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Review of Inbox by Gmail - The inbox that works for you

Are you tired of having to manage your emails regularly, filtering between important ones and those that are simply useless? How often it happens that some email which may be important in future is lost between multiple other emails and cannot be found when needed! For all you gmail users, here is an app that rids you of all that trouble, and much more.


Inbox by Gmail app - Overview


Inbox by Gmail provides an alternative interface to a gmail account. The app provides all the functionalities that Gmail provides like drafts, sent, bin (trash in gmail) to name a few, and many other extra features. In Inbox, you can set reminders, snooze emails and reminders, get emails categorizes into bundles for easier viewing and handling and more to increase ease email handling and increase productivity.
The app currently has a rating of 4.2 on Google Play Store and more than 10 million downloads. Visit the Inbox by Gmail website here.


Features

HIGHLIGHTS:


No need to open the mail every time. Get the most important information, check-in timings of flights, shipping information for purchases, photos from a friend and other files right up front, without having to open the mail.

BUNDLES:


Similar messages are bundled together for you to deal with them all at once. If need be, you can get rid of them in one swipe or set them all as 'Done' with one button click. It automatically categorizes messages into 8 bundles - trips, saved, purchases, finance, social, updates. forums and promos (short for promotions). Other emails which are considered as unimportant are kept unbundled in a 'Low Priority' list. Other bundles can be added as per preference.

REMINDERS:



You can add reminders too so that your inbox contains everything you need to get back to. If it detects that an email contains some task for you to do (say "Please bring some vegetables on your way home") Inbox will suggest you to create a to-do item.


SNOOZE


Snooze emails and reminders to whenever you are ready to deal with them. These emails are hidden from your inbox and show up again only when the time (or whatever other snooze condition was set) is reached.


SEARCH


Inbox helps you find exactly what you are looking for, whether it is the details of your next trip or some photos sent to you by a friend, without having to dig through them.


WORKS WITH GMAIL


It is developed by the Gmail team after all, so all your emails from Gmail are here along with its functionality like IMAP, POP, 15 GB storage and spam protection to name a few. 


SUGGESTIONS


Inbox gives suggestions when setting reminders and suggests replies to emails, both vert aptly. With sometimes amusing but often surprisingly helpful straightforwardness, Inbox by Gmail will offer small snippets of possible replies when it finds text suited to such a reply. (Do you prefer cake or ice-cream" will yield something like "Either is fine" or "Whatever you want" and so on).


What one would like (Pros)


The categorization, reminders, snooze feature, tracking of trips and shipments for orders and accessing of important information without having to open the email, all work together to create a wonderful user experience.


Cons


The classifying and bundling can be a little confusing at first. A few mails may end up bundled in the wrong list (a mail which contains shopping list may end up in Low Priority). Connecting new reminders to emails can be slightly confusing.


My Take


Inbox by Gmail is a great app for managing your emails. The user interface is well developed for keeping track of important emails as well as getting rid of those emails which are either useless or not needed anymore.

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