where you would do that but keep
in mind this
might cause you to accidentally reply to
a message that might not be the most
recent message in that thread
now it wouldn't be true to form if i
didn't offer you a quick bonus tip
for the road and this one is probably
the simplest of all
and that's to minimize the gmail menu
in your preview pane so here's what i
mean
your default gmail view will look
something
like this with your gmail menu pane on
the left hand side of your inbox
so to quickly minimize this view just
click this
three line menu icon in the top left of
your gmail account
and voila the left hand pane has now
minimized to show icons
only but cooler yet you don't have to
click to access these menu items
you can now just hover your mouse over
the left
and your window pane appears again in
full
and when you move your mouse away it
shrinks back down
if you want your full view menu back
again
all you have to do is click that same
three line menu icon in the top left
so that's a quick overview of how to
customize your gmail layout and organize
your gmail inbox just using the quick
settings right in gmail
if you guys have any other questions or
want to learn more about
customizing your gmail layout just let
me know in the comments below and i'll
do my best to answer you
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