Gmail plus make your life easier π

I'm a full-stack developer from South Africa πΏπ¦. I love writing about JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Search for a command to run...

I'm a full-stack developer from South Africa πΏπ¦. I love writing about JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
I use 10 Minute Mail. Their service allows me to create a temporary email address that lasts for 10mins. I use this to signup to websites with whom I can't share my real email on account of ending up in their spam list. Those 10mins also allow me to validate it via the confirmation link those services send.
Nice tip!
Iβve used the + before when doing regression testing and needing to fake having multiple email accounts. But I never thought to use it and then create a subsequent filter for it in Gmail. Iβll definitely have to give that a try.
It's amazing for multiple purposes actually. Spam detection / Multi signup / And these filters

Most of you know me for my consistency, a golden arrow in my blog series. I've written 1000 articles in 1008 days! Almost an article a day, and my honeymoon was the only holiday I ever took. I'm super proud of this achievement; it has been a fantasti...

It's not the first time I'll be talking about community. I think it's an essential aspect of any successful tool. This shows in my previous explorations of Astro, Medusa, and now Vendure as well. All these products thrive in a super open, welcoming, ...

The cool part about Vendure is how easy it is to set up and how abstract each layer is. Basically, we get the following elements: External database Server Worker Admin UI Frontend While this is amazing, it also brings a bit of complexity when it co...

The previous article looked at customizing Vendure on a data and process level. In this article, we'll look at customizing emails, as they are often a big part of a webshop system. We'll be looking at two different layers of customization for customi...

Even though Vendure is a pretty significant project out of the box, in some cases, we might want to go in and modify some elements to work to our specific use case. In this article, I'll take a high-level look at some elements we can customize within...

3.9 billion users, yes Gmail is massive and has a lot of cool features.
Today we will be looking at the Gmail + plus action to make your life easier!
Nowadays, we get so much email and it gets cluttered quickly.
Note: Check out my article on achieving Inbox Zero
In Gmail you get a specific email address let's say:
[email protected] or [email protected]
You can also use a plus to receive certain emails:
[email protected] or [email protected]
These will arrive in your normal mailbox!

That is already very cool. You can use it to sign into one service with the same address (Twitter personal + business)
But, we are using it to put emails in certain categories!
First, go to the filter section and add a new filter:

Within this filter, type the email address in the To field.

Hit the Create filter button
Then we can set up our filter however we like. In my case I'm only sending these emails to a specific category, but you could also mark them as read for instance.

That's it! Emails send to [email protected] will now end up in my Social category.
Have fun, and create some amazing filters to make your life easier! π
Thank you for reading my blog. Feel free to subscribe to my email newsletter and connect on Facebook or Twitter