Have you heard about Google’s new “Priority Inboxes” feature on Google Mail?
Priority Inbox can help save you time if you’re overwhelmed with the amount of email you get. It attempts to automatically identify your important incoming messages and separates them out from everything else.
Gmail uses a variety of signals to prioritize your incoming messages, including who you emailed most frequently and which messages you’ve recently opened as opposed to which messages you’ve deleted.
Wow.
My question, though, is whether or not this will change the way you use email? Check out the overview video:
I wonder if this will change how senders send their email (and their tactics, especially for marketers, etc).
I’ve already activated it and have been playing around with it:
Thoughts?
Adam Lehman says
It’s gonna change it for me for sure.
It’ll make me MUCH less responsive to non-priority.
Matt Phelps says
I tend to forget about important emails, only to find them during inbox cleaning. My first thought is keeping the important emails at the top will help, but time will tell.
Daniel Berman says
I think it depends on your usage habits, in regards to the frequency of your email correspondence. It also depends on your willingness to train the system. For me in a professional context it has been a welcome blessing.
wvpv says
Jury is still out for me. I tend to keep my inbox pretty clean. without a bunch of e-maill piling up, it’s been hard for me to see if it’s helping me be more efficient.
Adam says
You better believe it will. Also, think about how this impacts email as church communication. Your comms better be engaging.
BenJPickett says
I doubt that anything will change for me as I’ve used priority plug-ins in the past for Outlook and they didn’t help my core problem. While they did get to the root of my email management problems it still took just as long for me to reply. I still checked all the marketing emails to see if there was a deal so good that I would say “How can I afford to NOT to do this?”
At the end of the day roughly 20-30 messages per day, with 2 phones lines that would at times ring nearly non stop, it would still take me 40+ minutes to get a reply done. I’m not in that situation anymore and get about 20 emails over a long weekend and most of them are reports from off site back up, and other notices. It can still take me 30 minutes to get an email replied to but thats mostly research to make sure all the information included is as accurate as it can be.