It can sound like an infinite to-do list for your inbox. How can you create ground rules to preserve your attention, concentration and cleanliness in an environment in which technology makes you more linked to your job than ever before?

Supedium has come out with 10 Tips which you can use to help you master Gmail like an expert!

1. Cut off notifications: Do not annoy your brain by notifying a new email – search instead of your email. You should set up alerts for some emails on your phone – tell your boss’ alerts. This helps you to find and disconnect critical emails if you wish.
2. You can not get all emails within 24 hours so you may stop receiving another follow-up email from a colleague, even though you just have to check-in. I’ll check my status—”Hello, I have this email but will only be able to receive it later this week! “It’s an ideal way to set goals and convince them that you’re there.
3. Close your email 1-2 times a day: Email is needed to do your work, but the final diversion is still needed. Many people keep it open during the day and search for it every 30 minutes. When you have time to do a deep job, try to close the mail tab: the opportunity to concentrate on a challenging assignment without interruption.
4. Do not more than double-click on an email: when you are reading an email and mark it unread, you will need to re-read it to remember what to do about it. You should review and tag your potential behaviour once (e.g., tagging it as “must respond” or “to do this week”) and then once again when you answered.
5. E-mails should be sorting, processing, and replying: most users bounce from e-mailing later, processing one, replying and repeating. Between these things, we waste too much electricity. Tell me instead, “I sort it all right now.” So, when you’ve done, read all you need to read.
6. Hold e-mails that require clear actions – or store or uninstall them: If you have e-mails in your mailbox without any clear action objects, it gives your brain the wrong impression that you have to do so much. Ruthless about communications that do not necessitate an urgent action from you, erase, cache or snooze.
7. Save those e-mails: Every e-mail you see takes a little bit of your attention, so you can look at everything in the inbox. Gmail helps you to create philtres to “miss your mailbox” such e-mails and not to turn up as fresh emails. If you get several emails, for example, set up a “Do not subscribe terms” philtre — those emails won’t distract you, but can be looked for at a later date.
8. Don’t mix up your e-mails read and unread: it is a prescription for paranoia to merge read and unread e-mail. Fresh emails should arrive in one section and emails should be in a separate section which you have read already and which need action. You should set up a multi-inbox or ‘transfer’ email pane to various labels showing an operation (e.g. ‘To Do’ or ‘Follow Up’).
9. Keep new emails in view to remain focused. When you are continually inclined to open bright and sparkling new emails that have just been sent, it is difficult to answer prompt emails. Open a segment such as your “snoozed emails” and/or “starred email” so you can work on certain activities rather than distract from them with fresh ones.
10. Scan: Email labels will help you keep focused and find what you need. But think of how Google started up … Scan! Searching for your email is a smoother way to locate the email you are looking for, rather than digging through labels. The queries like “has: attachment” or “older than:6 m” (M = months) are searchable by date, sender, subject and more.

That’s it hope this article helps you in mastering Gmail ?