Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”

via Email overload? Try Priority Inbox – Official Gmail Blog.

I like the new Priority Inbox feature in Gmail. It’s got a pretty good grasp of which emails I consider important.

Admittedly though I don’t really get enough email to have a need for it, and that’s helped by the fact I tend to read my email through the day via my phone rather than check every time I’m at my home PC.

One thing Google might have misjudged (at least in terms of how I use Gmail) is the fact they consider the starred emails as ‘todo’ items: emails I need to action or read properly when I get the chance. The new priority email interface seems to be designed with that in mind.

However, I tend to use the stars more of a “I’m forever needing this email, so I’d just as well make it easy to find” kind of way. You know, login details. That sort of thing.