Google has launched a new email product called Google Inbox.
Saw this via Hacker News:
A post about Google Inbox on the official Google blog:
An inbox that works for you.
Hacker News thread about Google Inbox.
Google is going to roll out Inbox in stages to various sets of people. If you want to get an invitation to it, you can email them at inbox@google.com. I did it. Once I get invited, if I find Google Inbox useful or interesting, I will write a post about it.
Meanwhile, here are a few features of Google Inbox mentioned in the official Google blog post:
Bundles (of emails) - like categories that they had before in Gmail.
Highlights - key information from important messages.
Reminders, Assists, and Snoozes.
Assist - if you send a reminder to the hardware store, Assist will tell you its number and if it's open.
Snooze lets you snooze away emails and reminders, until a later time or until you reach another place, like your office.
Interestingly, Google seems to have made a somewhat poor choice of name for the product, again (after doing it with "Go" for the Go language), since in both cases, the word is very common and generic ("inbox" and "Go"), so it will be difficult to search for (even using Google, ironically).
Of course, there are workarounds, like using "golang" instead of "Go", and I'm guessing "Google Inbox" instead of just "Inbox", but those won't work as well as having a more unique name. I just did a Google search for the word "inbox", though, and www.google.com/inbox/ was the first hit.
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