Filter Your Gmail Inbox to Show Only Unread Messages

Everyone I know seems to love Gmail, which is odd, really, when you consider that it makes so many things so darned difficult. One such task: Just show me my unread messages. Incomprehensibly, there's no button or menu item for that. Well, fret not. Here's now to do it.

If you want to see only the unread messages in your Gmail inbox, just enter this in the search box at the top of the page:

is:unread label:inbox

Note that if you stop before adding label, you'll see all the unread messages in Gmail regardless of where they're stored. And that can come in handy on occasion as well. [via HowToGeek]

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Dave Johnson is editor of eHow Tech and author of three dozen books, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera. Dave has previously worked at Microsoft and has written about technology for a long list of magazines that include PC World and Wired.

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