in this video we're going to talk about
two features that you can use to manage
your mail filters which can
automatically sort your mail for you and
the search mail feature which you can
use to find a specific message let's
start by creating a filter the first
thing you should do is decide which
types of messages you want to filter in
this example I get a lot of emails from
Twitter and I'd like to automatically
label all of the messages that they send
me I'll select one of the twitter
messages click the button here and then
click filter messages like these here
you can choose the search criteria that
you want you can filter based on the
sender subject or keywords that appear
anywhere in the message now it has
already put in some criteria for me
based on the message that I selected a
moment ago if you need to you can change
any of these criteria for example I know
Twitter sends me emails from several
different addresses so I'm going to
change this to Twitter to make sure it
catches all of the emails that they send
me when you're done click create filter
here you'll need to choose one or more
actions that you want Gmail to take when
a message fits the search criteria I
wanted to apply the Twitter label and I
also want to archive it so it won't
appear in my inbox I'm going to place a
checkmark here so it will filter all of
my existing messages that fit the
criteria and then click create filter
now to view all of my Twitter emails I
can just click on the twitter label
if you ever need to modify a filter
click on the gear icon to go into your
settings and click filters and blocked
addresses and you can edit or delete any
of your existing filters
now let's say that you received a
message a few months ago and now you
need to find it again instead of just
scrolling through all of your messages
you can use the Gmail search box to find
it just type some search terms and your
results will appear below if you don't
see your message here then you can try
different search terms or you can click
the drop down arrow to do an advanced
search filtering and searching your mail
are really useful features and once you
get used to using them you'll always be
able to find your important messages
whenever you need them
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