Last week, as I fought with Snow Leopard, I spent a lot of time trying to optimize Gmail for more productivity. In the process, I came across four Labs features that I found to be incredibly useful.
Canned Responses: This Labs feature lets you include canned responses in your messages. However, I discovered it was fantastic for adding different signatures to my emails, depending on which account I was using to send.
Multiple Inboxes: This Labs feature lets you separate out some of your labels into the appearance of separate inboxes. Actually, it just let me see the labels more clearly, but it worked brilliantly. I set up an inbox for my non-profit email account and my writetech.net email account all within another Gmail account. It worked beautifully.
Mark as Read: This is just a nifty Labs item that adds a Mark as Read button to your Gmail toolbar. It’s fantastic and has nothing to do with moving to the cloud. It’s just a useful item.
Google Calendar: This little gadget allowed me to add a snippet of my Google Calendar to the right column beside my mail. It’s a helpful guide to my schedule as I poke through my mail.
Additionally, I installed the Remember the Milk widget just about anywhere I could. I tend to forget everything.
What Gmail Labs settings work for you?
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