http://lifehacker.com/204793/gmail-tip--search-by-built-in-label
notes:
14'6/12 : good for search w/ dedicated label
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Gmail Tip: Search by built-in label
Gina Trapani
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Sure you can make your own labels in Gmail, but the system has a few baked in you can use to search your mail. The Google Operating System weblog lists these special labels Gmail automatically applies to messages, like "chats," "sent" and "inbox." Use the label operator and these instead of memorizing various advanced search operators like this:
*label:inbox- search only your Inbox.
*label:star (label:starred)- search only your starred messages.
*label:draft (or label:drafts)- search only unfinished messages.
*label:sent (or label:sentmail, label:sent-mail, label:sent mail )- search only sent mail. It may be useful to restrict your search only to messages you've sent, or only to messages you've received if you add a minus.
*label:all (or label:allmail, label:all-mail, label:all mail )- search all your mail, including messages from Trash (label:trash) and Spam (label:spam).
*label:readandlabel:unread. Restrict your search only to read mail or unread mail. For example, to find all your sent messages that have unread replies, you can search for label:unread label:sent.
*label:voicemail (or label:voicemails )- search only the voicemail received from a Google Talk user.
This is all well and good, but I usually search by person using the
to: and from: operators a whole lot, too.
Hidden Labels in Gmail [Google Operating System]
Adam Pash started this thread
Um... not sure if my comment went through. Was saying that if you check out Gmail'sAdvanced search page, you'll see that you could always search the trash, inbox, spam, etc. using the "in:inbox" operator. You can also search read/unread using "is:unread". It's sort of nice to see that Google's a bit lax on the search terms, though, since it can be hard to remember every operator everytime you want to make a complex query.
Adam Pash started this thread
Gmail must be a little lax on their search operators (which is cool w/me). For example, if you check out their Advanced search page, you'll see that for trash/inbox/spam/etc you can use "in:inbox". For unread/read, "is:unread" works.
Adam Pash started this thread
Great!
major disaster started this thread
major disaster
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applegrass, supposedly, you should be able to do that by searching this way: in the "doesn't have" field, type label:label name for each label you have, separated by OR. In theory, it should exclude all emails with any label. However, in practice, it's cumbersome if you have a lot of labels. More importantly, when I'ved tried this in the past, it hasn't worked (still identified many labeled emails).
I don't know why there isn't a simple way to do this, though. It seems like it would be a pretty easy thing for Google to implement. In any case, I've just gotten into the habit of making sure everything is labeled in some fashion so I can't "misplace" anything (and for things that don't go anywhere, I just have a "random" label as a placeholder till I decide to do something more specific).
bovious started this thread
Woo-hoo! I can search my trash! Hello, all those e-mails from Mom I accidentally deleted!
applegrass started this thread
Now what would be handy would be if you could search for email that you hadn't assigned a label - because then you can see which emails need organizing!
jonezy started this thread
applegrass, that's an interesting thought!
Prolific Programmer started this thread
Prolific Programmer
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Can you search your voicemail by content?
batman697 started this thread
How do you exclude a label? "-label:x" doesn't work.
batman697 started this thread
Nevermind...it's actually just a bug with a certain label...
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