Don’t get surprised when you wake up tomorrow & you log on to your Gmail inbox to check your mails, you find sonething new on the left hand side taskbar. Google has this uncanny knack of surprising people & here comes a new funda called the priority mail. The Priority Inbox allows important emails to surface and stay up top, pushing the less relevant stuff into the background. When the Priority Inbox fails, well, you can train it by using the +/- buttons that are part of the new menu.
Google’s official homepage has lots many things to say. It says, 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.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. Exciting stuff. I am pretty excited about the new feature.
