Background

I've been using Gmail for a number of years; there are many features that I like but one annoying aspect of Gmail is not having a quick view to see all of your unread messages. I have always manually looked through my inbox to see all the unread messages.  If you receive a lot of messages and/or have (unread) messages spanning multiple pages, this task can be time consuming and tedious.  There's a much easier way to view all of your unread messages following the steps detailed.

Enable Quick Links

We'll need to setup the quick links feature available through Google Labs.  Quick links as described by the author provides the ability to gain 1-click access to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail.  The feature can be used for saving common searches, filtering individual messages and more.  Follow these steps to enable quick links: