Add email aliases to personal Gmail accounts

Creating email aliases for work emails is common, but did you know you can also create emails aliases for your (at)gmail(.)com email address using Gmail+ email aliases? Example: if your email is bobsmith(at)gmail you can create an alias email such as bobsmith+myamazonorders(at)gmail, use that alias for receiving emails and they will come to the inbox for your primary email account.

Here are the steps:
1. Log in to your personal gmail account in a browser
2. Go to the Settings gear icon at the top right
3. See all settings
4. Go to the Accounts and Import tab
5. Navigate down to Send Email As section
6. Click on Add another email address
7. The the email address box type your email addres and a + sign and whatever you want to add to it (ex: bobsmith+myamazonorders(at)gmail, but use the actual at sign. LinkedIn keeps trying to link when I attempt to use it in a post.
8. Make sure the "Treat as an alias" box is checked

Now you can use this alias email as a filter or in some cases to sign into a website that is having problems directing you do different sign-in functions using the same email address.

MailMeteor has a good write-up outlining the steps here: https://mailmeteor.com/blog/gmail-alias

Streak has a blog post about the process here: https://www.streak.com/post/gmail-plus-addressing-trick

*kudos to Streak for the cool graphic below this post.