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Until April 2019, Google Inbox was an innovative approach to email management that aimed to organize and prioritize your messages more efficiently.
What is Google Inbox? How it works and innovation
The Google Inbox service was an innovative email app from Google that was designed to revolutionize the way we deal with emails. Unlike traditional email clients, Inbox treated emails as tasks, which opened up new possibilities for organization.
- Google Inbox treated every email as a kind of task or to-do that could be managed, remembered, and prioritized.
- This helped users keep track of important messages and organize their inbox more efficiently. Incoming emails could be marked as “Done,” for example, which meant checking off the task without actually deleting the email.
- Inbox also allowed the use of reminders, which could be created independently of an email, making it a combination of an email and task management app. This allowed users to coordinate and prioritize emails and notes in one tool.
- There are now numerous alternatives that offer Inbox-like features, such as apps like Microsoft To Do, Spark Mail, BlueMail, or combined email and task management tools.
Main features of Google Inbox
Google Inbox had several main features:
- Pin feature: Important emails could be pinned to keep them permanently visible and quickly accessible.
- Reminders: Users could create personal reminders for specific emails or regardless of the email content.
- Mark as “Done”: This made emails disappear from the inbox but kept them accessible, ensuring tidy and focused email management.
- Bundles: Inbox automatically grouped similar emails together (e.g., offers, social networks, travel), making the inbox clearer.
