You can activate it by looking for the “Send and Archive” option in the General section of Gmail’s settings. The “Send & Archive” button combines two steps into one (It doesn’t replace the regular “Send” button it just appears as an extra button alongside it.) Save yourself a step and switch on Gmail’s optional “Send & Archive” button, which combines sending and archiving into a single command. If you’re anything like me, you probably archive messages immediately after responding more often than not. And if you always want to write in a full-screen window, there’s a setting to adjust Gmail’s default behavior: Click the three-dot menu icon in the compose window, then select “Default to full-screen.” That’ll make all your future emails start in that large, centered view.ĥ. If you’d rather write in a centered and more full-screen field, you can click the small diagonal arrow in the window’s upper-right corner to change its size and placement. By default, Gmail gives you a small window in the corner of the screen for composing new messages. Just change the default times for each day-part within Keep’s settings, and the same times will then carry over to Gmail-both on the website and within the mobile app.Ĥ. Here’s a little secret, though: You can customize exactly what time Gmail considers to be “morning,” “afternoon,” and “evening” by looking in the settings of Google Keep (obviously, right?). The new Gmail’s snooze option is spectacular-but its default snooze times may or may not be ideal for your own personal schedule. Speaking of saving time, do yourself a favor and head into the Advanced section of the new Gmail settings (or the Labs section in classic Gmail) and enable “Canned Responses.” Once you do, you’ll be able to create simple templates that can then be inserted into messages with a couple of clicks.ģ. As long as “Writing suggestions on” is checked, you’re all set-and you should see Google’s predictive text show up periodically as you write new emails.Ģ. You can confirm by going back into the General tab of the settings and looking for the newly added Smart Compose option. After you click the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the screen, Gmail will refresh itself-and Smart Compose should then automatically be activated. To try it out, you’ll first need to turn on the “Enable experimental access” option within the General tab of the new Gmail’s settings. Smart Compose is like autocomplete for your inbox. It works surprisingly well, too, and it’s easy to ignore when its suggestions aren’t spot-on. Gmail’s new Smart Compose feature can save you precious time by predicting what you’re going to write before you write it-kind of like autocomplete for your inbox.

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