by Sean Devlin, Front Rush
More and more schools are switching to Gmail, so we thought we would provide some cool Gmail tricks that you can use to make your Gmail experience more efficient…
– Undo sent messages
After you click ‘send’, Gmail will give you 5 seconds to ‘undo’ a sent message and stop it from sending. This is huge help for those “oh no!” moments when you realize you sent the wrong thing to the wrong person. You can enable this by:
1) clicking the “gear” icon on the right hand side and choosing “settings”
2) choose “labs” at the top of the new screen
3) find “undo send” and choose “Enable”
4) click “save changes”
– Drag attachments directly into the body of your message
Instead of having to choose the paperclip icon, then searching your computer to find the file and going through that whole mess…you can literally open up an email in Gmail (compose), and drag whatever picture or file you have directly into the email. Just click and drag and you are good to go. Note: if you are an Internet Explorer user, this might not work.
– Mute conversations
Do you ever get cc’d on conversations and every time someone ‘replies to all’, you get hit with another email that you don’t care about? Then you have to go in and delete it…typically with frustration? Well, go ahead and mute the conversation and you will not have to deal with those frustrating email chains. This is done by:
1) check the checkbox next to the email on the left hand side
2) click the ‘More’ dropdown
3) choose ‘Mute’
– Front Rush plug-in (SHAMELESS PLUG – I AM SORRY!!!)
Front Rush released a Google extension that pulls all of your recruit data directly into Gmail. If you open an email from a recruit, all of their data shows directly next to the email. It then allows you to save the email right in Front Rush. You can grab it at
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/front-rush/knlfajcmongkbojhnodolckgkmfpmcln
– Canned Responses
Do you ever send out the same email over and over again? Or consistently use the same response back to people who email you? The best thing to do is to use canned responses. These are pre-written responses that you choose and send. You can enable these by:
1) clicking the “gear” icon on the right hand side and choosing “settings”
2) choose “labs” at the top of the new screen
3) find “canned responses” and choose “Enable”
4) click “save changes”
5) type out an email that you want to use as a canned response
6) at the bottom right of the email there is a down arrow…click that
7) choose “canned responses” and “New canned response”
8) type out a name
-Note: you’ll use the same down arrow to choose the canned response the next time you send out an email.