If you are like me then you probably get a tonne of email, and unsurprisingly it's not all useful. Not just spam, but also legitimate advertising from companies you actually deal with. Unfortunately, with this volume of text arriving in your inbox every day it can become a job in itself just to decide what you want to actually read. It's possible in many mail clients to set up a filtering system to colour or divert mail to individual folders, but that can also be a laborious and fiddly task.
Well it seems that the web mail masters at Mountain View have been working on an automated service to help users deal with the daily deluge of mail. New to Gmail is the Priority Inbox, a system that will sort your emails based on their importance to you.
Priority Inbox will automatically sort your incoming emails into a number of pre-defined (but editable) categories – Important and Unread, Starred and Everything Else. Based on a number of indicators such as emails from people you send messages too often, or other mails that you normally open and read, Priority Inbox will continue to learn and improve its filtering based on your actions. You can even speed up this process by using the + and – buttons to raise a messages importance.
It’s a neat system that could do with a slightly whimsical video explanation, luckily Google thought of that as well…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nt3gE9dGHQ[/youtube]
Gmail Priority Inbox is currently in Beta and will be rolled out this week. More information can be found on the Google Enterprise Blog and Priority Inbox homepage.
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