Here’s are some unknown features of Google Gmail

Most of us depend on Gmail for our mailing needs both in professional and personal lives. We use Gmail so extensively that we assume we know everything about Gmail. Surprisingly, Gmail has a lot of features that might surprise you when you come to know they exist. Here are a few interesting Gmail features that can change the way you use this mailing platform.

The dots you see in any Gmail address never matter

You can mail JoeMartin@gmail.com by altering the address as Joe.Martin@gmail.com or J.o.e.M.a.r.t.i.n@gmail.com and they will all be delivered to the same mailing address. The reason behind this is that the periods in the Gmail address never matter.

You can use the snooze button on your Gmail interestingly

With the help of the free Gmail app Boomerang, it is possible to open an email and set it to be delivered to your inbox in a particular amount of time. To make use of this function, open Boomerang and set the conversation to be delivered in the time you want.

You can find out who has spread your Gmail address

When you add a ‘+’ sign to your Gmail address and then any words in your Google account, it will still work. For instance, if you had to subscribe to a shopping site and you wish to do this with your email id, you can use your email id as JoeMartin+shopping@gmail.com. When you use this for signing up to a given site and if the site uses this mail id to send you emails, you will still get your emails in your regular inbox. The difference in the email address will however help you filter the mails on the basis of from where you have received them. In addition, when you get a mail from anew site bearing the different email id (JoeMartin+shopping @gmail.com), you will get to know who gave out your email id to third parties.

It is possible to get desktop notifications for Gmail

If you check email frequently for some reason, you can set the Gmail to send pop up notifications on the bottom corner of your desktop screen as and when a mail lands on your inbox. You can set the notification for all mails or for mails that are labelled as ‘important’. In your inbox, click on the gear icon. Go to settings and scroll down to enable Desktop Notifications.

It is possible to delete the full contents of your inbox

If you wish to clean up your inbox fully, you can do so using a particular feature of the Gmail. It is very easy to erase all the emails at once. In your inbox, you can see the number of email messages you are viewing on the screen. For example, it might read as 1-50 of 20,367. Click on this to ‘Show more messages’. From here, click on the checkbox you will find on top of the left side and choose ‘Select All’ option. At this point, Gmail will ask you if you really want to select all the messages in your inbox. Once you have thus selected all the messages in your Gmail account, click on the trashcan for deleting all the messages and it is done.