Gmail Priority Inbox has arrived!

While most people have been taking it easy over the summer vacation, Gmail seems to have been working overtime. The email giant is just getting better and better – a new interface, updated undo send and even multiple account login! The latest feature to make it to our inboxes is Gmail Priority Inbox.

The feature hasn’t been fully rolled out yet, so don’t worry if you can’t see it in your account – it hasn’t appeared in mine yet, but as you can see from the screenshots, Tom’s already prioritizing with the best of them!

Gmail Priority Inbox is going to work like this: using technology similar to its anti-spam features, it will automatically identify important emails based on your usual email patterns – what you read first and who you actually reply to. It will then put these emails in a separate part of your inbox, so you can read them first and leave the less important stuff until later.

Even if Gmail Priority Inbox gets it wrong, there is also a feature to mark individual mails as more or less important, moving them in or out of the priority area as appropriate. If this feature works well, it will be huge, especially for high-volume emailers. I can’t wait to try it out, so hurry up Gmail – I want Priority Inbox now!