Hi everyone,
It's Blake from MailTag.io, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to add labels
to your emails within Gmail.
But before we do that, you may be asking the question: "What are labels?"
In simple terms, labels are basically folders and you can use these folders to improve the
overall organization of your inbox.
Just to show you a quick example of how this might be helpful for your email, as you can
see on the screen, I have a couple of Medium blog posts that get sent to my email every
day.
And you'll notice there is a little colorful green box next to each of these email threads,
which is the label.
This helps me find each of the blog posts so they don't get lost in my email.
And it's also great because I can also access all of my Medium blog posts within my labels
folder, by clicking here on the left side of my Gmail, as seen on screen.
I can also change the color of this label by using the dropdown menu, as seen here.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
So without further delay, let me show you how to setup labels for your email.
Step 1 is to login to your email and go to the "Settings" page, as seen on screen.
Once you're here, go to the "labels" tab and click "create new label".
For this example, I'm going to type "Medium Blogs".
Also, make sure you do not select the checkbox "nest label under", because it will mess things
up and complicate things.
Once you have typed your label name, simply click the "create" button.
Once you do this, you'll receive a notification letting you know that the label was created.
Once you've created this label, simply go to the "filters and blocked addresses" tab,
as seen here on screen, and click "create a new filter".
Then, direct your attention to the text box labeled "has the words".
Here, I'm going to type "Medium Daily Digest".
And if you're wondering why, that's because every Medium post that gets sent to me has
the words "Medium Daily Digest".
Once you've typed the words that you want to add to your filter, simply "create filter
with this search", and you'll be taken to the next available options, as seen on screen.
Click the box that says "apply the label", and then select your label from the dropdown
menu.
As we can see, I have the label that we created earlier titled "Medium Blogs", so I'm just
going to go ahead and select that label by clicking it.
Now, my personal preference is to always check 2 other boxes.
The first checkbox being "always mark it as important", because I never want to accidentally
have any of these emails sent to my spam filter.
And then, the next thing you may also want to check is the checkbox labeled "star it".
When this is checked, your label will add a star to each of the emails within the label,
as seen on screen.
And just to be clear, adding a star is not required.
It's simply a personal preference.
The last remaining thing to check before clicking the blue "Create filter" button is the little
checkbox next to it.
This is super, super important.
When checked, all of the emails that have already been sent containing the words "Medium
Daily Digest" will be added to the label.
So in this example, I want to make sure that all of the Medium articles that I've already
received are added to this label.
So now, I'm going to proceed and check this box, and then click "Create filter".
And now, if you refresh your Gmail, you'll notice the labels that have been added to
each of the email threads, which is pretty cool.
And as seen here, on the left side of my inbox, I can also view a folder containing each of
these Medium articles.
So as you can see, I have a lot of catching up to do.
And again, if the label is not the color that you prefer, you can always change it by going
to the dropdown menu and selecting a different color.
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Thank you so much for watching, and have a great day.
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