Thanks to commenter Chris who alerted me to a new Google Sheets Add-On called Labels Manager.

Label ALL of the results with a new “LABELED” label (or whatever you want).First search for every message that HAS a label ( has:userlabels).Method 4 - Desperate Measuresįinally, if all else fails, you can use this roundabout method from Federico (comment from ): So what I’ve done is simply create a shortcut (aka bookmark), which you can do quite easily and it works up until you add a new label, but then it’s just a simple matter of editing the bookmark. If you do this more than once, typing in all your labels in the arcane syntax Gmail uses gets old.

-label: -label:label-three -label:label-four -in:sent -in:chat -in:inbox.Method 3 - Highly reliable but a pain in the butt.has:nouserlabels -in:sent -in:chat -in:draft -in:inbox.Method 2 - Simple but doesn’t work for everyone.This is a pretty long article, so I’ve organized this article into sections - click any link below to jump directly to the section that solves your problem. (NOTE: I update these periodically to incorporate new user comments.)īelow the links is a Prefaceon my original motivation and my current feeling about labeling or not. But you don’t want to wade through the whole set of emails manually, right?Ī little filter magic will sort this out in no time. So how do you find GMail message with no label? It will include a lot of email threads with labels. Unfortunately, this still doesn’t work reliably for me (updated March 2019).

So you want to find unlabeled GMail messages.Įasy, right? You just search on has:nouserlabels (see Method 2 below). Maybe you need to clean out a bunch of cruft and your unlabeled email is usually not important. You want all your GMail messages to have a label, maybe several.

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