If you’re like most people, Gmail is a great way to keep track of your email. But if you’re like me, you sometimes find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of email that’s in your inbox. To make sure that you’re getting the most out of your email account, I’ve put together a few tips to help you show only unread emails in Gmail.

  1. Sort your emails by subject or body content. This will help you see which emails are more important and need your attention.
  2. Filter out spam and other junk emails from your inbox. This will help keep your inbox clean and organized.
  3. Use filters to group related emails together so that you can easily find the ones that matter most to you. This will help keep your inbox manageable and organized

Note: of course, this isn’t really news to most serious geeks, but we’re out to help everybody.

Displaying Only Unread Emails in Gmail

Like we were mentioning above, if you use the drop-down and choose “Unread” from the list, all it’s going to do is select the checkboxes next to the unread messages in the list—not that useful for cleaning out your inbox.

Instead, all you need to do is type is: into the search box, and the search suggestions box will pop up and let you select the is:unread from the list—which, of course, you could also type into the box yourself.

And now, you’ll see all the unread messages in your email account.

Since that’s not quite as useful as what we really want, what you’ll want to do is add the label: operator to the search as well—using label:inbox on the end of the search will allow you to filter down to just emails in your inbox.

So there you go, the search that will show you all the unread emails in your inbox:

Enjoy cleaning out your inbox.