Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Priority Inbox For Gmail

Gmail is trying to ease your email experience by taking filtering one step further. No longer will it just screen out junk mail, but it will now pull out the important messages so you can get to them first. If it works it will be a great feature. It will also mean and show just how much Google knows about you; even if only in an automated sense.

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"Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.

Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:

As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail 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). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the or buttons 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.)
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Head over to
Gmail.com/PriorityInbox

1 comment:

  1. It's an amazing feature! I use another cool Email management solution Taroby www.taroby.com for managing my business email accounts. The software lets me prioritize and sort relevant emails and thus helps in tackling inbox overload.

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