
I won’t attempt a laundry list, but here are the ones that I find make an actual difference to my Gmail use, in rough order of importance.

I recommend being somewhat conservative in how many you enable at a time, since a flaky Gmail Labs feature can in theory cause Gmail to fail to load. (For Google Apps accounts, there’s a Settings link at the top instead of the gear icon.) Then scroll down through the long list of items, clicking the Enable radio button for any that look interesting. To access Gmail Labs, click the gear icon at the top of Gmail’s Web interface page and click Labs in the menu that appears. I presume these are the sort of features that Gmail’s product managers consider unnecessary for most users, but they’re made available to anyone who wants them, and some are essential to my workflow. But as much as I’ve liked using Gmail, the fact that it has met my needs in large part has been due to the optional enhancements provided by Google engineers via Gmail Labs. In this series so far, I’ve explained features of Gmail that are standard (see “ Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 1: Why I Switched”) and “ Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 2: Labels & Filters”). #1603: Replacing a 27-inch iMac, Luna Display turns a 27-inch iMac into a 5K display, OWC's affordable Thunderbolt 4 cables.#1604: Universal Control how-to, show proxy icons in Monterey, Eat Your Books cookbook index.

