Google Priority Mail is Rocking
Well that may be a bit of an overstatement, but Google Priority Mail (Google’s tool for…prioritizing your mail) launched today and was shared with certain Gmail users, and has the potential to change how people read mail.
SKINNY concept designer Colin Murphy described the service simply, saying, “it basically makes your main inbox your spam folder” – except it separates the really important mail from the less important stuff. Example: something from your boss would go in the priority inbox and something from Zappos would go in the everything else folder.
STARRED GOODNESS
But there’s something else to whet your Gmail appetite. Starred items get a space below the priority stuff, but above “everything else”. This is an elegant solution to a problem Google created when it started allowing “starring”. Namely, that the starred item gets forgotten about. Now, it’s front and center (see image).
But will it work? We just got the service, so it’s too soon to tell, but we’ll report back later. Check out the video below, and an official story from the Detroit Free Press, here. Or get it from Google, here.
