A Quick Tip for Categorizing Gmail Messages

You can move messages from one Gmail tab to another by just clicking the subject line of a message and then dragging it to the tab that you desire it to be in. When you do that youll see a little pop-up message asking if you desire to have all future emails from that sender appear in tab to which you just moved the message. Enjoy this brief video to see how this procedure works..

The default inbox plan in Gmail consists of a Primary tab, a Social tab, and a Promotions tab. There are some events when messages that need to appear in the Primary tab appear in Promotions and times when messages that must be in the Promotions tab land in the Primary tab.

Applications for Education.
While uncommon, there are times when a message from a teacher to a student or student to an instructor lands in the incorrect tab. Dragging the message back to the appropriate tab can assist avoid that from happening again. The obstacle is to get students to in fact open their inboxes!

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