Using the Gmail Inbox

Video Transcript

"So now I am going to talk about Gmail's inbox. This is you know the same for any email that you are going to use, but this is what it looks like in Gmail. You can see when you have read a letter it turns like a light blue, like this. Unread letters are white. You can see who sent it, the number of replies that have been made to any particular email. If say a reply got made to this email right here, it would jump to the top and mark itself as "Unread". Over here you can see the time sent and this one has an attachment. Then just some other things, let us actually look at an email, this is what they call a "Conversation view" and you can kind of see the first email that was sent by John, and then I replied, Johnny replied, we replied twice. Some other options here, "Show Detail", so you can actually see the emails being used and everything. If you want to look at all these other conversations, you can do "Expand All", and then they all pop up and you can read them all and see what each person is saying. You can also click "Show quoted text" and it will bring up all the emails that have been sent that way to. If you want to collapse them back you can do that and you can also hide the quoted text. That is what the "Conversation View" looks like and what happens when replying to emails. Then of course if want to reply, you can reply or forward right here or just click right there and just go into "Reply". There is more options up here for like, "Reply to all" and then some filters, print, delete, and some other options. But I will just go back to the Inbox by clicking over here. So I will go to this unread message and show you how you can work with attachments. So there if is an attachment to an email, here is a picture, you can click "View", it will bring it up in a new window or tab depending on your web browser and you can look at it or you can download an attachment. It will bring up a download option, you can save to disc or whatever you want to do. So that is looking at messages. Say that I no longer what this message right here, what would I would do would be click it and archive it, and what archive is, you kind of think of it like a delete, except you do not actually delete it. It goes into your archive, which is your "All Mail" section right here, so you never have to actually delete anything in Gmail, you can just archive it. That is what I do, I mean the only problem I think eventually you might need to stop archiving and start deleting if you have got big attachments, that take up all the memory Gmail gives you which is 6,248 megabytes right now and always rising. You can also have the option to report spam, then delete, if you really want to delete it for good. What happens when you delete it, is it moves it to the "Trash" and in thirty days it will actually delete it, so if I think that eventually I do not really want to delete this message, I can move it back into the Inbox, like that. Some of your other options are to, "Select All" and it will check all of them, select "none", select "Read" which these are all read. Select "Unread" which is there is none unread so you can not see them. Select "Starred", if I starred this message like that then it would select it and what starring is basically you can star important messages, so say this is important and want to go back and look at it later, if I have a whole bunch of emails in my Inbox, the star would let me see if real fast. Then I could go over here to "Starred" and it would show me only "starred messages". Then some other options you have, when you have a message selected like that, you have got some actions right here, you can mark it as "Unread", and then it will go back to white. I can mark it is as "Read", without even reading it, Add Star, Filter a message, Mute or apply a label. That is just a basic overview of the Gmail Inbox."