Gmail is one of the most widely used email services that are currently available on the market. It offers tons of great features and creating a Gmail account is completely free thanks to Google. If you have been using Gmail for a while now then you are probably looking for a way to organize your emails.Let’s take a quick look at how you can achieve this using Gmail.
Can you create a folder in Gmail?
Officially, Gmail does not offer you the ability to create folders. This might be a deal-breaker for some people, but Gmail gives you another (better?) feature that works exactly like creating folders: labels.
Gmail labels are filters that allow you to classify your emails into different categories without messing up your inbox. Let’s take a look at labels in Gmail.
What are labels in Gmail?
As mentioned earlier, labels are a substitute for creating folders in Gmail to organize your emails. They offer you the ability to create different filters based on various aspects of your incoming emails, including sender address, subject, content, phrases, words, and more.
This gives you the ability to easily classify all your incoming emails as well as existing ones into different categories which will help keep your inbox organized.
Let’s take a look at how you can create new labels in Gmail and use them as folders to your advantage.
How to create and organize labels in Gmail in 6 steps
Here’s how you can create and organize labels in Gmail whether you are using a mobile or a desktop device.
1. How to create labels
Here’s how to create a label in Gmail on your phone and computer.
1.1 – Create a label on PC
Follow these steps to create a new label in Gmail.
Open Gmail and log in to your account as you would normally. Now click on the ‘gear’ icon in the top right corner of your screen and select ‘See All Settings’ from the subsequent sub-menu that appears.
Select ‘labels’ at the top of your screen, beside the ‘General’ tab. Click on ‘Create new label’ at the bottom of your screen.
Click on ‘Create new label’ at the bottom of your screen.
Enter a name for the new label in the dialog box that appears on your screen and then click on ‘Create’ in the bottom right corner.
You will now have created a new label for your Gmail account.
