Connect Gmail or Outlook

Connect your mailbox, file an email to a matter, and let the matter's label appear in every connected inbox.

On this page

Connect Gmail

Click Tools in the sidebar, then Gmail. Click Connect with Google.

On Google's screen, tick every permission and click Allow. You come back to the Gmail tool with your inbox loaded.

Tools > Gmail

Connect Gmail

Connect your Gmail account to view emails, assign them to projects, and sync project labels across your team.

Connect with Google

We only request access to read, label, and send emails.

Before any account is connected

Connect Outlook

Click Tools, then Outlook. Click Connect with Microsoft. Click Accept on Microsoft's screen.

Tools > Outlook

Connect Outlook

Connect your Outlook account to view emails, assign them to projects, and sync project folders across your team.

Connect with Microsoft

We only request access to read, categorise, and send emails.

Before any account is connected

Set the label format

In the Gmail tool, click Label settings. Type the parent label name and the code. Set the Archive and Leads label names.

Click Save. Only new labels use the new format. Existing labels keep theirs.

Label settings

Archive label nameGmail + Outlook
Archive
Leads label nameGmail only
Leads

Pick the source of truth accounts

Click Admin, then Email. Turn on the mailboxes whose labels the app should copy to everyone else.

Under Teammate copies, choose whether a filed email is copied to every teammate's inbox.

Admin > Email

sarah@northgate.com.au
priya@northgate.com.au

File an email to a matter

Open an email in the Gmail or Outlook tool. Search the matter and click it.

The matter's label is created and added to the email. It appears in every connected teammate's mailbox straight away.

Assigning an email

RE: Settlement date confirmationSmith Family Trust
MH
PS
JF
Labelled in every inbox

Check your mailbox

In Gmail, the matter is a child label under the parent label, named with the matter number, name and a five character code.

In Outlook, the matter is a subfolder under the parent folder plus a category of the same name.

In Outlook, a filed email you have not opened yet stays in your Inbox with the matter's category on it. It moves into the matter's subfolder once you open it. The same goes for a teammate's copy, which stays in their Inbox until they open it.

In Outlook, a teammate the email was not sent to gets their own copy in their Inbox, unread, with the matter's category on it. It comes from the original sender, with the original date. This needs Copy filed emails to every teammate's inbox turned on under Admin, then Email, which it is unless somebody turned it off.

In Gmail

Gmail
Search mail
S
Compose
Inbox4,598
Starred
Snoozed
Sent
Labels
Administration91
Compliance
Shared Emails
1000 - Leads226
250237 - Sale - 8 Rosslyn St [B7K2M]56
250291 - Unit Trust - Deed [Q4XR9]
250292 - Refinance - Ledger [T8N3P]2
250295 - Purchase - 41 Barkly [M2VD6]11
1 to 50 of 17,738
Renata Alvarez250237 - Sale - 8 Rosslyn StRe: Settlement date confirmation2:31 PM
PEXA250237 - Sale - 8 Rosslyn StAction required: invitation to participate2:06 PM
Dana Whitfield250295 - Purchase - 41 BarklyFwd: Loan approval1:31 PM
Marcus BellInvoice enquiry11:52 AM

One parent label, one child per matter