Sort your Gmail messages by applying a label to a filter. The messages you selected and all subsequent mail from that person will now be viewable by clicking the entry you just created in the ...

See How to manage Gmail labels for details.) To find a lost message, search for a word or words that will be in that message, and hopefully not in too many others.

Gmail labels behave very much like folders in other digital environments. You can store messages and conversations in them to organize your mail.

A new feature in Gmail now allows you to star or add a label to outgoing emails to help you remember to follow up. The labels and starring works the exact same way it does in your inbox.

After that, though, the app can back up the SMS messages you've stored on your phone to a Gmail label—"SMS" by default, but you can change it to anything you want.

Back in September, Gmail introduced a useful way to further refine search results on Android, and those filters now appear when viewing labels. Opening a label or default folder (e.g, Starred ...

Figure A: Adding a widget to the Android home screen. How to add a home screen shortcut to a Gmail label Your email has been sent Recently I went on a business trip, where I needed quick access to ...