
All the starred messages will be available in the Starred menu on the left. See the Star on the left of an email? Press it, and you’ll have starred that message. That’s where I use the Gmail Stars feature. Also, the Label will light up every time there’s a new message that matches the filter.īut not all those emails will be important. All the emails will skip the inbox, archiving under the new Label.

Let’s say I just created a label with Gmail’s simple filter tool above for a specific contact I email with frequently. In addition to Labels, I also use Stars to organize my Gmail inbox. Image source: Chris Smith, BGR How to use Gmail Stars to organize your inbox Creating a filter in Gmail that archives incoming emails and applies a filter automatically.
