GMail is a great, easy-to-use free webmail client and it works pretty well.
But it can work even better with a few tweaks. I will be showing you some of the more important ones.
FIRST of all, you need to enable “Labs”.
Go to “settings” in the top right hand corner and enable the “labs” function.
Once you’ve done that, you’ll see an image of a green conical flask on the right of “settings.”
Click on it and “labs” will open up. The title should read:
“Gmail Labs: our testing ground for experimental features”
Google say that because these features are in Beta they may not work perfectly.
(See ** at the end of the blog for Google’s emergency exit if something goes wrong)
I think however that the simpler features – the ones I have been using - should work fine. I haven’t had any problems with any of them.
The most useful I have found is “Quick Links” (by Dan P).
Open any email and click on “Add Quick Link” as shown in the picture above.
A window will then appear showing the actual path for the email – which you will want to change because it looks something like this:
Change the name (in the text box) to something you’ll remember, e.g.:
The link to that email will now appear in the Quick links box on the right hand side:
Whenever you click the link, that specific email, or email stream (it doesn’t take you to a specific email within a stream) that email will open up.
(The quick links appear in chronological NOT alphabetical order)
Whenever you want to delete the link (this doesn't delete the email) just click the “X” to the right of the quick link.
That’s it!
This is probably the most useful lab feature.
Jason
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**Google’s emergency advice:
If (when) a Labs feature breaks, and you're having trouble getting into your account, there's an escape hatch -- just go tohttps://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0 and Labs will be temporarily disabled.
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