How can I, in gmail, search for conversations in which I replied and always mark them as important
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I'm on a number of mailing lists. I end up reading most emails in those lists, which apparently means gmail thinks almost all emails from those lists are important. I have a filter that tells gmail to never mark emails from those lists as important. But that ends up being too broad because if I participate in a thread, then I want that thread to become important. How can I do that? How can I create a filter for emails in conversations in which I have participated.