If you want to sort messages from a particular sender and have an email from that sender in your inbox right now, you can skip this step. Just click that email to open it, click the three dots at the top of the message, and select Filter messages like these. [1] X Research source This pre-fills the sender’s email address in the next step so you don’t have to type or select it yourself.
Use the asterisk symbol (*) before a domain name if you want to sort all messages from a particular company or organization. For example, if you all messages from people at wikiHow to go in your “wikiHow” folder, you’d enter *@wikihow. com into the “From” field. You can enter multiple rules at once. For example, if you only want messages from people at wikiHow to go into your “wikiHow” folder if the word “Tech” is in the message, you can enter Tech into the “Has the words” field.
Click New label… Enter a name for the label into the top field. If you want to nest this label under an existing label (like a sub-folder), select that folder from the drop-down menu. Click Create.
You can see all of your labels in the left panel of Gmail. They’ll also be visible when you’re using the mobile app—just tap the menu at the top-left to see them.
Computer: Click the gear icon at the top-right, and then click Customize under “Default. " Phone or tablet: Tap the menu at the top-left, select Settings, tap your account, scroll down toward the bottom, and then tap Inbox categories. [2] X Research source
For example, if you want all of your emails to show up in the same folder, you’d disable all categories except for Primary.
To view your inbox categories on a phone or tablet, tap the menu at the top-left and then select a category. On a computer, your categories all appear at the top of your inbox.
