I love gmail.  I’ve tried EVERY webmail service out there and gmail is by far my favorite.  However, there are lot of gmail features that are “hidden”.  One such feature is the search by date function.

To find a gmail email on a particular date you can just enter the date in the search field in YYYY/MM/DD format.  So let’s say you want to find all emails on March 19, 2009 you would enter in the search box:

2009/03/19

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You can also use the search terms “before” and “after” combined with a date to find all emails before or after a date:

after:2009/03/19

or

before:2009/03/19

You can even combine those into 1 search term to find all emails between a date range:

This search would return a result of all emails between February 2, 2009 and February 28, 2009.

Pretty neat huh?