Randy Dean shows three Gmail settings features: Undo Send now lets you delay sending by 10, 20, or 30 seconds. Writing Suggestions uses AI to complete sentences as you type. Nudges surfaces emails you missed or need to follow up on.
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Hey everybody, Randy Dean, Email Sanity Expert here. Hey, um, every now and then I like to just go into Gmail, into the settings, and see if they've added any cool new features in the settings. And it's been a little while since I've done that, but I found 3 new things. I don't know how new they are, but I found 3 new things that I think you might find pretty interesting. All right, so let's go out into my Gmail. And if we go into Gmail, remember the pathway when you're in Gmail from your inbox is to go into this little gear up here and go to see all settings. And if you do that, then you want to go under the General tab. And let me show you the 3— I'm going to move myself a little out of the way— the 3 that I really liked. One right here, Undo Send. They've now given you a chance to adjust the buffer. If you ever prematurely sent, you could adjust the buffer now to 10, 20, even 30 seconds, and you'd have time to call back that before it actually goes out. The next one that I thought was cool was, let's go down here, writing suggestions on. What that is, is that's where it does the predictive writing. You start typing and it builds out the words following. And if you hit the Tab, it'll actually put those words in. If you don't like what it's saying, you can keep typing, obviously, and type your own thing, but it'll actually allow you to do that really cool little way to fill in your text. And then the last one that I really liked is right here, it's Nudges. And what'll happen is, suggest emails to reply to. It'll actually appear at the top of the inbox, emails that maybe you didn't respond to, or emails to follow up on, ones you've sent, but you might need to send a follow-up. And so it's obviously using a little bit of AI to watch what's going on in your email and give you some tips on how to keep things moving. So those are the three. I think they're pretty cool little features. You might want to play around with them, see if you like them. If you do, send me a note, let me know what you think, because, um, If they work well, it'd be nice to see. You can even add it into the comments below. Once again, I'm Randy Dean, Email Sanity Expert. If you'd like to learn more about me, go check out my website, randaldean.com. I do have a set of productivity PDF tip sheets if you'd like to get those. One is my YouTube channel guide, which now has more than 100 of my past tip videos on it. And you just send me an email, randy@randaldean, and put YouTube PDF in the subject line. Please like, please subscribe, please share these videos.
