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Gmail is the free email account from Google is the only email that I use. It was released by Google on 1st April 2004 with the initial storage of 1GB. Back then, everyone thought it was a April’s fool hoax from Google. Now Gmail offers practically unlimited storage space for everyone. Gmail’s storage will increase with 145 MB a year (equating to almost 0.4 MB per day. There are plenty of shortcuts in Gmail. Some are very useful too. Here’re the top 5 simple Gmail shortcuts that I think every Gmail user should know.

1. Delete Mails. Even though Gmail’s storage is increasing day by day, sometimes we still want to delete some of the unwanted mails from our mailbox. If you are reading a message in GMail, press the # key (Shift+3) and that message will instantly move to Trash.

2. Mute conversation. The conversation view groups related messages in a linear stack that can be expanded and collapsed. There is no option to differentiate messages that branch off from the original thread. This can occur when mail is sent to multiple recipients who respond individually, or when someone changes the subject line of a message he or she is responding to. To disable never-ending email threads, just mute the conversation with the Gmail keyboard shortcut “m” - The message is immediately removed from the Inbox view and all future messages.

3. Report Spam. Everyone hates spam. To mark a message as spam and removes it from your conversation list, just press shift+1, or the exclamation mark, “!”.

4. Archive your mails. By pressing “y”, Gmail will automatically removes the message or conversation from your current view to archive.

• From ‘Inbox,’ ‘y’ means Archive
• From ‘Starred,’ ‘y’ means Unstar
• From any label, ‘y’ means Remove the label

5. Give your mail a Star. By pressing “s”, you can add or remove a star to a message or conversation. Stars allow you to give a message or conversation a special status and your mail can be easily accessible later.

To know more about all the gmail shortcut keys, you can view it at Gmail Help Center, or get yourself a copy of printable gmail cheatsheet.

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