Configure Inbox Tabs in Gmail
Sort emails into general categories by displaying extra tabs.
Open Gmail https://gmail.com and click the Settings gear icon in the top right.
Select See all settings.
Select the Inbox tab on top.
Then to the right of Inbox type, click Default and select Multiple Inboxes.
Now you can set up search queries that form separate Inboxes.
Add a search query under Search query and give it a name under Section name (optional).
Maximum page size determines how many emails can to display on a single page of each multiple inbox.
Multiple inbox position specifies where the multiple inboxes will appear on your screen.
Make sure to click Save Changes after making any updates.
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We added three additional Inboxes:
We selected the option to display these Inboxes on the right side of the screen, so now we have the default Inbox on the left, and on the right, we have the three other Inboxes.
Sort emails into general categories by displaying extra tabs.
Sort emails into multiple different inboxes, with each one showing different types of emails.
Group emails together by subject.
Enable or disable stars which you can use to mark email messages.
Labels are for sorting emails. They are similar to folders; however, they have some different mechanics.
Create a new label to sort your emails.
Attach labels to one or more of your emails.
Automatically attach labels to outgoing or incoming emails.
Apply a label to an email while composing it.
Remove one label from one or more emails and add another.
Remove labels from your emails.
Make changes to labels.
Access and update all your labels.
Display or hide labels in third-party mailbox services where you check your mail using IMAP, like Outlook or Mac Mail.
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