Crash Course in Email Organization

Do you prefer viewing your Gmail inbox in another way?

In settings, there are multiple ways to change the view format so that it better suits your style. In this video, you will learn how to adjust inbox density, edit your theme, change the inbox type, adjust reading layout, and how to hide certain features. 

Video length: 10 minutes

Do you feel flooded with email? 

Filters and labels are a great way to reduce email in your inbox. In this video, you will learn how to set up labels (similar to folders) and create a filter that will identify and organize emails within your labels.

For example, you may wish to set up a label called BA Newsletters. In order to filter incoming newsletter emails, you can type 'newsletter@braverangels.org' into the 'from' line in the Filter options.

Video length: 12 minutes

Have you ever dreamed of your inbox reaching zero new messages? 

The multiple inboxes feature is a great setup to achieve this goal. Most email falls into three categories: Action Items, Awaiting Reply, Read Through Later, and Other. In this video, you will learn how to set up multiple inboxes using labels to organize your messages. If you prefer other label types than the ones explained in this example, feel free to use your own!

Video length: 10 minutes

It can feel overwhelming when trying to identify and schedule tasks associated with emails in your inbox. The Task Lists App helps to lessen this stress by providing a space where you can save these tasks. 

Some cool features: 

• You can schedule your task and it will appear within your Google Calendar as well

• You can save an important email thread with your task, so that you can reference it when need be

• You can have multiple task lists 

Check out this video to learn how to use Task Lists.

Video length: less than 3 minutes

As many know already, Calendars are great for scheduling events and meetings. Google Calendar takes things a step further. 

In this video, you will learn how to use Google Calendar as a whole. 

If you have a Braver Angels Google Account and wish to see your personal calendar(s) displayed on one calendar all together, check out this tutorial too.

Video length: less than 8 minutes

Do you find yourself consistently replying or sending a repetitive message via email for your steering committee, outreach purposes, team meetings, etc? 

Email templates are a great solution to save your message so that you don't need to retype it each time within Gmail. 

Check out this video to learn how to create email templates.

Video length: 3 minutes