Many of us use Gmail as our primary mail client. But most of us don not know the coolest and most useful features of Google Labs for Gmail. Here are the best 10 Useful Labs Features for Gmail. Have a look at them, they will make your task simpler and quicker.

1.Undo Send:

Have you ever realized after sending the mail, “oh..!! I must not have sent this one”? And you feel helpless that you sent a wrong mail. All that you could do now is send a new mail, saying “Please ignore the previous mail”. The “Undo Send” Labs feature allows you to cancel sending of a mail while it’s on its way. This feature introduces a time delay and lets you “un send” the message after you have clicked the send button or after you have entered the “sent mails” displaying “your message has been sent”. Don’t believe this? Have a look yourself:

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2. Message Sneak Peek:

There are times when you are away and you do not have access to your inbox. And on returning, you find it flooded with hundreds of mails. Now, it could be tiring and time consuming task to go through all the mails one by one and delete the unwanted.

The newly introduced Labs feature “Message Sneak Peek” is the solution to this problem. By enabling this Labs feature you can preview your mails without opening them. By right clicking it you can have a preview of the message. Next is your choice to either delete it or read it.

It also lets you preview all the mails which were piled up as conversation. Have a look at the picture below:

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3. Nested Labels:

Labels are always a “smart” way to organize your mails. You could have a mail with one or more labels but you cannot put the same mail in one or more folders simultaneously. Nested Labels allows you to create Labels >> Sub Labels >> Sub-Sub Labels and so on. It makes it easier to arrange all your mails. For e.g. “Family” has “Children” as sub label and “Children” has “Son” and “Daughter” as sub-sub labels to “Family”. To create nested labels: Click Create New Label, then type in: label/sub-label/sub-sub-label. For e.g.: blog/orkutheroes/my will create ‘”blog” as parent label and “orkutheroes” as child label. “my” will be child label to “orkutheroes”.

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4. Inserting images:

Gmail doesn’t provide any option to insert images directly into the message body of your mail. This feature adds a new “insert image” icon in the formatting toolbar thereby allowing you to insert images in your message either from your computer or from a URL.

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5. Message translation:

“Message Translation” helps you translate the mails written in any foreign language to the language of your choice. Auto Detect feature automatically detects the language in which mail has been written. You have to simply select the language from the list to which the message should be translated.

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6. Google Search in mail:

Many a times you might need to search the web while composing a mail, so as to include the information in the mail. With “Google Search” you can search the web right from the “Compose Mail” window of Gmail. After enabling this feature, you will find a new Google’s “G” icon in the formatting tool bar. Also, it will add a sidebar “Search” gadget. Click and start “googling”.

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7. Quick Links:

“Quick Links” is an easy way to create links/bookmark for your mails. This gadget adds links to your mails and lists them in the left sidebar provide quick and easy navigation between your important mails. You can add a custom title to the link so that its easier for you to access the relevant mails.

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8. Google Docs previews in mail:

If you and your friends use Google Docs extensively, you might be sending/receiving the Links to their docs. To view these docs you have to always leave your existing page and go to the Docs page. “Google Docs previews in mail” allow you to preview the document in your mail itself.

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9. Create a Document:

“Create a Document” helps you create documents out of your mail and chat conversations with proper formatting. Simply enable this feature so that whenever you view a mail, you will find a “Create a Document” on the right. Click on it and Google will do the rest. Save the file and download it or mail / share it with others.

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10. Sender Time Zone:

This is a tiny cool feature automatically converts the sender’s time zone to your country’s standard time zone. Also, it displays a small “phone” icon, if it’s green; it signifies you can contact the sender. A red color shows its late night / early morning, not an appropriate time to call the sender. By clicking on “show details” link you will come to know the current time at sender’s place.

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Undoubtedly, these tools are of great use. Inserting images, web search, bookmarking of mails without these features would not have been possible. These tools could help you organize your inbox so that you could manage your mails easily.

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