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New official 'Gmail Meter' shows your email habits


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Users of Google’s Gmail can learn more about their email habits with a Google Apps script dubbed “Gmail Meter.”
 
Google Developer Programs Engineer Saurabh Gupta said the tool, developed by contributor Romain Vialard, can tell a user how much emails he or she reads, and how fast he or she replies.
 
“Gmail Meter is an Apps Script which runs on the first day of every month and sends you an email containing different statistics about your Inbox. In a similar way to how recently introduced Google Account Activity gives key stats about how you’ve used your Google Account, Gmail Meter gives you different types of statistics that will help you analyze your Gmail habits,” Gupta said in a blog post.
 
Such statistics can help a Gmail user become “more email efficient,” Gupta added.
 
Among the statistics the tool displays are:
 
  • Volume Statistics: show the number of important and starred messages, the number of people who sent you emails, and more. They can be useful in determining how you are using email efficiency tools like Priority Inbox.
  • Daily Traffic: an estimate of when you receive messages and when you send them during a given month.
  • Traffic Pattern: gives a sense of your overall email activity over the past week.
  • Email Categories: tells how you are managing your Inbox.
  • Time Before First Response: shows you how long it takes you to reply, and how long it takes others to reply to you.
  • Word Count: tells whether you are writing long emails.
  • Thread Lengths: help you understand whether you participate in long conversations resulting in long threads. It also includes Top Senders and Top Recipients that help a user identify who he or she communicates with more frequently.
 
Setting up Gmail Meter takes the following steps:
 
  1. Go to Google Docs and open a Spreadsheet.
  2. Click on Tools > Script Gallery.
  3. Search for “Gmail Meter” and click Install. You will now see a new menu item called Gmail Meter on your spreadsheet.
  4. Click on Gmail Meter > Get a Report. You can then choose the type of report.
 
 — TJD, GMA News
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