If you struggle to keep your inbox clean and free of unread items, consider yourself one of many. With Gmail growing 43 percent in users and visits last year alone, Google developers were smart to help users stay organized by developing a “send and archive” feature allowing users to archive items immediately after sending them. Inboxes shrink, productivity increases. Brilliant.
Adam Ostrow of Mashable explains further, “Yet another new feature in Gmail Labs to report: a “send and archive” button, that, when enabled (from the “Labs” page under “Settings”), allows you to reply to a thread and have it immediately archived.
Like all archived messages, these threads will still be available in the “All Mail” folder of Gmail, which also includes labeled messages that you filter out of the Inbox.”
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