---
title: "Reading & organising"
description: "What happens between mail arriving and you deciding what to do about it."
url: "https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading"
area: "Knowledge base"
category: "Reading & organising"
---

# Reading & organising

What happens between mail arriving and you deciding what to do about it.

## In this section

- [Search by words or meaning](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/search.md): Forgiving words, operators like from: and has:, and search by meaning, inside the folder you are reading.
- [Read in your language](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/translate-read.md): A message you cannot read, turned into a language you can, without leaving it.
- [Labels](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/labels.md): Name a label, pick a colour, and filter the list down to it.
- [AI labels](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/ai-labels.md): Say what a label is for in plain words, and AI adds it to new mail that fits.
- [Inbox tabs](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/inbox-tabs.md): The inbox sorted into Primary, Promotions, Updates, Social and Forums, so mail from people comes first.
- [Thread notes](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/notes.md): Keep a private note attached to a thread.
- [Analytics & graphs](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/insights.md): What your mailbox is actually doing, drawn rather than guessed at.
- [Contacts](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/contacts.md): An address book that syncs with your phone, and the people you write to offered as you type.
- [Keyboard-first](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/shortcuts.md): Search is /, the assistant is ⌘0, and the list moves under the arrow keys.
- [Sign-up forms for audiences](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/audience-forms.md): A form on your website, or a hosted link, that adds whoever fills it in to an audience.
- [Snooze](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/snooze.md): Put a conversation away until a time you pick, and find it back in the inbox then.
- [Mute](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/mute.md): Silence a conversation you no longer need to follow. New replies skip the inbox and alert nobody.
- [Audiences](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/audiences.md): Named lists of your contacts, filled by hand or from a CSV file, to send to and to watch grow.
- [New-mail alerts](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/notifications.md): A desktop alert and a chime when mail arrives while Nextmail is open in a tab.
- [Verification codes](https://nextmail.sh/docs/knowledge/reading/verification-code.md): The sign-in code from a verification email, at the top of the message with a button to copy it.