Fortunately, if you use Gmail, you have dozens of features and ways to sort, customize, and arrange your inbox and other folders to make it more manageable and give you more control over finding messages. You can sort Gmail by sender, size, recipient, subject, label, attachments, chats, body of messages, and date. In this guide, we’re going to show you how to organize, search, and automate your Gmail app by sorting your messages using the Sender, Label or Subject filters.
How To Sort Gmail Messages By Sender
How To Sort Gmail Messages By Sender
The first step to organizing and cleaning up your Gmail inbox is by getting rid of the hundreds of promotional emails, which take up more than 90 percent of your storage space. They get mixed up with legitimate emails from your personal or business contacts, most of which may be important, and aren’t meant for the trash bin. If you’ve tried to pick out each promotional message from your inbox, you may not have enough strength left because of the influx of messages, and you’d probably end up deleting a few important ones in the process. Sorting Gmail by Sender will help you group emails from specific senders together, and delete them in one go while sparing the important and legitimate emails that should remain in your inbox. It also helps you save time when searching for a specific email from a particular sender, and forwarding emails to your contacts. In short, you have more control over your inbox, and you can stay more organized and productive every day. There are several tricks you can use to sort Gmail by sender and see all emails from every person in your contact list. We’ll walk you through different methods of doing this below.
Method 1: Sorting By a Particular Sender
Method 1: Sorting By a Particular Sender
Method 2: Sort Gmail Emails From Any Sender
Method 2: Sort Gmail Emails From Any Sender
Method 3: Sort Gmail Emails Using The Wildcard Functionality
This method helps when you need to free up email storage space and retrieve the emails you need from the hundreds of messages in your inbox. If you have emails from former colleagues (with the same domain name) that you’d like displayed at the same time use the wildcard functionality. This is represented by an asterisk character (*), which finds multiple records with the same information.
Sorting Gmail By Sender Using The Gmail Mobile App
Sorting Gmail By Sender Using The Gmail Mobile App
On your Android or Ios device, you can sort your emails in Gmail by sender using the steps below.
How To Sort Gmail By Label
How To Sort Gmail By Label
In Gmail, labels are the color-coded, text-based identifiers that help you find the email you want faster. On the sidebar, you’ll see items like Inbox, Drafts, Trash, Spam and others, which are already set up for you, and behave like tags or folders. You can look for messages with specific labels in Gmail and use them to sort your inbox as described below.
Sorting Emails Using Smart Labels
Sorting Emails Using Smart Labels
Smart Labels organize your emails into five separate categories namely: Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. This helps keep your inbox clean and decluttered instead of having all emails from newsletters, notifications, promotions, and others showing up on your inbox all at once. Gmail sorts this out for you automatically, so you don’t need to modify any rule for every sender or set it up yourself.
How To Sort Gmail By Subject
How To Sort Gmail By Subject
Conclusion
Gmail’s automated sorting tools can sort your emails for you, but, if you want to be more hands-on, you can make the tips in this guide part of your daily routine. You’ll not only save time but also stay organized and productive.
