Gmail has just released changes by adding filters (in the form of tabs) to group social, updates, promotions, and forums, which hopes to improve how we receive and read our emails.
daily we receive messages from friends, social notifications, deals/offers, confirmations/receipts, and more. 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. now we can easily customize our inboxes – 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.
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