Google Mail Hero, I mean Priority Inbox

Google has release a new feature for it's email product called priority inbox. I was greeted with a loud but very exciting noise (I thought my mac FINALLY got hacked). After I realised the auto sound was coming from GMail, I was....well, I was excited!

I've only been using it for a short time, but I could get used to this!

The Google Priority Inbox welcome video

The interface looks pretty nice, a couple of simple buttons allow you to mark emails as important or not important, simple as that. You still have your regular inbox, but in addition to that you now have a PRIORITY INBOX, pretty neat. I guess it's kind of like lots of neat filters with some auto Google magic to guess what's important in your life (face it they know more about you then you do). They say they'll learn as you read or don't read your email, reply to people and all the rest, and frankly it kind of makes sense!

The Google Priority Inbox UI

I haven't been able to give it a really good run for it's money yet, apparently nobody loves me enough to send me important and unread mail, at least not yet (Google sent me one but it didn't turn out to be that important, I didn't dare click the unimportant button though).

A new type of Inbox, Priority Inbox

I like the fact that it's not a HUGE change to emails, or the UI. They added in some buttons to help you correct Google, and they've sorted your emails in a couple of useful groups. To be honest I already do most of this sorting via my own filters, but it will be nice to see how much better Google is at automating this for me.

The feature I really like is being able to collapse each group, so I can have my 3 or 4 lists of Emails and gaze my eye over all of it or just some of it. And I think it will help collecting all the Important Emails at the top of the list. Now if I can just get someone to send me something...."Important".