https://www.jimdeibele.com/categories/gmail/ Recent content in Gmail on Jim Deibele's Blog Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jimdeibele.com/posts/gmail-filters-avoid-using-list/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jimdeibele.com/posts/gmail-filters-avoid-using-list/ <p>Filters in <a href="https://mail.google.com">Gmail</a> are incredibly useful but about 50% of the time the default is to see something like this:  </p> <p><img alt="image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.jimdeibele.com/posts/gmail-filters-avoid-using-list/gmail-filter-screenshot.png"></p> <p>This is an example of what programmers call a &ldquo;write only&rdquo; command.   Why?  Because a few months or weeks from now - or even tomorrow - you&rsquo;ll have no idea what this corresponds to.</p> <p>You&rsquo;re much better off putting in &ldquo;From: somecompany.com&rdquo; or &ldquo;Subject: [list prefix]&rdquo; in your filters so that you can remember what they mean.</p>