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Video converter for mac. Google's recently revamped Gmail website has a lot of — but the service's interface could still use some serious improvement. Plain and simple, the Gmail desktop site is busy and cluttered, particularly if you've spent any time working with its far more minimal and aesthetically pleasing Inbox cousin. So now that Inbox is, what's a discerning email user to do? Fear not, my friends, for there is hope yet. Just as you can — and make the Gmail Android app — with a teensy bit of effort, you can pare down Gmail's desktop interface and transform it into a calm and uncluttered center for email productivity. [Get fresh tips and insight in your inbox every Friday with JR's new.

Exclusive extras await!] Pictures are worth at least 997 words in situations like these, so let me begin by showing you what my own Gmail inbox looks like right now, in the days since I moved back into it from Inbox and set out to make the transition tolerable: (Click image to enlarge.) Quite a change from the default Gmail view, eh? As you can see, I've stripped away most of the superfluous text and buttons and left only the elements I actually need for my day-to-day email management.

Some of what I removed is just straight-up clutter — elements like the Google app icon and notification counter, typically in Gmail's upper-right corner, and all the terms and policy silliness in the site's footer — while some of it is legitimately functional stuff that I'd just as soon not have on my screen, such as the giant 'Compose' button that normally resides in the site's upper-left area. Since I almost always use Gmail's keyboard shortcuts for functions like composing new messages — which means I simply hit the letter 'c' whenever I want to write a new email instead of messing with my mouse — the 'Compose' button was completely redundant for me and accomplishing little more than creating clutter. So how can you go about enhancing your Gmail inbox interface in a similar manner?

Let's break it down: [ ] Step 1: Make sure you have Gmail's keyboard shortcuts enabled and configured the way you like Part of the super-minimalist approach I've created relies on the fact that I use keyboard shortcuts for common Gmail commands, as I mentioned a moment ago. If you're gonna eliminate the on-screen buttons for things like composing a new message, you'll need to first be sure you're comfortable using the associated keyboard shortcuts. Otherwise, you'll find yourself in quite the awkward pickle (and believe you me, 'awkward pickle' is not a positive description for anything). So first and foremost, confirm that you have keyboard shortcuts enabled: Go into Gmail's settings, scroll down the page until you see the 'Keyboard shortcuts' option (within the 'General' tab that comes up initially by default), click the button next to 'Keyboard shortcuts on,' and then scroll down and click the 'Save Changes' button at the bottom of the page.