Gmail's Social and Promotions

Submitted by jocee on Sun, 01/31/2016 - 12:09

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Anybody have any sugestions on how to get notification if something is in these lables? Now the choices are theprimary and spam. Personally I have used then to separate my emails but still would like to know when something arrives. Thanks for any thoughts

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jeroen

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 03:50

These "smart-labels" are called Categories in Gmail.
You get notified for receiving messages in Categories by unchecking Notify inbox only.
When you use filter(s) to apply a label to incoming messages while skipping the inbox (archiving) these get notified too in this case. 

jocee

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 05:41

Thanks I tried it one of my accounts and then it showed there were 10 message but when I went to that account nothing was there, tried it in another and the same thing happened. Sorry I am not savvy with this stuff

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jeroen

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 05:52

Copy/paste is:unread in the search field.

jocee

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 07:50

???

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jeroen

Mon, 02/01/2016 - 09:12

I assume you click the X-notifier icon notifying a number of messages  and that takes you to the Gmail page.

On top of that page you see a big inputfield where you can type is:unread and hit the Enter key on your keyboard. That will show all your unread messages excluding your spam. To show spam type in:spam.