Creating folders in googlemail

gwen80

Hi

Apologies if this is a simple solution, but it's driving me mad. I have a googlemail account and now everything gets sorted into three folders as per googlemails own sorting process. The folders are 'Primary', 'Social' and 'Promotions'.

I really want to be able to create other folders like I have in Outlook at work, so I can sort out my emails as I want to 'Emails to Action', 'Order confirmations' etc etc, but can't seem to find a way to do this. Is there a way or do I need to try and get a different email account?

Thanks

Gwen

Velvet_Glove

You can do labels and then file mails under a 'label', and these can be accessed on the left hand side menu. To create a label, just click on an email you want to file under it, click on the 'labels' button at the top (hover if not sure, the name will appear) and type the name you want your label to be. You'll then be able to select it for future filings.

S0litaire

Everything is done with labels. It's actually very easy to use once you get your head around the "not a folder" concept.

so you can have the same email in multiple labels i.e. you can give it a label of "new order" and a label of "for myself" and "Amazon UK" you will see the email under all 3 labels. So you can see how many orders you made through Amazon or ebay etc... if you set up labels correctly.

You can set up automatic labeling so say emails from Amazon will automatically be labelled "Amazon", then you can then sort them out and manually apply other labels as required.