How to create a Gmail filter

Tired of manually placing incoming email into folders? Exhausted from deleting junk email and reporting it as spam? a Gmail filter is the answer you need.

Gmail filters allow to apply a certain treatment to your flow of incoming mail. With a Gmail filter, you can label mails, add a star, move to a folder or even to spam.

Here is how to do it:

Go to your Gmail account
in the search area, click on the down arrow

create-a-gmail-filter-keyboardbanger1 — Figure: the down arrow is at the right of the search box.

type your search criteria. For example, I’m going to search for all emails coming from Neil Patel

create-a-gmail-filter-keyboardbanger2 — Figure: Typing “Neil Patel” in the “From” section of the search box.

To create a filter, click on the bottom link Create filter with this search

create-a-gmail-filter-keyboardbanger3 — Figure: Click on the link to launch the Filter setup menu

set the type of action you’d like to see. For example, I’m going to direct all incoming mails from Neil Patel to a new folder called Blogging. Note that, in Gmail, folders are associated with “labels”. Two mails with different labels will be put in two different folders.