Most of us use Gmail, the post popular email service. It offers the cool features like the emails getting segregated into Social, Promotions, and Primary. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. On May 13, 2013 Google announced the merge of their free storage across Gmail, Google Drive, & Google+ Photos allowing users up to 15GB of free storage to use across their accounts. And then there is omnipresent Google Hangouts helping the Gmail users to video chat supporting up to 10 video calls. All these features are truly amazing and the users are quite well versed with them. Nevertheless, Gmail can still surprise you with some hidden features that you might have not known before. Here is the list of 10 such features as compiled by Business Insider.

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Most of us use Gmail, the post popular email service. It offers
the cool features like the emails getting segregated into
Social, Promotions, and Primary. Gmail has a searchoriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an
Internet forum. On May 13, 2013 Google announced the
merge of their free storage across Gmail, Google Drive, &
Google+ Photos allowing users up to 15GB of free storage
to use across their accounts. And then there is omnipresent
Google Hangouts helping the Gmail users to video chat
supporting up to 10 video calls. All these features are truly
amazing and the users are quite well versed with them.
Nevertheless, Gmail can still surprise you with some hidden
features that you might have not known before. Here is the
list of 10 such features as compiled by Business Insider.
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3. Faster loading
If you are on slow internet connection the Gmail may
take a few minutes to load completely. But - you can
switch to a basic version of Gmail which will load
faster just by adding ?ui=html to the standard Gmail
URL.
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Save attachments directly to Google Drive
Gmail users can view and save the attachments directly
to the Google Drive without having to leave opened
mail, according to the latest announcement from
Google in a blog post on November 12, 2013.
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4. Star your important emails
With huge number of mails making their way into your Gmail
inbox, it is often a grueling task to find the one which are
important. It could be like finding a needle in stack of needles.
To answer the issue Gmail has come up with the “Star” system
where you can star the important mails. The default “Star”
color is Yellow but you can upgrade to add a selection of
colors.
To do this go to the Gear box > Settings > Stars. You can add
in different coloured stars, for 1*, 2* and so on. If you make
2* red, then when you go back to your inbox and star a
message it will still go yellow for 1*. But then, you can click
for a second time and it will turn red! Keep going so you can
add in a selection of colours and then search your inbox for
coloured stars later. If you want to search for 2* messages that
are red, go to the search bar and type in: has:red-star, this will
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5. This means you can save files directly to the Google
Drive without downloading them but by just
clicking on the hovering Drive button over the
attachment previews at the bottom of the opened
mail.Adding to it the new Gmail feature also
allows you to move the attachments to specific
folders. And it doesn’t mean that you can’t
download a Gmail file, that ability will be there
with you always.Google also says that the new
feature will work for all types of files be it images,
word documents, videos, spreadsheets or
PDFs.The new attachment experience will roll out
to Gmail users over the next week and it will be
available on desktop first before reaching out
toother platforms.
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6. Gmail warns you on attachments
Most of the times in our mail, we mention the word “attachment” but
go on to hit the send button without attaching one. It may be an
embarrassing situation for the recipient to find a mail without the
mentioned attachment. To save you from such happenings, Gmail
intelligent searches for the word “attachment” in the mail, and
warns you upon hitting the send button if you have not attached any
file. The pop up message says: Did you mean to attach files? You
wrote "I have attached" in your message, but there are no files
attached. Send anyway?
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Backup your messages
If you want to back up mails than the easiest way could be to sign up
for a backup email account then you can set up your Gmail account
so it forwards emails into the primary Inbox. Follow Settings >
Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Once you're there just select 'Forward
a copy of incoming mail to' and fill in
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7. Multiple email addresses
If you want to have multiple email addresses out of your original email ID and
want to receive the same mails in all of the IDs, than Gmail offers you this
option. All you need to do is add a full stop to your email address. Google
will send the same emails to sammp@gmail.com and to
sam.mp@gmail.com. If you want more than you can create
s.ammp@gmail.com or any other variation. This Gmail feature is
specifically useful if you want to use multiple email alises to sign up to
different web services or newsletters.
To-do lists
Your Gmail can double as your to-do list keeper than just an email service
provider. All you have to do is click on Mail > Tasks and a small task bar
will pop up at the bottom. Just fill in your to-do list and add in a due date if
you want Gmail to remind you about it. When you're done, tick the box in
the corner to get a satisfactory line strike through your task.
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8. Keyboard shortcuts
If you want to navigate through your Gmail account superfast, then
there are few shortcuts that can help you. While you are on the
Gmail page follow these shortcuts: Ctrl + Enter means send
message; Ctrl + . means advance to next window; Ctrl + Shift + c
means add Cc recipients; Ctrl + Shift + b means add Bcc recipients.
Switching accounts
If you have two Gmail accounts and want to open both of them in the
same browser at same time, than you can do it. All you have to do is
click on your email address in the top right corner, and select Add
account. It will then take you to a separate tab where you can log
into your other Google account. If you use Google Chrome it will
remember this and save it as a permanent option for to swap to - but
if you use any other browser you'll have to add in the email address
each time.
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9. Advanced shortcuts
Gmail also offers its users to customize the shortcuts
to fit their taste. These can range from shortcuts
to opening a new window to compose a message,
to moving a conversation to the Bin. To enable
these extensive shortcuts, go to the Gear box in
the top right corner > Settings > Keyboard
Shortcuts > Keyboard shortcuts on > Save
changes.
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