How to manage a Gmail account

For us the email communications having importance in our day to day life. It doesn’t matter whether it is personal life or official life, they are essential. Most of our interactions nowadays happen through mails. As an important medium in our life, we need to learn how to manage it. Here are some suggestions which you can adopt to your Gmail accounts and make use of your account in an effective way.

Clear your drive and photos

Google provides 15 GB of free space to its users. This space is shared by different google services. usually what people do is to use this space for google drive and photos. If you can remove this photos and take it’s back up in an external storage. You could utilise this for gmail. So the space can be utilised well by occupying mails.

Delete big mails

Over time, as you receive more and more mails, there will be big sized mails. It is better to delete such mails if you not feel that is not much important. It is better to remove mails that are above 20 MB. You may think how to find it. isn’t it ? type “larger : 20m” on your mail search bar. So such mails will be sorted. There you could delete them together. So always try to keep small mails.

Clear updates and promotions

The update and promotion mails are usually unnecessary mails.So emtying that regularly help you to save your gmail space. So you could focus on the mails which are important to you.

Clear the old ones

Find the old mails. There can be old personal interactions or such unimportant things over there. So find those things and delete and save your space. There is also a way for finding those mails together. “older_than: 1y” - type this on the search bar, a sorted list will appear. Just delete them.

You can buy space

In Google there is facility for buying space. Now Google gives 100 GB storage space for a price of $ 1.99 (around Rs. 120) per month. There are other plans too. you could select the plan based on your usage.