There are numerous ways that you can consider marking an email in your Gmail account as urgent when sending an important email to your recipient(s). While one of the ways to do so is by adding a relevant heading to the subject of your email, another method involves creating a filter that will automatically apply a label to your emails. Doing so will make your Gmail account mark an email with a yellow marker next to the name of the sender of an important message. Moreover, there is also an option to configureyour inbox to prioritize email messages for you. To know about these different methods to mark an email as urgent, follow the information provided below.
Methods to Mark Email in Gmail Account as Urgent
Method 1: Use Subject Field
- To begin with, you will first need to launch a web browser on your phone or computer and log in to your Gmail account.
- Once you have successfully logged into your Gmail account, you will need to click on the Compose button in the left-side panel. Doing so will open an email composition box on your screen.
- In the composition box of your Gmail account, you will simply need to add the email address of the recipient(s) to whom you want to send the message.
- Once you have added the recipient, you will need to type a note in the “Subject” field. You can create the subject using {IMPORTANT}, {URGENT} or {NEED APPROVALL} etc.
NOTE: You can also add a red color exclamation mark “! ” before adding the notein the Subject field to Markan email as an important one.
- When you have followed the above-mentioned steps, compose your email and click on the Sendbuttonto send the message.
Method 2: Label an Email Message
The second method you can consider to mark an email as important is bycreating labels in your Gmail account to classify incoming emails as important automatically. Below are the steps that you will need to follow in this method:
- Launch a web browser on your phone or computer and navigate to your Gmail account, Make sure that you are logged into your Gmail account.
- Once you are signed into your Gmail account, simply click or tap on the Settings option (Gear icon) located near the upper-right corner of the screen. Doing so open a menu on your screen.
- From the menu displayed on your screen, select the See all settings option. This will take you to the settings section of your Gmail account.
- In the settings section of your Gmail account, click or tap on the Labels tab.
- When you get to the Labels tab, scroll down to the Labels section and click on the “Create new label” option.
- Now, enter a suitable title for your new label in the provided field (for example, IMPORTANT or URGENT) and click on the Create button.
Method 3: Filter & Auto label
If you wish to set up your Gmail account to prioritize email from certain people, you will need to make certain changes in the settings of your Gmail account to filter such email addresses for you and give them an appropriate label accordingly. In order to know how you can prioritize your email, follow the below-mentioned steps:
- Start by launching a web browser on your computer and log in to your Gmail account.
- When you have signed into your Gmail account, you will need to click or tap on the Down Arrow iconnext to the search box located in the top section.
- Next, you will need to provide your search criteria in the provided fields. To know whether or not your search system is functioning correctly, you will need to see the emails appear by clicking or tapping the Searchoption.
- Now, you will simply need to click or tap on the Create filter option located at the lower section of the search window.
- Next, you will need to make the changes depending on the actions you want your filter to take.
- After that, simply click on the Create filter option, and you are done. You have successfully created a filter to automatically mark certain emails as important.
So, these are the different solutions that you can follow to mark an email as urgent or important in your Gmail account.