Google has updated its Gmail service with a new appearance for users’ email accounts.
The search engine giant has added tabs that organise incoming mail into individual “compartments.” Google hopes that the new tabs will make it easier and quicker for users to find the messages they are seeking.
The tab feature was unveiled 29 May in a post by Itamar Gilad, product manager for Gmail, on the Official Gmail Blog.
“We get a lot of different types of email: messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations and receipts, and more,” wrote Gilad. “All of these emails can compete for our attention and make it harder to focus on the things we need to get done. Sometimes it feels like our inboxes are controlling us, rather than the other way around.”
The tabs include areas for primary email from friends and family; one for messages coming in through social media; a tab for promotional and advertising messages; one for updates for bill payments and other personal account messages; and another for incoming messages from online forums that users visit and follow.
“You can easily customise the new inbox – select the tabs you want from all five to none, drag-and-drop to move messages between tabs, set certain senders to always appear in a particular tab and star messages so that they also appear in the Primary tab,” wrote Gilad.
Mobile users will also see the new tab features in the Gmail for Android 4.0+ app and Gmail for iPhone and iPad app, he wrote. Mobile users will see their primary mail when they open the app, and then they can navigate to the other tabs.
The new interface is optional, however. Users who don’t like the new inbox can turn off all optional tabs to go back to classic view, or switch to any of their other favourite inbox types, wrote Gilad.
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