For all GMail users, we often tend to face one big problem which keeps compounding with the ever increasing inbox that GMail offers. Yes, the problem is to retrieve an old email which I might have indexed somehow with a star, a label or something that I can’t remember properly. We know how to get to the labels, but even the labels could be a bit tricky and not so helpful in giving the specific output that we need. And this is when the necessity of the G-Hackman [such a cool name] rises. I am talking of some search keywords to drive away all your Inbox Mail Search worries.

The latest GMail Blog post[Slice and Dice your Email] has some of them listed such as:

• “to:me is:starred” shows all messages sent directly to you that are starred
• “is:chat from:heather” shows all chat conversations you had with Heather
• “is:starred -in:inbox” shows all your starred messages that aren’t in your inbox (a good way to find anything important that you might have accidentally archived)
• “from:elliot filename:pdf” shows all messages from Elliot that have a pdf attachment
• “is:unread in:inbox” to search for all unread mails in the inbox

Other helpful keywords are:

Also, to help people who tend to forget all the search keywords, the Google Search AutoComplete will sort that problem out as well.

And for the frequent Search keywords in use, users can favorite them in a Lab feature called Quicklinks.

To read more about Search Keywords, visit this link [Google Answers]

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