Google's New Inbox - Your Email Just Got Smarter!

Google's New Inbox and Its Features

Google recently launched the new inbox app, which will change the way in which people manage their emails. So let’s look on what the new inbox is and what features it includes:

What is Inbox?

Inbox is a new application that has been developed by Google to help users manage their emails better. 

The inbox app is made for Gmail; instead of updating thetheir current layout for web and mobile, Google has created a new app to manage emails.

Inbox is not an email provider, rather an email client.

Features of Inbox

Google has tried to make the inbox app such that people can better manage their emails. So here's the rundown:

• Labels and Bundles

You can organize your email using labels and bundles in Inbox. Labels are similar to the labels in Gmail. You can also add your own custom labels, or use the default labels available to automatically set default labels based on the senders address or the content of the email.

Bundles helps you to group similar labelled emails together. Bundles can be turned off to see all the different labelled emails in the main inbox.

• Highlights

This feature is used to display only the important information of the email, such as images of event registrations or reservation details. All this important information is displayed under the subject line in the inbox view. So, users can look at all the important information before they even open the email. NICE!

• Reminders

Reminders are like to-do lists. If the user wants to perform a certain action (on email), for instance, if the user wants to send an email after some time so they can set a reminder that would appear in their main inbox at the time that they have set. Very handy feature!

• Snooze

Snooze allows the user to send emails and receive them later. Suppose a user wants to send an email to someone after 2 months’ time, rather than scrolling down the calendar to set a reminder, you have the option to set the Snooze. This will send the email on the day that it was set.

• Done

Done is a separate folder for emails where opened emails can be stored. The main idea of this feature is to reduce the number of emails in your inbox. All the emails that the user has read or has taken action upon are then moved into the done folder (read emails are still accessible under the done folder).

• Pin

By using Pin, you can mark all your important emails so that they would always appear in your inbox until and unless you unpin those emails. So if you feel that there is a certain important email that you would like to see in your inbox (instead of it being stored in the Done folder), then you can pin it. This is not associated with the 'Pin It' Pinterest feature.

• Sweep

Sweep is used to clear the inbox, users can remove all the unwanted emails from their inbox by 'sweeping' it. Sweep will move all the read emails to the done folder (sweep would not move pinned emails to the done folder). Users can also use sweep to clear labels and bundles.

As a self-proclaimed Google evangelist, I am very happy to have this app for use personally and for business. This is an honest and compensation - free review of Google Inbox. I hope you find this information helpful so you can get the most out of this innovative application.