Google Email Launches Priority InBox

Tired of spam? Consider Using Gmail. Normal Gmail is great I’ve been using it for years BUT, now with “priority” email it’s even better.

Try it. www.gmail.com

Oh yeah, Did I mention it is free.

From Gmail:

Priority Inbox can help save you time if you’re overwhelmed with the amount of email you get. It attempts to automatically identify your important incoming messages and separates them out from everything else. Gmail uses a variety of signals to prioritize your incoming messages, including who you emailed most frequently and which messages you’ve recently opened as opposed to which messages you’ve deleted.

When you click the Priority Inbox navigation link on the left-hand side of your mail, you’ll see messages grouped in three sections: Important and unread, Starred, and Everything else. This is the default setup, but you may customize your sections on the Priority Inbox in Settings.

If Priority Inbox mistakes an email as important or doesn’t flag one that’s important to you, you can teach it to make better selections. Just select the message in question, and click the “mark as important” or “mark as not important” button; they’re the buttons with plus and minus icons just to the left of the Move to and Labels drop-down menus.

When you mark a message as not important, it will move out of the Important section. Over time Priority Inbox will learn what’s important to you and incorporate the feedback you give via these buttons.

The signals that Gmail uses to prioritize your email are never surfaced to other users — they’re only used to prioritize your mail for you. So if you always ignore email from Bob and those messages are marked as “not important” in your inbox, it won’t affect how Bob sees the conversation in his inbox.

Aside from the creepy aspect that Google is taking over the world and has computers that read your email (all the email companies do it btw, that is how they know what ads to place around the page. ) this is a really cool feature.

If your a Gmail user or a new one. Priority Gmail may not be available as it is still in (cue tech speek) Beta testing.

Don’t worry. It’s awesome and will be available soon.

So after years of frequently declaring email bankruptcy I’m glad to have a new tool that will hopefully help me stay organized with my email.