To organize your emails into categories like Work or Personal, you can create labels in Gmail. Then you can create a filter to automatically route emails to labels. Labels are different from folders:

• Only you can access your labels.
• The people you email don’t get them.
• When you delete an email, it’s removed from every label and your inbox.

These instructions were adapted from a Google Support article on creating Labels. To learn more, read the Google Label management support article.

Step 1: Create a label

1. On your computer, go to UMD Gmail.
2. On the left, next to Labels, click the plus icon to create a new label.
   
3. Enter a label name.
   
   • You can optionally include your label in another label; check the box next to Nest label under.
4. Click Create.
   

Step 2: Create a filter that automatically labels emails

1. In the search box at the top, click the Show search options button.
   
2. Enter terms to match specific messages. For example:
   • To filter and label emails from specific senders, in the From: field, enter the email addresses.
   • To find emails about payments, you might enter the word payments in the Has the words: field.
3. Click Create filter.
4. Scroll to Apply the label: and check the box and select a label.
   
5. Click Create filter.