Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

Gmail has recently added Contacts in the right-side add-on panel and in the process, brought about some changes in ways Contacts now gets saved from Gmail.  For starters, the " Add to Contacts " options in the hovercard is now gone and replaced with a " More info " link.  So, of late, many users are seen posting in the Gmail Help Community and asking about how they can add contacts directly from Gmail or edit contact details from Gmail.  To add a contact directly from Gmail, click open the conversation and then, click on the Contacts add-on from the right-side panel (shown as 1). It will default to showing contacts " In this thread ", then click on the contact you wish to add to contacts (shown as 2). The next screen shows the " Add to contacts " icon at the top-right corner. Click on it. After a few moments, the confirmation would show up at the bottom of the screen. Thereafter, to view, edit or delete the contact, click on the " Open in ne...

Gmail is known to offer several shortcuts with regards to Google Contacts. One such handy shortcut is the ability to create a new Google Group (Labels) directly from Gmail without requiring to visit the Google Contacts page at https://contacts.google.com/. What is even more helpful is that the feature allows you to do this in two different ways - before and after inserting contacts in the Gmail Compose window Recipients' section. Before inserting contacts in the Gmail Compose window Recipients' section. Click on the To:/Cc:/Bcc: link in Gmail It will pop open the Contact selector window. "My Contacts" will show up as the default contact group indicated by the red rectangle, I have manually changed it to show a test contact group. Now you need to select some or all contacts as required by checking the boxes next to their name or the Select All box above. Once done, click on the Manage labels button above, as highlighted. This will show a list of all available Google Co...

I have always been interested in the Important label since I first saw it in Gmail. I found the concept new, was fascinated with how Gmail could detect and mark emails as important for me and was eager to see how accurate such detection could be. Over the years, I have managed to acquire some knowledge related to Gmail's Important label and a blog article seems like the perfect place to put all my learnings together including answering some of the FAQs associated with it, such as Where can I find the settings for the Gmail Important label? What do the options mean? What are the reasons for which emails can be marked as important? How can I turn this feature off or how to actually get Gmail to stop marking my emails as important? Gmail tends to rely on their algorithms for (most if not all of) their message detections and alerts related to it and the marking of messages as important is no exception.  The "Important" label can be seen in the Gmail left pan...