Search by star or icon

How it works

has: accepts stars (yellow-star, orange-star, red-star, purple-star, blue-star, green-star) and icons (red-bang, orange-guillemet, yellow-bang, green-check, blue-info, purple-question).

Examples

• has:yellow-starOpen in Gmail ↗

  Messages with a yellow star.

• has:yellow-star OR has:purple-questionOpen in Gmail ↗

  Yellow star or purple question mark.

What it does well

• Lets you build your own visual priority system, then find it again through search.

What it does badly

• Only works if you have turned on the different stars in your settings: otherwise only the default star exists.Documented by Google · Gmail Help: search operators

See also

• is:Finds messages that are important, starred, read, unread or muted.
• has:Finds messages containing an attachment, a YouTube video, a Drive file or a Google document.
• OR{ }Keeps messages that match at least one of the criteria.