Okay here’s the thing over the years Apple has quietly loaded its mail app with very impressive features arguably making it the best email app for your Mac for starters I’ve just found out recently that you can drag any file onto the mail app icon to directly attach it to a new email what’s more you can schedule that email to go out early next morning say 6:00 a.m. pretending you’re the first one up at work just be ready for any surprisingly early call backs.
And for those email you need to get back to later why not use some color to make them easier to spot but how did you get that color wheel into your toolbar you might ask great question glad you asked so to answer that let’s get six quick ways to customize your mail app out of the way back to the Top If we right click the toolbar and pick customize toolbar we can drag out any features we don’t need Plus what’s even more exciting drag in a few new features like here it is the color wheel or a mark as red and unread button or the very useful add to contact option which lets you throw a sender into your contact app with just one click and you might have guessed it the toolbar in the new email window.
Is customizable as well and quite frankly it’s even more useful there we can add options to create a checklist quickly change the phone size or append an email we’ll get to what that last feature can do in just a bit but before let’s dig a bit deeper into the maze settings under viewing where we can choose to make each image preview either very compact by only showing the sender and subject or opt for a ria view with up to five email preview lines but wait there’s more right here in the view menu for even more preview space we can switch on the bottom preview very Niche but you might find that layout better than the one on the side and have been times where I had to skim through hundreds.
Of emit at once to clean up my inbox and switching to the column layout proved to be a real timesaver it’s the most compact old school looking view you can get but it means we can scan through dozens of emit at a glance and I like this last one activate the tab bar and you can use your mail app just like any web browser with multiple tabs open the point being when working on a small MacBook screen Tabs are often much easier to deal with than hundreds of Windows Now customization is fun but it’s more or less common in any email app so let’s dive into the four features making apple mail truly special.
And if you know about all of them you’re certainly taking the email game to the moon for starters I don’t use one two or three email addresses I use over 200 not that I want to flex because you can do so too with the height my email feature buil right into Apple ma it’s simple if you’re an iCloud user you can generate unlimited random email addresses either with autofill while signing up to a website or newsletter through the iCloud settings or by selecting the cender field in a new email.
I basically use a new email address for every single sign up.
I make and that’s really because of two huge benefits one your actual email address stays private and two because you can simply cut off any future emails from someone by completely deleting your random email address real Lifesaver when you’re still haunted by ads from a shop where you placed one order 3 years ago can’t even remember that one this next one’s really important the protect mail activity option in the privacy settings believe it or not simply opening an email can expose exactly when and how often you’ve opened that email your rough location and much more.
So activating this privacy feature should in theory stop this from happening now you know how I said Apple Mail is the best email app for your Mac well that’s largely thanks to how well it works with all the other stuff on your Mac let me show you if we save an attachment from an Incoming Email we get this mail icon right next to the document in the finder meaning we can get to the corresponding email anytime with one click but that’s not all dragon in email into reminders creates a new reminder with the subject of that email plus another email button to directly open the message and the exact same thing works in Apple notes the point being the main app.
Is surprise designed to blend in perfectly with Mac OS as a whole as if it’s designed by Apple themselves oh and before I forget of course this also includes easily finding emit using Spotlight search with a small twist type in one or more keywords but then add kind colon email and Spotlight search will filter only for emails with that specific keyword and if you hit the space bar you can preview the content of any followed email without even opening the mail app okay that was a lot to take in so let us pick up the speed again and dive into some very quick but hidden mail hacks and I have a feeling you’ll enjoy those you can use your trackpad.
Or Magic Mouse to swipe an email to the left or right for some quick actions just like on iPhone including the remind me feature pinning the selected email to the top of your inbox plus sending you another notification when you’ve got time to get back to it and you might have missed this one instead of using websites like we transfer send your bigger fights with may drop it works with any file up to 5 gigs and the recipient gets 30 days to download it plus it’s completely free and doesn’t count against your iCloud storage back to the append button we’ve talked about earlier we can use it to attach any currently selected email in our inbox.
To our draft and everyone’s been through this but if you made an embarrassing mistake in the email you’ve just sent off you’ve got a full 10 seconds to hit the undo send button just in time bonus sip in the composing settings you can increase the scend delay to up to half a minute staying in the settings under rules we can let Apple Mail automatically color code incoming emits that meet any of the conditions you select you might have noticed before that Apple cheekily highlights its own emit to you by default.
So you can change that here oh and this is actually the place where you can set any rules like automatic replies to certain senders automatic forwards or a custom notification sound for certain emit there’s really a lot to explore here speaking of which the search bar is smarter than you might think you can search quite naturally so just for example look for emits from only last weekend for certain attachment names or for emit from specific senders at certain dates well I’ve got a few there I still need to reply to which is easier than ever because.
I just let chat GPT get them done for me and casually reply to those emit in just a few seconds whoa wait a sec I know what you’re thinking how did he get chat get to type natively in his mail app on his Mac well you will find out if you watch this video next all right I will see you there thank you so much for watching and have an amazing day.
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