Misc tip: search for all unread mail in Gmail

Posted by David Yahalom under General IT

For ages I’ve looked for a way to quick search for all unread mail in Gmail.

I need this because most of the time I let a few unimportant (read: advertisements) emails slip by me without reading them or marking them as read. After time, this list grows and I find it annoying to always receive notifications as if I have unread mail in my inbox (I have unread mail, it is just unimportant mail I forgot to mark as read).

Well, there doesn’t seem to be a way to search for only unread mail using Gmail’s interface but there is quick way around this.

Just type:

is:unread

Into the search box!