Or, you can create a filter, with the label set: You can assign a label from within a message. You can just select a label, as shown here: You can assign color coded labels in two different ways.
You can hide all your color-coded labels. Next, hit Less to hide all the random junk, including your color-coded labels. Here's where you change the color of the label and hide it so it's only visible in your message list. Hit the drop down menu, choose Hide under "In label list" and then choose a color. First, we're going to give the label a color. Initially, your new label will be inline with all your other labels. Once you've created a label, it will be placed among the other inbox labels, which I find gets in the way. That way, labels won't take up too much space on your message list. I recommend you use label names that are short. Ĭreate a label, but make sure it's at the top level. Be sure that when you create your label, you do NOT it. To do this, you may have to expand the "More" arrow at the bottom of your Gmail list. The first thing you'll need to do is create a label. If you want to do something similar, here's how about it. 's what my inbox looked like once I implemented the :Īdd color labels to make certain groups of messages stand out. I had a pile of incoming email related to the project, but needed a quick way to note that an email was related to the project, and to be able to distinguish between hosting-related and VPN-related emails (since those were the two topics I was writing about).Īfter giving the problem some thought, I realized I could use a combination of filters and labels to help out. Last week, I was working on a project where I sorely needed some additional organization. But there's no way to color-code messages. You can use filters to put email in different folders (what Gmail calls ) or put it in different tabs along the top of the inbox. Gmail does not have conditional formatting. So, for example, if you get an email from your most-important contact, you can make the font size bigger, or change the message line's color so it stands out from the rest. That said, I recently found myself missing feature I used a lot in Outlook: conditional formatting.įor those of you who aren't familiar with that feature, conditional formatting allows you to set message list formatting on rules. Although Outlook now has a much better web mail than in years past, I still prefer Gmail. I sure don't miss wrangling the Outlook application on all my devices. Gmail has, mostly, been a seamless experience. To honest, it's hard to understand how I could have ever gone so many years living in Outlook. It's been almost years since I switched from Outlook to Gmail.
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