What Are The Best Gmail Plugins For Chrome?

Tweak Gmail to work exactly the way you want it to. Whether you want to integrate social media icons in your signature, see more information about your contacts, or deal with an email later instead of now, Chrome's seemingly endless collection of extensions has you covered. If you're looking to get the most out of Gmail, you've come to the right place.

3 Unusual Uses For A Gmail Account

4 Chrome Extensions For Gmail To Boost Your Productivity

There's no doubt, as far as email options go, Gmail is one of the services that really does a lot to boost your productivity. Whether it's through the creative use of labels or Gmail filters, canned responses, and more, Gmail lends itself to a more productive email experience. While Google has certainly put a lot of thought into the product, there are a few Chrome extensions out there that can make the Google experience even better.

How To Attach Files From The Cloud To Gmail In Chrome

Have you ever found yourself in a position where you're trying to get files out of the cloud and send them to friends or colleagues via email? You probably end up having to download the file to your computer first and then uploading it once again in an email. With Chrome extension Cloudy, you can finally get rid of that unnecessary first step of downloading it to your desktop.

Minimalist For Everything – The Single Reason To Consider A Simpler Gmail & Google Reader [Chrome]

It is ironic that a web service which dominates the world with an austere, barebones interface has a few allied services which are cluttered. In my opinion, Gmail and Google Reader are not very cluttered. Is it because we have learnt to live with them? Whatever might be your opinion, it is also true that they can be made simpler and easier on the eyes.

Regain Control Over Your Inbox With These 5 Tips For Managing Gmail

Everyone knows that these days, it's pretty difficult to survive or to manage your affairs without email. In fact, most people have two or three emails to manage, so without a good handle on email management, that busy inbox can get out of control pretty fast. I know, you're asking yourself do we really need another article about email management? Aren't we done yet. Well....no.

Email Faster & Better With Canned Responses

Don’t have time to cook lunch? No problem, grab a can. Need some camping chow that won’t go bad? Easy, get some canned food. Tired of typing the same email replies? Try canned emails! Think I’m kidding? Think again. Canned responses, or canned replies, are a feature that too many users have never even tried, but once you’ve tried them, there’s no turning back.

Forget Gmail - Outlook.com Also Handles Your Own Email Domain

Now, using a webmail service to host your domain email isn't anything new. Matt covered how you can set up email on your domain using Google Apps. But is Google really the only act in town? Isn't there any other service out there that provides high-quality free online email service with the added bonus of letting you host mail there for your own domain?

Keep Conversations Going Outside Your Gmail Inbox With Google Talk

Google Talk is Google's own desktop instant messaging program. You can log in using your Google account. And if you are on Gmail, you have already been using Google Talk, possibly without noticing. With the Google Talk desktop application, you can stay in touch with your contacts and continue the conversation after logging out of Gmail. The tool supports text chat, file transfers, voice calls and voicemail.

Please Note This Email! Some Super-Useful Tools To Help You Add Notes & Annotate Your Gmail Threads

Threaded conversations and smart labels were a start. The former really helped to have end to end conversations, and the later came into it later as an email organizational tool. But what if you want to add something more to a Gmail conversation? For instance, a note or an annotation that tells you. Gmail still lacks a notes feature for tagging a specific email with some extra information that’s of help to you as a future reference.

Don't Let E-mail Bring You Down! Use These 4 Browser Plugins To Boost Your Gmail Productivity

There are tons of tools out there that can help with Gmail productivity, and we’ve shown you some excellent ones in the past. If you’re still looking for Mr. right-add-on for your Gmail usage, you should be able to find it below, in this all new list of Gmail browser plugins, which will boost your productivity.

How To Synchronize Your Gmail, Google Calendar, And More With Your Linux Computer

A good number of users highly value the services provided by Google, including emails, calendars, tasks, documents, and so much more. But Linux users also love their desktop applications, and how they often integrate very nicely with the desktop. So what can people do who use Linux but love Google's products? Thankfully, there are a good number of Linux applications which can connect very well to both Google's products as well as your Linux desktop.

Divide & Conquer Your Email With The Power of Gmail Aliases

When it comes to email organization, the immediate reaction is often all about folders, tags, filters, priority marks, and things of that sort. Not that any of those are bad - in fact, most of those features are plain awesome. But there’s another feature in Gmail that can help you to automatically organize your incoming mail - the alias. In any field that requires organization, methods can be split into two types - reactionary and proactionary.

Did You Know You Can Bookmark Specific Gmail Messages? Here Is How & Why

Many cases have been made for why Gmail is an ingenious webmail client. Now even though it is almost trivial to find emails in Gmail, knowing that you can find them doesn't mean you will remember to search and read them once they have been filed or archived. So what else can you do to not forget about important information?

5 Advanced Gmail Search Operators You Should Know

Gmail is an ingenious webmail client with many awesome features. Being a Google service, one of its strengths obviously is Search. And this is exactly how Google revolutionized email. In Gmail you don't really have to worry about filing or sorting emails because you an always find them in a matter of seconds using the Search. While you will easily get to most emails with a plain keyword search, it does help to know some advanced search operators.

Grab Emails From Your Old Account Using Gmail's Import Function

Thinking of switching to Gmail, but afraid to lose all of your old emails and contacts? Don't be. Gmail can easily grab your old emails, especially if you were already using a web-based client. And even if you weren't grabbing those emails is perfectly possible. Importing from an old email address isn't a new Gmail feature, but it's one someone switching to Gmail won't necessarily know anything about. Here's how it works.

How To Setup Gmail Accounts On Windows Phone

Due to a severe spam issue (and to take the storage load away from my PC) I decided to migrate my email accounts to Google Mail. This has had an interesting effect on my ability to collect messages on my Windows Phone. While it isn’t a problem to set up a Gmail account if your email address ends in @gmail.com, the situation is a little different for Windows Phone users if they’re trying to access an email service that uses Google Mail but has its own domain name.

How To Set Up Email On Your Own Domain With Google Apps

If you run your own website or self-hosted blog it’s a good idea to have an email that shares its domain. This will lend additional credibility to your website and make it clear that people are communicating with you in your capacity as webmaster instead of communicating with you personally. You can bypass all the fuss by setting up an email with your domain on Google Apps.

See New Gmail Messages In Your System Tray With Google Notifier For Gmail

While Google’s official Gmail Notifier for Windows is a bit old these days, it’s still one of the email programs we list on our Best Windows Software page. Many of us live in the browser and can get by with a browser extension for checking Gmail, but Gmail fans that don’t leave a browser open all the time will find a lot to like in the Gmail Notifier. As our Best Of page says, it’s just “simple and handy.”