GMail: The 5 best tricks

With these 5 best tricks for GMail you get even more out of your mail service. This means you work more efficiently and intelligently with Gmail.

1. Optimize GMail search with keywords

With these keywords you can search your GMail mailbox even faster and, above all, more intelligently. Corresponding emails are filtered out better.

• With the keyword "From:" and a name or email address, only emails from a specific contact are displayed.
• The messages sent to this contact are filtered out under "To:" followed by a contact.
• Use "OR" between two search terms to search for both.
• With "After:" or "Before:" and a date, you receive all messages that were received and sent after or before this date.

2. Use GMail offline

With the free add-on "Gmail offline" from the Chrome web store, you can search the GMail mailbox and read emails even without an internet connection.

• Tip: You can even use this to write emails on your laptop that will be sent later when you are connected to the Internet again.

3. Send email with a time delay

In order to be able to plan your work better, you can have emails sent automatically at a later date. In another practical tip, we will show you how to install and use the free Boomerang Gmail add-on.

4. Unsubscribe from all newsletters - with one click

Everyone knows the annoying newsletters: they come at regular intervals and flood the mailbox. With unroll.me you can now unsubscribe from all the newsletters you want with one click.

1. All you have to do is enter your email address and confirm the authorizations. Unroll.me already lists all of your newsletters.
2. With a click on "Unsubscribe" the desired newsletter is canceled, so that you no longer receive annoying mails.

5. Revoke the sent email - the Undo button

How practical it would be if you could retrieve a sent message again because you forgot something or entered the wrong recipient. This is possible with a hidden function in GMail.

• This allows you to call the email back within a certain period of time using a back button so that you can edit it again.

6. Find out who sends you spam with GMail

Nowadays you have to enter your email address for every little thing on the Internet. This quickly leads to the mailbox being flooded with spam. Google has brought up a new practical function for this. You can easily add as many email addresses to your original address and find out who sends you spam.

1. Let's say your email address is " ".
2. You now want to register with Netflix and know whether the service will pass on / sell your email address to third parties for advertising purposes.
3. Simply add a "+" in front of the @ symbol to your original address and put any word, for example "Netflix" behind it.
4. Your new email address now looks like this: " ".
5. All messages that are now sent to " " appear as normal in your Gmail inbox " ".
6. However, you can use the recipient address to see who knows the new address and whether Netflix may have resold your address.

7. Don't let Gmail spy on you

You may not have known it yet, but many senders want and can check exactly whether, when and where you opened the sent mail. This borders on espionage, but has now become the standard, especially for market research purposes. But you can fight it:

• Simply add the "Ugly Email" extension - yes, it really means "ugly email" - to your Chrome browser from the manufacturer's site.
• Now all mails in your mailbox are marked with an eye symbol when the sender wants to check your "opening behavior".
• Unfortunately, the extension is currently only available for Google Chrome - according to the manufacturer, a Firefox extension will soon be available.

We have summarized the useful add-ons for GMail in another practical tip.