After a colleague at work taught me that I could increase the types of ☆ (stars) in Gmail, I immediately started using them.

• Reference: Using multiple types of stars (formerly Super Stars) - How to use Gmail

The setting to enable multiple stars can be done at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings.

Initially, I set it up to use all stars, but increasing the types made management complicated. So I narrowed down the star types and now only use red-bang, blue-info, and green-check in addition to the default star.

• has:yellow-star
• has:blue-star
• has:red-star
• has:orange-star
• has:green-star
• has:purple-star
• has:red-bang
• has:yellow-bang
• has:blue-info
• has:orange-guillemet
• has:green-check
• has:purple-question

That’s all from the Gemba.