Simplify Gmail Inbox Management Through Personal Level Indicators

Gmail has a visual feature that can identify whether emails sent to recipients are exclusively to their email addresses only and not as a part of mailing list  (marked by a >) or if sent to their email address only which may or may not be a part of mailing list (marked by a >> ). This is the Personal levels indicators feature which is disabled by default. Here is how to enable it : Login...

How To Enable Gmail Desktop Notifications

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Gmail can display desktop notifications of new emails when using Google Chrome or other Chromium based browsers like SRWare Iron. To enable these notifications : 1. Login to Gmail and select “Settings” from the gear icon. 2. Under the “General” section, scroll down and select “New mail notifications on”. 3. Save these changes. From now on, notifications regarding...

How To Turn Off Chat In Gmail

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Gmail has an option of completely disabling the chat box that is present by default on left side of the screen. To do this : 1. Login to Gmail and select “Settings” from gear icon. 2. Go to “Chat” tab and select “Chat off”. Save changes when done. This will now reload the Gmail inbox and the chat box will no longer appear. (If you want to instead do an “off...

How To Disable Chat History When Using Gmail

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Here is how to completely disable having your chat history being stored or searched when using Gmail : 1. Login to Gmail and click the gear icon, then select Mail settings. 2. Go to Chat section and change the radio button from default of “Save chat history” to “Never save chat history”. 3. Hit “Save changes”. All done, from now on the chat history won’t...