Managing your mails is easier with labels, they provide more flexibility as a mail can have more than one labels but cannot be placed in two folders simultaneously. Google Labs has introduced the new feature of Nested Label it allows you to organize your labels hierarchically.

To use this feature, go to the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, look for “Nested Labels,” enable it and click “Save.” To make a child label you need to use a slash ‘/’. For example, if you wish to create a simple hierarchy with a “Home” label, and inside it a “Family” and a “Vacation” label. Just create three labels with the following names:

Home
Home/Family
Home/Vacation

All the more to create sub-sub-labels of the sub-labels, create a label with ‘/’ after the sub-label. For example, Home/Family/Kids, “Kids” is the label under “family” and “family” is the label under “home”. This way it becomes easier to organize all your clustered mails. You can expand/collapse labels to save space. You’ll always be able to tell whether a given label contains unread messages in its collapsed child labels by looking at whether it’s bold or not.

Please note that this lab doesn’t play nicely with the “Hide Read Labels” lab. You might not get exactly what you expect if you have both labs enabled; for example, the collapse/expand icons won’t always appear when they should. Also, a bold label shows that there are unread mails under it.

Another interesting feature introduced by the labs is “Message Sneak Peek”. It lets the user preview messages to get a glimpse on what they contain and maybe take immediate action without opening them.

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This is exactly what “Message Sneak Peek” does. To turn on this feature go to Gmail Labs tab under Settings and enable “Message Sneak Peek”. After you turn it on, right-clicking on a line in your inbox shows a preview pane with the message in it.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts for a faster sneak-peeking flow (enable keyboard shortcuts in Settings first if you haven’t done so): hit ‘h’ to open a sneak peek card, then navigate with ‘j’ and ‘k,’ and dismiss the current card by pressing “Escape.” Messages you peak at will stay unread.

Enjoy the cool new features..!!

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