When they rolled out some new features in Gmail a while back, they changed their link structure a bit. This enabled a lot of productivity short cuts, my favorite of which is the bookmarking of searches.
This week I have been working on Blogtastique orders and I have been searching for emails sent to my address, with some specifics inside. I won’t really use this all the time, so creating a label is not necessary, but this week I have performed this search about 50 times. If you have similar need, here’s a handy tip to help you save some time.
Perform the search you need, and bookmark the result page like you would any other page. Press CTR+D (for IE and Firefox) and type a description and place the bookmark. Now when you navigate to that bookmark you will automatically go to the results of that search.
What I love about it is that if you do this in the same tab as you normal Gmail interface Gmail won’t be loaded again, so the results pop up in about 2 seconds. This trick can save your minutes each day, it has saved me at least an hour this week!
