Emails come in throughout the day — sometimes at really inconvenient moments. If you don’t have the time to deal with an email when it appears or if you want to get back to it later and you’re afraid you’ll forget about it, you can use Gmail’s snooze feature.
Snoozing an email means that it will disappear for a while and then come back to the top of your inbox at a time you pick, as though you’re receiving it all over again.
Here’s how to snooze your emails.
- In your inbox, hover over the email that you want to snooze. You’ll see a row of icons on the right-hand side.
- Click on the one that looks like a clock.
Hover over the message to see the snooze button.
- Alternatively, you can select the message or messages you want to snooze using the checkboxes and then click the clock icon that appears above the inbox
- You can also find the clock icon at the top of the screen when you open the email
- In any case, when you click the clock icon, you’ll see a drop-down list of suggested times. Click on whichever one best suits you.
You can choose one of the suggested times or set your own.
- If none of the times shown fit when you want to receive the message, you can click on “Pick date & time” at the bottom of the drop-down menu to set your own.
- A pop-up window will open. Once you’ve chosen your time and date, click “Save.”
Set the time you’d like to receive the email in this window.
- The email will disappear from your inbox and will reappear at the top at the time you’ve chosen
- If you want to be reminded about which emails you’ve snoozed, you can access them by clicking “Snoozed” on the left-hand side under “Inbox”
- To undo a snoozed email, open it in the Snoozed folder and click “Unsnooze” at the top of the screen