Gmail recently brought out a feature which lets you search for Google Docs from within Gmail. This is a great feature as sometimes it is a bit boring to open Google docs landing page and then search for the document you need. This way I can search for it and open it from within Gmail.
How to use Gmail Search Mail and Docs?
- Need to enable a labs feature by looking up Settings >> Labs. Here enable Apps Search feature and save the settings.
- Now on search in mail chances to search with Mail and Docs. As you can see in the image below I could choose to only display Docs results if too many results showed up.
- When adding a new Labs feature one problem is slowing down Gmail but since I have started using this feature I have not noticed any slowdown when it came to searching for mails and docs alike.
What is missing from this feature?
Recently Gmail introduced a official multiple sign-in of Gmail accounts. I think this Mail and Docs search feature would be awesome if we could search from 2-3 different accounts using just one account. Now that feature would knock em dead! 
Try out Search Mail and Docs feature with Gmail and do let me know your views through your comments.
2 Comments
Cool Tip Buddy
Gmail is getting better day-to-day 
I always use it, really great! I have tons of mails and I use google docs regularly and keep a backup of my documents here to. Really useful and easy to search for what I need.