How to hide archived emails in Gmail Priority Inbox?

Question

I am using Gmail's Priority Inbox and I have created custom sections based on labels to organize my work email.

When I archive an email in my 'Important and unread' or 'Everything else' sections, they disappear from the section. This is what I want.

However, with my custom sections that are based on labels, emails remain shown, even though it has been archived.

Is there a way to hide archived emails from my custom sections?

Answer 1

It doesn't look like you can. When configuring a custom section for Priority Inbox, your option for messages is either:

Inbox and one of (Important and Unread, Important, Unread, Starred)

OR

All from one particular label.

You can't define a search (label:my-label is:unread for instance) for a priority inbox section.

Answer 2

I realize this is quite old. But it comes up quite high in the search results when looking to solve this.

In the 2019 version of Gmail, you can click the 3-dots menu on the right side of the Archived label. Under In message list, select Hide. That will omit those messages from the Priority inbox.

Answer 3

I got the same situation and here my solution:

add - is:inbox - that will select messages in inbox (not archived)

Here some extraversion that I have found:

is:unread - filtered unread emails is:read - filtered read emails is:starred - filtered starred emails in:archive - filtered archived emails -label:my-label - (added minus before) those labels won't be filtered

Filter version: specific label and in the inbox: label:my-label in:inbox