Organise your inbox

In other email programs, you might have stored email in folders. In Gmail, you use labels to categorize your email. Labels are like folders, but with a twist—you can apply several labels to an email, then later find the email by clicking any of its labels from the left panel.

You can also:

• Open a label in the left sidebar to see all email with that label.
• Nest labels within labels.
• Search for all email with a label.
• Set up your inbox as you prefer:
• See labels on email in your inbox to quickly identify different types of email.
• Auto-archive email to route it away from your inbox, as you did with rules and folders.