named its new email app Inbox for a reason: the company wants it to be the hub for a lot more than just mail.
That vision is exping, as unveiled three new features that are coming to the Android, iOS, web apps. The first organizes event details based on messages around the same topic. Inbox will then use those details to keep all the information about that upcoming outing up to date.
Official Gmail Blog Inbox will now organize emails based on a shared event.
so, if you get a ton of newsletters, those will now be grouped together. Newsletters from the same source will get folded into the same section so you can go back check those from the last few days or weeks.
Finally, Inbox now will save sort any links you collect from around the web. To manage this, there’s a new Chrome extension for saving them to Inbox.
Official Gmail Blog You can now save share links with new tools in ’s Inbox app.
Recently launched a Save to extension, which collects the articles for later reading or organization in a separate space, similar to cket. often has features that overlap a but then talk together more closely. This could certainly happen here, as you may eventually be able to pull in these saved links to Inbox.
Official Gmail Blog The new Save to Inbox extension sends web links to your email app.
appears to be flipping on the features through a server-side switch, so no need to look for an update.
The impact on you: Inbox is ’s big rethink of how Gmail should work. ile it maintains maintains Gmail as a separate app, this is clearly how plans to keep email relevant more organized than just one long, list of messages. Inbox also ties in deeply to other services, which means you may really love it for find it too restrictive.
