Google has been working to reduce the clutter in our inboxes for some time and has just announced a sizeable update to Gmail, both on the web and on mobile, to further combat the problem. The update brings tabbed inboxes to your Gmail that automatically divide the mail you receive into categories.
The default categories are:
- Primary (this is the email you want to receive from friends and family)
- Social (updates you receive from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+)
- Promotions (Offers from sites like Groupon or LivingSocial)
- Updates (Receipts from places like Google Play and Amazon)
The new Gmail will support up to five tabs, and they are of course customizable. Google understands that not all of us will want every category that it has selected, so we can choose which ones to ignore. You can move messages between tabs to tell Google to place any mail from that sender into a certain tab from now on. You can also star messages, which will tell Google that is is an important message that should appear in the Primary tab.
The update will also be sent out to Gmail for Android "within the next few weeks". The new Android app will support the tabs by placing tham in a left sidebar which you can swipe to in order to choose which inbox to view.
The new update looks nice and any way I can get to my important email faster I am all for. What do you all think of the upcoming update?
Source: Gmail Blog
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