Thursday, August 20, 2009

Top Priority Mails Always Appear At Top

On 12th May I posted this blog "Top Priority Mails Should Always Appear At Top". Please read that if you are interested. Now I'm writing this blog as title "Top Priority Mails Always Appear At Top" :) I've removed the 'Should' from title. :D

I'm very happy that finally I'm successful to achieve this functionality in . No, no, no Gmail did not listen to me. It did not implement what I exactly need. But somehow now I can satisfy my desire by a lab and it is Multiple Inboxes :)

How did I do this?
1. First I made filter/criteria that I consider as high priority. e.g. mails from sunata.mehdi@gmail.com are high priority to me. So, even if I cannot check my emails for one month, I still want mails from sunata.mehdi@gmail.com should always appear at top of my mails. (I receive more than 100+ emails daily).

2. While created the filter I marked a label with it. The label is twin star '**'


3. Ok, so my filter and label are created. Now I need to make sure that all mails from sunata.mehdi@gmail.com appear at top.

4. Go to labs and enable 'Multiple Inboxes' lab.


5. After you've enabled it come to settings again and there you'll find new tab 'Multiple Inboxes'. Basically now you can create multiple five mail boxes of your desire. So, I'm going to create a mail box that will only show the twin star mails. Isn't that so simple?


6. In 'pane 0' I've written label:**. Many of you already might know that that is the way gmail can filter/search particular label's mail.

7. That is all. Clicking 'Save Changes' made everything. ;)

8. Now I clicked 'Inbox' and can see high priority emails are shown at top of my mail box. 

Special thanks to Vivi.