The first step is to setup a filter. There are two different ways to access the filter settings in gmail. The first way is to click on the little gear icon and then on "settings":
After you click on "settings" you will arrive at the page shown below. You will want to click on the "filters" tab:
After you click on "filters" you will want to scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "Create a new filter":
Once you click on "Create a new filter" the box I've put a red border around pops up:
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caylynn
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Am curious. After three days of going through over 3700 messages because of illness and inability to access, have divided important and other. Am finally caught up with viewing less than 50 in each category with archive and folders daily.
Need a little more information on what to filter at the expense of sounding dumb or dumber. ^_~
Need a little more information on what to filter at the expense of sounding dumb or dumber. ^_~
ThomasPaul
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It's really up to you. I have a folder/label set up for receipts. Every time I get a receipt in my inbox I put it in that folder. makes it easy when it comes to tax time. I tend to just label the emails by the person I get it from that way I can click on the label and pull up their emails.
