1) Access Settings

2) Go to the “Inbox” tab

3) From here there are many options available to you. You can choose your inbox type, which is essentially how it will be organized

4) Which categories will appear - they will be tabs at the top of your inbox

5) The tabs, which help to organize messages, do a pretty good job of auto-filtering, you can always move a message from one tab to the other by dragging and dropping it from one tab to the one you want it in

6) You can assign markers to indicate important, messages, or messages that require addition attention

Without markers

With markers

As well as applying “Smart markers” which will be automatically applied based on previous marker usage

7) You can also set a filter to be overridden (or not)

SOURCE MATERIAL:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6562?hl=en

https://support.google.com/mail/topic/3394219

VIDEO TUTORIAL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKUwMM67DIo&list=UUdgTksw283OFC78pFcwXIdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPESdlRYF9A&list=UUdgTksw283OFC78pFcwXIdA&feature=c4-overview