Gmail’s Latest Feature: The "Priority Inbox"

E-mail is great… unless there’s too much of it.

With the advent of e-mail accounts providing almost limitless storage capacities, an unlimited stash of patience to deal with all that mail doesn’t come attached, unfortunately.

Spam guards that have been developed have helped… somewhat. But for some of us, even sans the spam, e-mail is still overwhelming. If only the e-mails you receive would become more proactive, grow legs, pick themselves up, and line up according to importance, right? If only.

Google may just have come up with the next best thing.

Introducing the Gmail’s Priority Inbox! This new feature is said to be Google’s attempt to appease the woes of Gmail users who manage to amass huge amounts of e-mail. The Priority Inbox helps by segregating e-mail by importance, putting them into categories like “Important and Unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything Else.”

The Priority Inbox marks as “Important and Unread” what is just that, mail that it feels is important to you and needs your utmost attention, that is still unread. “Starred” stars e-mail that was previously “Importand and Unread,” but is marked by the user for further attention after being read. And of course, “Everything Else” is everything else that is not up to priority par, which ends up as typical inbox items.

The Priority Inbox feature works with an intelligent algorithm at its core, a virtual intuition that classifies your mail based on the people you e-mail the most, the type of mail you reply to, the keywords that apply, and other e-mail habits that it can observe from you.

While the Priority Inbox doesn’t declare that its deductive prowess is perfect, it does claim to learn from any corrections you point out. But perfect or not, either way, the Priority Inbox feature of Gmail hopes to get you on the path towards an inbox that’s anarchy-free

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