Advanced Gmail filters for work or school

When you’re creating a filter with your work or school account, try these ideas to organize your email.

Create a filter

1. Open Gmail.
2. In the search box at the top, click Show search options  .
3. Enter your search criteria. If you want to check that your search worked correctly, see what emails show up by clicking Search. 
4. At the bottom of the search window, click Create filter.
5. Choose what you’d like the filter to do.
6. Click Create filter.

Note: When you create a filter to forward messages, only new messages will be affected. ​Additionally, when someone replies to a message you've filtered, the reply will only be filtered if it meets the same search criteria. 

Choose what it should do

Description	Filter Criteria	Label or Action
Apply a label to email from anyone outside of your organization.	From: -@your_organization.com Example: [e-mail]	External
Apply a label to email from anyone inside your organization.	From: *@your_organization.com Example: *@solarmora.com	Internal
Apply a label to meeting invitations and skip sending them to the inbox. For more details, see Use filters to move Calendar responses out of your Gmail inbox.	Has the words: invite.ics	Calendar Skip the Inbox
Apply a label to promotional and other types of email and skip sending them to the inbox.	Has the words: category:promotion category:social category:update category:forum	Promotion Social Update Skip the Inbox
Apply a label to important email from your manager or anyone you don’t want to miss.	To: your_email@your_organization.com From: your_manager’s_email@your_organization.com OR your_director’s _email@your_organization.com (If you list more than one email address, you must include OR.) Example: To: [e-mail] From: [e-mail] OR  [e-mail]	VIP
Apply a label to email notifications when someone shares a Drive file with you.	From: [e-mail]	Drive Share
Apply a label to email marked urgent.	To: your_email+urgent@your_organization.com Example: To: [e-mail]	URGENT

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