Drag and drop attachments from Gmail to desktop

A few months ago Gmail introduced a new feature which made it very easy to add attachments by drag and dropping attachments onto your email. The feature was simply drag and dropping these attachments from your desktop or a folder on your compter onto your browser which had Gmail open.

Now Gmail recently announced that you can do the reverse that is move a attachment from your email onto the desktop.


This actually improves the Email experience and makes the usual Email clients quite useless. I like this features as often you end up looking at downloading or opening a file as a Google Document. This way I can just download it on my desktop and look it up.

If I want to use it for another mail, I just need to drag and drop it back into the mail I am composing.

This is a great way to make a browser interface more and more in line with the window interface. Especially when it comes to handling files.

Lately Gmail has introduced quite a few changes including rich text editors for stylish signatures, Google Maps integration with Gmail and more.

Do try out the new reverse drag and drop attachments feature on Gmail and drop in your comments with your views.

Gmail to see all unread messages together

It is always a good idea to read and respond to all your incoming mails as soon as possible. However more often than not we do not manage to read all the messages due to time constraint. When you get the time to go through the messages the read and unread messages get mixed up and it becomes quite cumbersome to browse through the pages looking for the unread messages. Even then you run the risk of missing some important message.

As usual the engineers at Google have provided a really simple trick to get all the unread messages together so that you can go through them without any problem. Type one of the following search strings into gmail search box and hit enter.

1. label:unread in:inbox
2. label:unread label:inbox

Alternatively you may use the advanced search feature of gmail to see all the unread messages together.

Go to the gmail advanced search screen.
There is a drop down on the search box. Select the option ‘unread mail’ from the dropdown (see the dropdown)
Hit search and you shall have all the unread messages at one place.