The company Google has presented by surprise a curious tool to take even more advantage of the email account of Gmail It is called Inbox, and it proposes to revolutionize the user's inbox by mixing the email with an application concept of tasks and a touch of the assistant Google Now The result is a new way to deal with the emails, reminders, and other content that used to get scattered around your inbox.All in one place, with a very simple and attractive visual aspect, and a suitable operation for any type of user. Here we explain step by step how Inbox works.
The first thing to do is download the application for terminals Android or iOS , depending on the smartphone being used. The next step is to select which Gmail account to be used for to manage mail intelligently and conveniently Of course, for the moment it is necessary to have a invitation to test Inbox , and its doors are opening to new users in a progressive and gradual way Once these initial steps have been completed, the application automatically takes care ofsearch, analyze and reorganize the user's messages to present them in an orderly and comfortable way.
Inbox suggests grouping all user messages according to more specific categoriesIn this way, in addition to Promotions, Social and Notifications, it is able to reorder emails by Payments, Flights, Reservations ”¦ This raises a much more intelligent and orderly inbox, offering the user faster handling of entire groups of messagesor to move comfortably through all of it. Without forgetting the notifications and the content preview from the inbox itself.
From here the possibilities offered by Inbox One of its most striking features is the possibility of pin messages to always have them in a visible place and not forget about them.Simply access any of them and mark the pin icon In this way, and from the main inbox, it is possible to activate the same icon to bring to the front row all the anchored messages that the user still has to resolve. A further touch of this button returns the tray to its original state and order
It is also possible to move any message to any other tag with which it best matches. And it is that Google may not be entirely correct when analyzing and assigning labels to the different user emails. All you have to do is access said email, display the menu and select the option Move to Here it is possible choose any another category and order that the same is always done with the same type of messages.
More interesting is the possibility of postpone And, on many occasions, the mail received is related to work topics, reminders or plans for the user himself. Simply access any mail and display the settings menu, finding the optionSnooze The funny thing is that the user can make this email disappear from the inbox and reappear depending on the time of day or place for the user to choose A good way to make a work topic disappear until you return to the office To do this you just have to choose a place (work, home or any other address), which will make the mail reappear . The same happens with the dates and times, being able to make the mail appear in the inbox the next morning, for example.
Closely related to the snooze option is the issue of reminders A utility that comes directly from Google Now to use your inbox as a to-do lists app Just press the red button in the lower right corner and choose the reminder option to create a new one. The good thing is that Inbox can relate a task to any of the emails, thus allowing you to notify at a specific time or place what has to be done. All this being able to use useful information such as addresses, telephone numbers and more questions so that the reminder is complete.
All the emails and reminders that are showing in the head of Inbox is because, somehow, need to be resolved or have been marked as important by the user.However, once carried out they only obscure the vision of new tasks. Therefore it is possible to mark with a tick all resolved content and make it disappear from the inbox. A total comfort to be able to do it as a group, without having to archive the contents one by one.
Apart from these issues, we must take into account other details of Inbox that are very interesting for users who don't have time to waste. Thus, together with the subject of each email, this application takes care of show the attached contents A quick way to know what the message is about, being able to see photographs, text documents or PDF , flight information and other details such as reservations, maps and related content. All this to streamline the management of the mail itself. In addition, the user has full power to reorder messages at will, creating new labels from the main menu, and being able to group them withincategories for quick access.
