Overwhelmed with email? Try Priority Inbox
August 31st, 2010 | Published in Google Student Blog
Going back to school can be overwhelming with new classes, more books, difficult professors, and oh yeah – an avalanche of emails. Keeping up with it all can be challenging, especially when you don’t have much time on your hands to sort through all of your messages to find the ones that are most important.
Well, this year might be different since we just launched Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail. When you use the Priority Inbox view, your Gmail inbox will be split into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”. Messages are tagged as they come in so that it can help you focus on the messages that matter.
Learn more by reading the post on the Gmail Blog or watching this video:
As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the
or 
buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important.
To get started, just click on the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account once it appears. And if your school uses Google Apps (and if they’re opted in to pre-release features), you should see the Priority Inbox view in your school email account in the next week or so.
Well, this year might be different since we just launched Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail. When you use the Priority Inbox view, your Gmail inbox will be split into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”. Messages are tagged as they come in so that it can help you focus on the messages that matter.
Learn more by reading the post on the Gmail Blog or watching this video:
As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the
or buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important.To get started, just click on the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account once it appears. And if your school uses Google Apps (and if they’re opted in to pre-release features), you should see the Priority Inbox view in your school email account in the next week or so.