About a couple weeks ago, I wrote about how my Digg shouts were getting out of hand & taking over my inbox. Well, I’ve finally figured out a way to put an end to my Digg shout madness! I know this isn’t the only way but, it’s the way I’ve found to be most helpful to me.
The first thing I did was to switch my email from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. In doing so, not only did I find a way to filter out Digg shouts but, I also found a more reliable & customizable email client. I’ll be talking about some of the reasons to switch from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail in my next post.
The second thing I did was to figure out two simple features in Gmail, labels & filters. Labels are equivalent to folders in Yahoo! Mail & you can create as many as you’d like. Filters allow you to specify the criteria you’d like to use for determining what to do with a message as it arrives.
So, I created a label called “Digg” & then created a filter to send all email messages from Digg (noreply@digg.com) to that “Digg” label. I also made sure the messages would skip the inbox completely & be immediately archived (to the “Digg” label) as soon as they are received.
Step by step instructions on creating labels & filters in Gmail:
Now your inbox won’t be crowded with all those Digg shouts or any other messages that you choose to filter; they’ll go straight to the specified label.
What’s even better is that Gmail will group together all messages from the same title & the number of messages in a group is displayed as well. So, you can see which people are sending you TOO many Digg shouts & take action!
So, what do you think of this solution? Is it useful?
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I’ve been using Gmail for some time now exactly in the way you are.
I took care of most spam and messages I wanted to lable, the last one to fight for me is Facebook, their aps have weird email addresses but I think I’m winning