Justin Dag

For a while now I’ve been wanting Google to add the ability to sort and filter my Gmail inbox.  I even went as far as requesting this feature be added, but not surprisingly it was ignored.   However, I have discovered a way to get at least the filtering part.

It’s not terribly intuitive, but makes some sense when you get used to Gmail.   The trick here is to use a “label search.”

To filter your inbox for all unread messages you would issue a search that looks like this:

label: Unread

For all “Starred” messages:

label:Starred

Hope this helps.