Are you blamed by Project Manager because of your poor performance? If yes this post might be useful for you. Almost 40% crowd who are working in IT or ITES companies are facing performance issue.

1) Signoff from your mailbox what ever it may be either gmail, yahoo, your company webmail.

2) Signoff from chat.

3) Maintain a to-do list.

4) Try to maintain good relation with your Team Lead / Project Lead (This is very important )

I am sure slew people are using gmail as there email client. I know lot of peoples shifted to gmail from other providers mainly due to its usability. Now I am going to explain how to make your gmail account as an application to store your notes online, however this is a tricky mechanism but I guess it is useful for employees who regularly use Notes.

There are mainly 3 step to make your gmail account a Notes Store.

Step 1)

Add a contact with name as “Notes” and an email address “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com”. Click on the “Contacts” link on the left side of your mail box, will load the contact window. Click on the first ‘+’ icon which has a menu tip of “New Contact”.

Step 2)

After entering the name as “Notes” and email address as “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com”, please click on the save button. It will add the new contact.

Step 3)

Create a Label “Notes”. Go to Settings->Labels enter the label “Notes” at the bottom and click create button.

Step 4)

Create a Filter. Go to Settings->Filters->Create a new filter (on the bottom). During filter creation add the “To:” field as “yourusername+Notes@gmail.com” and click on the button labeled “Next Step”. In the next window check the checkbox with label “Skip the Inbox(Archive it)” and “Apply the Label:”, from the drop down select “Notes” and click on the button with label “Create Filter”.

Now let me explain the denouement of this magic. You know gmail accepts email address with format “YourUsername+AnyLabel@gmail.com”. The ultimate thing is that your gmail will accept all email address with format as above. For eg: send any email as per above format from another email address and watch whether it receives your mail box.

Gmail is one of the best email client available online, moreover slew people are using the application as there email client. This email client provide vast variety of search option for searching the email in the mail box. I am going to explain how is it possible to sort emails within particular period of time. This is one best features that add more value to business, professional people because they have to regularly check the emails sent by different peoples.

On the search text box type the period with keywords after and before, I will explain it with an example.

For eg: If you need to search email after 2008/04/16 and before 2008/04/18, email between 2 days. Type “after:2008/04/16 before:2008/04/18“, moreover if you need to include some other criteria like email with particular keyword just include that keyword with a space after the format.

Weird of seeing chat result while you search particular content in your gmail ? Here is a solution for it. You can exclude any folder using a string append to the search string, “-label:folder name”. For example you need to exclude chat conversation by simply adding the string “-label:chat” with search string. Below figures demonstrate it.

Without applying the label criteria.

With label criteria. You can see that chat conversation is excluded from the search result. Like wise you can exclude any labels. If you have a label “forwards”, and that need to be exclude while searching do add a string ” -label:forwards” along with the search string.

One of the main functionalities that lacking gmail is it’s sort functionalities by read and unread respectively. One tricky mechanism is there to for doing this. On the search textbox type “is:unread” to sort unread messages and “is:read” for read messages respectively. The feature is very useful for users, yahoo’s support is very much friendly for users. Here is a mechanism to do this in gmail.

When we search using the above query then we will get the result as unread messages in descending order.

Again what we do to search all read messages.

The results will be read mails in descending order.

Like wise we can apply different combination of search criteria in the search box. For eg: “is:unread label:inbox” will query the unread messages with label “inbox”. This is very helpful for power users. Why google is not implementing UI for this to attract normal users.

Is google mainly targeting power users ?