More on GMAIL [Draft]
As most everyone who has worked with me, or talked to me, knows I use and I love GMAIL.
It’s a very powerful tool and has made managing my email so much easier than days gone by with Microsoft Outlook.
Why do I like it and recommend people seriously consider it for managing their email?
Stable
Reliable
Makes EMAIL management easy
* You never have to delete another message
* Tons of free storage
* Super SUPER easy and fast finding old email based on keywords
* Identifies 99.9% of SPAM correctly
* Rarely tags something SPAM that is not SPAM (Yea!)
* Is available from any device connected to the ‘net (PC, phone, Internet cafe)
* Very easy to manage email conversations, sometimes called threads
* Works with any mobile device that connects to the Internet
* Other features… too numerous to mention here (but you’ll find here)
Oh yes… and it’s free.
There are a few things that are different and take a bit of getting comfortable with.
One is never having to delete email. Sure, delete stuff you don’t need, but if you want to keep something - go for it! No problems because you have tons of storage.
I’ve been using GMAIL for almost three years and have only just hit 23% of my storage limitation. Trust me, I have tons of email archived.
With GMAIL, if you want to keep something for future reference - just don’t delete it. Just save it in your archives by selecting the “Archive” option after reading it.
Archiving something puts it into your All EMAIL “folder.”
Speaking of archives, GMAIL does things a little different than most email programs.
One of the things it does differently is how it approaches what would be normally called “folders.” Folders are gone. Labels are in.
So, for purposes of discussion, GMAIL basically has two “folders,” if you have to use that word - In and All.
Either an email is in your In box or you put it in your “archives” or All EMAIL.
That said, everything can and might have a label.
You create labels (left side of GMAIL screen) and then apply them to different email messages. You can “tag” email messages with multiple labels.
GMAIL is worth taking a look at and for most people it will work great.
