Back when I was in college (which wasn't all that long ago), we used a command-line program called Pine to check our email. It was much faster than the school webmail, but you had to learn all these keyboard shortcuts just to get anything done. I remember sitting around the dorm, eagerly sharing tips with friends (like "Did you know that ^Y sends you to the previous message?")

Those days are over for most folks, and my friends and I now share tips with each other about how to be more efficient with Gmail. We thought lots of people would be interested in these kinds of tips, so we asked Googlers for their best tips and tricks on how they use Gmail, and put the best of these into a guide at www.gmail.com/tips, entitled "Become a Gmail Ninja."

We even made a printable version of the guide that you can pin to your wall or keep on your desk. You can buy your own laminated guide at www.barcharts.com/gmail.

If you're already a Gmail ninja and have your own tips you'd like to share, let us know and we'll add the best ones to the online guide.

*Our lawyers asked us to make sure it was clear that your contact information won't be maintained in any way and this offer is "void where prohibited and only while supplies last."

Posted by Zach Yeskell, Gmail marketing manager