{"id":112642,"date":"2020-05-08T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:40:00","slug":"how-to-show-only-unread-messages-in-primary-gmail-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/08\/how-to-show-only-unread-messages-in-primary-gmail-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Show Only Unread Messages in Primary Gmail Tab?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a small trick I learned the hard way. When working through the massive amounts of emails, I often wondered: how to get only the unread ones in Gmail that are also in the primary tab?<\/p>\n
Queries like these happen quite frequently when working with Gmail. As it turns out, there’s a simple solution:<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Simply type the following command in your search bar:<\/p>\n
in: category:primary is:unread<\/code><\/p>\n
For coders, this is an easily understandable filter operation. We want to retrieve all emails from your inbox (in:<\/code>) that are also in your primary tab (category:primary<\/code>) and that are also unread (is:unread<\/code>). <\/p>\n
As it turns out, Gmail comes with powerful filtering options even way beyond what you’ve seen here. Here are all the search and filtering operators in Gmail (screenshot from this source<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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