Wish granted

Gmail is my email aggregator of choice. I use it to consolidate all my different email accounts and it works pretty well. Since it’s got a lot of storage, I also use it as my online briefcase, mailing links and attachments to myself. But since the Inbox is stuffed with thousands of emails, finding these mailed items can be a bit of a chore.

The awesome search feature allowed me to find these items by giving a search criteria of “from:me to:me”. But I wanted to save this search so that I wouldn’t have to type it over and over again – something like having a permanent link to click. I had submitted this wish to the Gmail team long ago and with their new Labs features, they have introduced “Quick Links”, which allows me to do exactly what I want.

Now I have a neat link which I can click to instantly get all the items I emailed to myself. Now if only I could get the Quick Links box to sit above the Labels box.