Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign 303
Today Google announced a redesign of the Gmail inbox. Citing a high volume of email which makes it hard for users to focus on what's important (or what they want to focus on at any given moment), the new inbox will automatically group incoming emails into categories, which will appear as tabs at the top of the inbox. 'You can easily customize the new inbox — select the tabs you want from all five to none, drag-and-drop to move messages between tabs, set certain senders to always appear in a particular tab and star messages so that they also appear in the Primary tab.' Speaking to The Verge, Gmail product manager Alex Gawley said, 'It became obvious to us over time that this notion that the inbox was more of your master than your servant was becoming more widespread. It wasn't just the people receiving hundreds of emails a day — more regular users were starting to feel stressed out by their inbox.' The announcement notes that if you aren't interested in the new view, you can switch off all the tabs to go back to the classic inbox view.
Remember (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Riiight (Score:0, Informative)
"We give our shit to you free, and you use it willingly." Don't like it? POP3/IMAP that bitch. Kick it somewhere else. Otherwise, build a better mousetrap.
Re:No! (Score:3, Informative)
I'm confused; it says clearly in the summary and the article that people can go back to the classic view if they choose to do so. Therefore, they're simply giving people an option as to how they want to view their inbox, and if you like the current version, you can keep it. So what are you upset about? More options is always a good thing, especially if one option is to keep things the way they are.
Error: tepples@example.com does not use Gmail (Score:4, Informative)
If I have to do that what's the point of even having a Gmail account?
To get past the "does not use Gmail" screen when using some other Google services. Android Market prior to Android 4.0, for example, required a Gmail account; an ordinary Google account wasn't enough [androidcentral.com].
It's called "Folders." Get it right, Google! (Score:2, Informative)
Google seems to have an aversion to them. First, Google substituted LABELS for folders. Now they're substituting TABS for folders.
This is one area where Outlook Client (desktop client) wins: FOLDERS. In OUTLOOK, I can easily set up rules to put emails into folders to reduce clutter and increase organization. AND IT WORKS.
labels = folders; you == uninformed; (Score:5, Informative)
Many people are wrong-headed on this, labels are superior to folders.
With folders, an email message can be filed to one and only one folder.
With labels, any number of labels can be attached to a message.
This means you can have labels like "vendors" and "Project X" and a single message can be labelled as both.
In addition, you can easily set up filters in gmail to apply labels, set read status, etc.
In gmail the idea of "inbox" right now is just a label that gets applied to (most) incoming email. You can archive it out of your inbox by removing that label.
Regarding filtering, if you are going to slam gmail for missing a feature outlook has, at least don't be completely wrong.
You also seem to misunderstand the new mailbox and thinking about "tabs".
RTFM.
Re:No! (Score:5, Informative)
To get rid of the "Important" mailbox in the web interface: Go to your Gmail settings, Inbox tab, and set your Inbox to "Classic".
In the Android Gmail app, go into the settings for your Gmail account, and uncheck "Priority Inbox".