- snooze is a gmail feature that helps you stay on top of your inbox by reminding you to follow up on emails you didn’t initially have the time or bandwidth to respond to.
- la the snooze button appears in the subject line bar of your emails when you tap or hover over the message in gmail.
- You can also search for postponed emails in a specific folder automatically created by gmail.
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More things compete for our attention than ever before, making it hard to keep up with all your emails from work, friends, family, business and more. With so much flooding your inbox, it can be easy to miss an email or forget to reply to the few you found time to open.
for those who experience email overload more than they’d like, google conceived of iteration. the tool helps busy people keep up with a cluttered inbox by letting you save an email for later. With snooze, you can designate a preselected or custom time for the email to reappear and remind you to reply.
Google also added a folder in the gmail sidebar menu that automatically stores postponed emails. you can search those messages to find an email you need to reply to sooner than you thought.
Here’s how to do it.
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how to snooze an email from gmail in a web browser
1. Open your gmail account in a web browser on your computer.
2. Find and hover over the message you want to snooze.
3. At the far right of the subject line, a clock icon will appear along with other symbols, click on it.
4. A set of default times and an option to choose a custom repeat will appear. select when you want the email to be visible in your inbox again.
how to search through gmail snooze emails in a web browser
1. open your gmail account.
2. move your cursor to the left sidebar in your gmail inbox and click the clock icon and the folder titled “postponed”.
3. If you’ve put off a lot of emails and want to locate one quickly and easily, click the search bar at the top of your gmail inbox and type in a keyword.
how to snooze a gmail email on a mobile device
1. open the gmail app on your iphone or android.
2. Touch and hold the email you want to snooze until the top search bar is replaced by a menu bar with four options: a file, a trash, a letter, and three points. .
3. select the three dots icon in the upper right corner to open the email options menu. on an iphone this will appear at the bottom of the screen. for android users, the menu will appear on the top right of the gmail app.
4. tap the snooze option.
5. To “snooze” multiple messages, touch and hold each email you want a reminder for.
6. select the three dots when they appear, then select the “snooze” option.
7. touch the date and time you want to receive the reminder.
how to check snooze emails in gmail on mobile
1. open the gmail app.
2. Tap the three lines at the top of the gmail app on the left side of the search bar. when you do, a menu of folders will appear.
3. select “postponed” in the second “all tags” submenu. this will show all your snooze messages, with the option to search through the emails via the search bar.
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