Gmail has become an integral part of our connected lives, ingrained in our daily flow of getting things done. You might have missed out on a Top 5 Powerful Features of Gmail App to Make Your Inbox Smarter. So let’s look at what deserves our attention.
If you have switched to using Gmail.com Inbox, you are likely to be aware of the missing features that are not only basic but also nearly as necessary. Google has updated this app with some new features that will surely make your Inbox smarter.
The top five powerful features of this app and these are:
- Undo sent emails
- Emoji’s and new themes
- No attachment limits
- All new Google contacts
- A Pinterest in your inbox
1. Undo sent emails: For a long time, Google has been experimenting with this feature in its innovative Gmail lab and finally the experiment has come out successfully, with the ‘undo sent email’, which is rolled out to be a part of Gmail forever. If you send an email to any recipient accidentally, you will now get the option ‘undo send’. However, you can avail this option between 5 to 30 seconds.
Click the gear in the top
Select settings
Scroll down to undo sent in the default general settings and click enable
Set the cancellation period between 5 to 30 seconds
Click save changes at the bottom of the general settings page
2. Emojis and new themes: The internet’s most popular language is emoji’s (emoticons). Emojis can surpass languages and therefore, it naturally supports any form of text communication. Google, in its new app, has announced that it is going to include a plethora of emoticons to Gmail. To use an emoji, you need to click on the insert emoticons icon on your compose window and choose any of them. Along with the emoji’s, Google has added a whole new bunch of new themes. Now you can customize the themes by using three editing tools such as vignette, blur and text background.
To change your inbox themes:
Click the gear button at the top right
Click on themes
Choose a theme from Google’s featured options and upload your own
Add text, vignette or light or dark background according to your choice
3. No attachment limits: Gmail limited the size of the attachment file to 25 MB. it is good that now you can integrate Google drive with Gmail. Google drive offers a minimum 15 GB of unified cloud storage to Gmail. if you want to send a file of above 25 MB, you can simply insert it through Google option, which you can see in the compose window. If you are a Dropbox user, Google drive offers the same feature for Dropbox as well.
4. All new Google contacts: If you click the drop down menu in the top left corner of your inbox, you will find the option ‘contacts or tasks’. It can merge multiple contacts into one and automatically update your contact info, such as your phone number, Google plus profile and so on. This all new feature of Gmail is truly excellent.
5. Pinterest in your inbox: 2 years ago, Gmail introduced the category tab feature for Inbox which helps in sorting your emails in different sections such as primary, social, promotion. The promotion tab is really useful to avoid the clutter of sales emails. Gmail is introducing a visual oriented way of looking at emails i.e. it has adopted the title of Pinterest look. To get this feature, you need to sign up at g.co/gmailfieldtrial and opt for it. In a few days, you will see a new grid view in your promotion tab.
Source: thewiire.com