after you've been using Gmail for a
while your inbox may start to get
cluttered with lots of different
messages so we're going to take a look
at some of the ways to clean up your
inbox and organize your messages in your
inbox you'll see a checkbox next to each
message and you can use these to select
specific messages or you can use the
checkbox at the top to select or
deselect all of them if you want to get
rid of messages you can delete them and
if they are spam messages then you can
report spam which will delete them and
also help Gmail filter out those types
of messages in the future but most of
the time you won't need to delete
messages instead you can archive them
which takes them out of your inbox but
puts them in a place where you can still
get to them if you need to so this
option is much safer than deleting them
to see your archived messages go to the
Left menu pane and click more
and go to all-male
this will show you everything that's in
your inbox as well as all of your
archived mail to hide your archived mail
you can just go back to the Inbox
you can also archive or delete a message
while you're viewing it you'll have the
same options that you have when you're
viewing your inbox and it's really up to
you how you want to manage your messages
Gmail has a really great feature called
labels which you can use to organize
your messages labels are basically
folders except you can apply more than
one label to a message and you can also
create your own labels for example some
of these emails are from friends so I'm
going to apply a label to them if you go
to the labels button you can place a
checkmark next to one or more existing
labels or you can create a new one
type a name for the label click create
new and then click create
I'm going to click this top checkbox to
deselect all of these there is now a
friend's label next to each of these
messages and the label also appears in
the left menu pane if you don't see it
you can click more to see the rest of
your labels to make your labels easier
to see you can color code them click
here and choose the color you want
if you click the name of a label then
Gmail will just show the messages that
have that label this can be very useful
if you have lots of emails to sort
through
archiving and labeling are even more
powerful when you use them together for
example many people like to immediately
label and archive all of their new
messages so that their inboxes will be
as empty as possible and all of their
messages will be easy to find but you
can use these features any way you want
to create an organizational system that
works for you
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