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Gmail’s New Inbox

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If you use Gmail, you’ve noticed that Google has changed their interface to look something like this:

tabs

Instead of landing everything in your inbox, messages are now being sorted into tabs. When the shift was made (on May 29, 2013) you were automatically given three tabs: Primary, Social, and Promotions.

While this new functionality can be very handy, it also requires a bit of work on our part to make sure that our mail lands where we want it to.

Say, for instance, you are a subscriber to the Tripepi Smith monthly newsletter (and if you aren’t, click here to sign up now – it’s full of great content). Since the implementation of Google’s new email system, our newsletter will be routed automatically to your promotions tab.

If you use a mail client on your computer or phone, it’s possible you won’t notice the change, but when you log on to Google, you won’t see the Tripepi Smith email unless you click on the tab that reads “Promotions.”

The good news is, you can easily “train” Gmail to deliver the Tripepi Smith newsletter to your Primary inbox tab, simply by dragging and dropping the email from where it is (under the Social tab) to the Primary tab.

You can also add tabs by clicking on the “+” to the right of the Promotions tab. Or, you can remove everything but your primary in box and go back to how things were. But change is good. Give the new tab format a chance and you may find you like how it simplifies your inbox.

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