OK not that groundbreaking a post I know but its something that slightly annoys me … I’ve about 9000+ emails in my gmail account purely cus I’ve never needed to delete them.
Recently with the amount of mails I’m getting from various forums and renews things I’ve found I’m having to go back a few pages and thought there has to be an easier way and yes there is.
Into your search box put
label:unread in:inbox
This will list your most recent emails. (I can’t really see why gmail doesn’t have a button for this by default)
Now you’ve got two options:
Bookmark this page
Add “Quick Links”
Initially I just dragged it onto my toolbar. (My toolbar is clogging up a bit though)
So go to “settings” -> “Labs” and install the “quick links” feature and save it.
Almost there!!!
Now go to to search box and put in label:unread in:inbox and hit enter
Then on the bottom left (your new quick links feature) click “Add Quick Link” Give it a title “Unread” or something like that … and away you go.
Really does seem like an obvious missing feature in there and I guess it won’t affect the majority of users but damn … it was bugging me no end.
