Gmail lab plugin to helps identify the right email recipients

You sure don’t want to miss this 2 useful ‘Bob’ Gmail lab plugin. It’s there to assist you selecting the accurate email recipients list whenever you’re composing an email.

Don’t forget Bob - Once you pick some email recipients, Gmail suggests more people you might want to include based on the groups of people you email most often. - Unlike Outlook where we can create distribution list to include the list of email address, Gmail does not have that feature. You tend to memorize the email address, or list down it somewhere else. This is where this lab came in handy, it will remind you to include the list of people that met condition described above, in case you missed them.

dont forget bob Gmail lab plugin to helps identify the right email recipients

Got the wrong Bob? - Doh, have you ever addressed an email too quickly, and included Bob (your boss) instead of Bob (your friend) by accident? If you’re emailing more than two people at once, Gmail will check if you meant to include Bob Smith rather than Bob Jones based on the groups of people you email most often. - I bet you have experienced this before,  I just wish Outlook to have this feature as well!

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Both Gmail lab plugin has to be enabled before it can be used. From within GMail, go to Setting >> Lab and looks for the plugin name above.


Search Autocomplete improves Gmail search functionality

Search Autocomplete is new Gmail Lab, introduced to assist you finding anything on your Gmail account, from emails in inbox, outbox, folders to the person name and email address from your contact book.

To get it to work, please enable it from Gmail Lab. As you typing few letters , Search Autocomplete will list down whatever subject, name or file that match with the letters.

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Finding any media type or attachment also has been improved, with the introduction of simple operator that anyone can remember easily.

For instance if you want to search for photos, as you typing the first few letter for pictures, images or photos, autocomplete will suggest ‘has photos‘ and turn the key phrase to ‘filename:(jpg OR png)’ . It will search every email with images.

Other useful operator is in:inbox if want to find email that only located in inbox.

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Other samples of operator

has attachment -> has:attachment

has pictures/photos/images -> has filename:(jpg OR jpeg OR png)

has documnet -> filename:(pdf OR doc OR xls OR ppt) OR docs.google.com OR spreadsheets.google.com

has video -> filename:(avi OR mov OR mpg OR mpeg OR mp4) OR youtube.com/watch

has calender event -> filename:ics

in inbox -> in:inbox

in chat -> in:chat

Gmail Lab in 49 languages

Gmail rolled out translation version for its Gmail Lab, the last piece of Gmail which is yet to be translated before. If you use Gmail in your native language, you might have notice it before.

In case you interested to test how good you’re in your native language, first you have to choose that language from the ’setting‘ menu. Once you have saved the language setup, go to setting again, and choose lab. Depend on the language you choose, you’ll see Gmail Lab now in non-English.

For instance, Gmail Lab in Bahasa Melayu. Err.. Beberapa Barang Experiment yang tidak betul??????

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GMail Labs bring multiples inboxes

New in Gmail Lab today is the multiple inboxes. The screen shot is pretty much self-explanatory, where you got more than 1 inbox. You can choose from your labels, draft or outbox to be shown on your Gmail front page.

Enable this from the Setting — Lab — Multiple Inboxes. Tick the enable check button.

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