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Humans are all complicated and nuanced, but email is very simple. You either have no unread emails
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or 4037. It's a simple binary. No matter how you manage your email, I have six pro tips for Apple Mail on iPhone and Mac
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Number one, redirect. So if you get an email that really should have been sent to somebody else
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the traditional way to do that is to forward it, but that leaves you at the mercy of anybody else
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to actually exclude you from the conversation going forwards. But when you redirect
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you're sending the original mail to somebody new and you're staying out of it completely
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To do this on the Mac, you need to add the redirect button to the toolbar
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So you'll right click on it, click customize toolbar, and just click and drag it in place
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As of right now, there's no way to do this on the iPhone or iPad, but maybe in a software update
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Number two, you can customize the swipe gestures. This makes it really fast to
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throw away emails without even reading them, but you can customize whether it goes to the trash
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or the archive folder. You'll just go to settings, mail, swipe options, and then you can pick what
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you want them to do. You have different options for both the left swipe and the right swipe
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On the Mac, you can change this if you go to mail, settings, and you go to the view tab
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Number three, you have additional categories of mail you can turn on. So from the message list
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you swipe back and then you have all these different mailboxes. If you tap the edit button
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you can turn on a bunch of extra smart folders and options. You can see threads that you've muted
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stuff that's just come in today, stuff with attachments, stuff from your VIP contacts
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and more. Number four, if you have a small screen on your Mac, you can use this custom mini window
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to save screen space. You hover the mouse over this divider in the middle and you click and
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drag it so the preview window is hidden. Then you go to view, hide sidebar in the menu bar. Then you
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can make the window really small and tucked away in the corner. Double click on a message and it'll
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open in a new window. That way the message window stays small, but you can still open up a bunch of
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emails even side by side with each other when you need to. And you can still navigate between all
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your different message lists by hitting command one through command seven. Number five, now how
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do you multitask in mail on the iPhone? You can post a new email and it fills the whole screen
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Well, you can drag the title bar down and then you can keep reading, browsing, searching for mail in
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the background. When you want to get back to it again, you just tap on the little minimized window
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on the bottom and you can keep typing away. You can even compose multiple emails at once. Hit the
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minimize toolbar at the bottom and you can quickly switch between them. Number six, you can get much
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better previews of the mail in your inbox. You go to settings, mail, preview, and you can turn it up to
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five lines. This way you can see much more of the email without opening every single email. On the
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Mac, this is in mail, settings, viewing, list preview. Those are all six of my tips today. I have further
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articles on how to schedule emails, undo send emails, how to use hide my email, all linked in
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the video description. I'm Deke Griffin-Jones with Cult of Mac
