How To Quickly Find Your Reader Emails
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Here’s a quick tip to prevent your reader emails from getting lost among your other emails - Use Labels in Gmail.
It’s a very simple tip and one that some may have not thought about but very useful to read through all your reader emails at once instead of searching for them.
I use the PXS-Mail WordPress Plugin to create the contact form on this blog and have set the default subject for the email send by the reader as ‘From JohnTP.com’.
I then created a filter in Gmail so that all emails with subject ‘From JohnTP.com’ will have the ‘JohnTP.com’ label applied. This way most of the reader emails can be read via the label (some change the subject, but I have found that many don’t).
Gmail started allowing its users to apply a color to the labels recently which can also be helpful to quickly find your reader emails among other emails.
You may also create a separate Gmail account for just receiving reader emails.
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Posted on December 8th, 2007 | Category: Blogging |
David Bradley
December 10, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Nice idea. I find that most of the supposed “reader” feedback I receive via my contact form is just spam, this tip provides a neat way to spot and filter that out if GMail hasn’t already spiked it
db
JohnTP
December 11, 2007 at 11:42 am
I also receive spam via my contact form, but I created a filter so that it gets automatically deleted