Gmail: Put a Plus Sign In It

Gmail does not recognize dots inside your email address. Similarly, plus signs are also ignored in gmail addresses. You can use this to your advantage to assist you with organizing your emails in Gmail.  When signing up for various websites, online stores, blogs, etc you can use the addition of the plus sign and a some term to indicate what you are signing up for. Then you can create a filter in Gmail to automagically assign a specific label to the email for simplified organization. 

Let's use test@gmail.com as an example. Below are some types of website and the corresponding email address you could use to signup. Note these are just examples and you should use any combination that will work best for your needs.

• Online store account: test+shopping@gmail.com
• Blog feed: test+blog@gmail.com
• Newsletters: test+newsletter@gmail.com
• Employment sites: test+employment@gmail.com

You get the point, this list can go on and on. All of these emails will be delivered to the test@gmail.com account, but will appear like the new address created above. There is nothing you need to do in Gmail to get this to work.

Once you have used this strategy, go back into Gmail Settings (under the Gear Icon on the top right), select filters, and set up a filter to look for these emails and automagically label them accordingly.

That is all that needs to be done to quickly and easily organize all of your email subscriptions in Gmail.

Let me know how you use this system to help organize your emails.