Gmail Tutorial

About this video

Jess Stratton gives a comprehensive Gmail tutorial for beginners and experienced users. She tours the interface — left navigation, Compose, Google apps grid, account switching, and the right-side quick-access panel for Calendar, Keep, Tasks, Contacts, and add-ons — and shows dragging an email into Tasks, creating a Calendar event from an email, and saving content to Keep. She covers the tabbed inbox (Primary, Promotions, Social, and enabling Updates), the Purchases view, and dragging mis-sorted mail between tabs. Composing is detailed: To/CC/BCC, formatting, drafts, schedule send, attachments via paperclip, inline photos with resizing, and inserting Drive files, noting files over 25 MB are automatically uploaded to Drive and shared as a link. She then covers enabling and using templates, creating multiple signatures, and setting a vacation responder with date ranges. Reply, Reply All, Forward, editing subjects to split threads, and per-message actions in long threads are explained, along with snoozing, hover actions (unsubscribe, track package, review activity), archiving versus deleting and All Mail, labels (including nested and colored labels, Move To, and multiple labels per email unlike folders), managing subscriptions and bulk-deleting Promotions, stars with custom meanings and search operators like has:red-bang, filters/rules that label, archive, or auto-reply with a template, and advanced search — including that Trash and Spam are labels retained for 30 days. A bonus tip sets a daily agenda email from Google Calendar settings.

Key takeaways

• Customize the tabbed inbox by enabling the Updates tab, and use the Purchases view and drag-between-tabs to keep Primary clean and correctly sorted
• Attachments over 25 MB cannot be sent directly; Gmail automatically uploads them to Google Drive and sends the recipient a download link
• Labels are tags, not folders: one email can carry multiple labels, stay in All Mail, and be found by label search even after archiving
• Filters automate incoming mail — apply a label, skip the inbox, or send a template reply — and can also be applied retroactively to matching messages already received
• Snooze, archive, and stars provide a triage system: snooze returns mail at a chosen time, archive removes it from the inbox but keeps it searchable, and custom stars encode personal meanings searchable with operators

Episode details: published January 21, 2026 · 37:11 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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