Searching an email in Gmail

Searching an email in thousands of emails on gmail is not a very difficult task if you do it in a proper way it can be done very easily. With a few easy tricks you can find exact messages you are looking for and for this you don't need to go through with all the emails one by one.

If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does the trick. I can just type dizyn in the gamil search box to get all of the messages from my friend dizyn, southwest to bring up my ticket confirmations, or "bank statement" to help get my finances in order.

But the real power of Gmail search lies in search operators -- words that help modify your queries. Search operators work pretty much the same way within Gmail as they do for Google. So, if I want the email Dizyn sent me with his flight information so I know when to pick her up at the airport, I type from:dizyn SFO. Likewise:

• A link from my co-worker Michael: from:michael http
• A photo from my mom: from:mom has:attachment
• That last chat I had with one of the Gmail product managers: keith is:chat
• All messages from ebay that aren't outbid notices: ebay -outbid (the hyphen tells Gmail to return all of the messages that don't contain the word that follows it)
• The messages in my inbox sent directly to me that I haven't read yet: to:me is:unread in:inbox

You can limit the scope of your search to a particular subject (subject:) or label (label:) as well. And you can get pretty fancy. Recently, I was trying to remember the date of my friend's April birthday. I always send her a birthday email, so I searched to:maya (birthday OR bday) after:2007/4/1 before:2007/5/1. It's the 19th.

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