To help users deal with a plethora of email flooding their inboxes, Google has announced that beginning next week, it will introduce Priority Inbox, an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
In addition to sending Junk mail to the Spam filter, Gmail will now split your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else.”
The way it works is that as messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Google says it uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over).
The company says that over time, Gmail will get better at categorizing messages and you can improve the sortation of email by clicking a plus or minus button at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.
Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users in the next week. You’ll know you have it when you see a "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account.
In addition to sending Junk mail to the Spam filter, Gmail will now split your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else.”
The way it works is that as messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Google says it uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over).
The company says that over time, Gmail will get better at categorizing messages and you can improve the sortation of email by clicking a plus or minus button at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.
Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users in the next week. You’ll know you have it when you see a "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account.
