{"id":11510,"date":"2009-02-12T00:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2009-02-12T00:34:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:34:15","slug":"a-better-world-with-multiple-inboxes-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/a-better-world-with-multiple-inboxes-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"A better world with multiple inboxes in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google has recently added a super mega cool feature to Gmail – multiple inboxes<\/a>.\u00a0 For me, it was an instant boost in productivity and huge improvement in the way I handle email. However, while I was sharing my excitement with friends and co-workers, I’ve received quite a few cold looks and “so what?”s.<\/p>\n

\"Multiple<\/a><\/p>\n

So, what’s so cool about multiple inboxes?\u00a0 Here is how I enjoy them so far.<\/p>\n

I’ve setup forwarding on all my email accounts so that all messages end up in the single Gmail account of mine.\u00a0 This means that I have the same mailbox for personal emails, work emails, blog related emails, spam, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 All that email is handled with a multitude of labels and filters.\u00a0 And overall it works pretty well.<\/p>\n

However, there was a little annoyance in my daily routine.\u00a0 As part of my job I have to review and monitor Subversion commits from several programmers that work in our office.\u00a0 Commit notifications come to me in the form of emails, and since they are rather high priority, they are labeled automatically, but not archived.\u00a0 They stay in the main inbox until I read and archive them manually.\u00a0 Also, as part of my consulting work for another company, I have to go through their commits as well.\u00a0 These too are labeled separately, but end up in the main inbox.\u00a0 And, additionally, I am using Gmail as a task manager for things that should be done eventually.\u00a0 For that I have emails with tasks, labeled separately, and starred.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a huge mess, but not the ideal solution, especially when it mixes up with direct messages from work and friends.<\/p>\n

Once Gmail got the multiple inboxes feature, I modified my filters to archive commit messages from both companies automatically (but not mark them as read).\u00a0 Then I created three additional inboxes – one for tasks, and two for commit messages.\u00a0 The tasks inbox lists all starred messages with a certain label.\u00a0 Commit inboxes list messages with labels for each company.\u00a0 Now I have my main inbox for direct messages from friends and work, and the rest of the things that I need to keep an eye on are right there, in front of me, but re-organized a bit to give me some breathing room.
\nWith this new feature I can keep my main inbox message count much closer to zero, while still have some lose ends in case I need to argue over a commit or keep a few more things on the task list.\u00a0 Excellento!<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Gmail team – well done.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Google has recently added a super mega cool feature to Gmail – multiple inboxes.\u00a0 For me, it was an instant boost in productivity and huge improvement in the way I handle email. However, while I was sharing my excitement with friends and co-workers, I’ve received quite a few cold looks and “so what?”s. So, what’s … Continue reading A better world with multiple inboxes in Gmail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[72,1985,1079],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-email","tag-google-gmail","tag-productivity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12679,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/09\/finally-per-account-signatures-in-gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":11510,"position":0},"title":"Finally! 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