Quick Tip for Searching in Gmail
This is just a little tip I figured out last week which has come in really handy for me several times, so I thought I’d share it.
For those of you that use GMail – ever had to search for a message that you know is there somewhere, but you’re not sure where exactly? This happens all the time for me, with my horrible memory… Anyway, most of the time when just typing my search term in the search box, I get lots of results — mostly crap from my Junk E-Mail folder.
So here’s how to filter that out:
<your search term here> -label:junk-e-mail
Say for example you’re looking for your student ID, like I just was, because you never remember it and the stupid website you need to log into prevents your browser from remembering it as well. (yeah I know there’s a “fix” for this but I’ll get to that later lol). Here’s what I searched on:
dcccd -label:junk-e-mail
Bingo! There’s my student ID on the first page of results, whereas I would have had to wade through page after page of junk mail looking for it otherwise.
If you care how it works… the - just means to exclude something, so combining that with label:junk-e-mail tells it to exclude items with the “Junk E-Mail” label applied (notice you substitue a hyphen for spaces).
Now to star that sucker…
There’s loads of additional google search info here.
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