Find Unread Emails in GMail
I don’t consider myself a power Gmail user, in the contrary I know a lot of folks that manage their email inbox with a ton of labels and special filters. What I am is curious and of the school of thought that you should address all your email messages as soon as possible. I like a clean inbox with no unread messages because unread message just scream ‘deal with me’.
In Gmail, I was looking for a way to show all of my unread emails in one view. I have a modest inbox with 3000+ emails. Out of those 3000+ emails I have 4 unread messages. I simply don’t have the time or desire to navigate through pages of emails to track those few unread messages and deal with them accordingly. I looked all around for an option that would allow me to view all unread email in one view but to no avail. I looked in the More Actions and the different default folders such as Inbox, Starred, etc.
I eventually found how to see all unread email message after noticing that when you click on the Trash folder the search box will display the search query in:trash. It dawned on me that I might be able to read all unread email messages in one page view if I enter in:unread in the search box instead. As you may imagine, in:read also works and give a listing similar to what you get when you log into GMail.