New Gmail Multiple Inboxes Kicks Ass
The rate at which Google’s Gmail continues to roll out new labs has been holding nice and steady in recent days/weeks.
Today saw the roll-out of Multiple Inboxes, by far one of my top three favorite features, from one of their software engineer’s Octavian “Vivi” Costache. Here’s a little of what he said in his post:
“I started implementing a Labs feature in my 20% time that would help me (and you!) spend less time monitoring important messages that may end up getting filtered away. Starting today, you can try Multiple Inboxes, a Labs experiment which makes it possible to have more than one ‘inbox’ in your default Gmail view.”
I’ll be even happier to see this evolve to include a drag-and-drop feature, hopefully sooner than later. In fact, I’m surprised it wasn’t included with the first release since that kind of functionality is so common and expected these days.
No matter though, it’s still a step in the right direction. Many thanks to “Vivi” for this feature!