{"id":1731,"date":"2013-10-28T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T19:42:48","slug":"gmail-and-the-new-inbox-categoris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/gmail-and-the-new-inbox-categoris\/","title":{"rendered":"GMail’s “Inbox Categories”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GmailCategories\"If you use Gmail, you know what I mean when I say \u201cthose confounded new Gmail tabs\u201d. In June, Google rolled out Inbox Categories<\/a> which they tout as organising your inbox so that messages “are classified into categories such as Social, Promotions, and Updates”. They say it\u2019s supposed to help categorise your mail so that you see what you want to see when you want to see it. I say it\u2019s just annoying because after being used to your Inbox looking a particular way for so long, this is just an added annoyance. It doesn\u2019t really help.<\/p>\n

Well, here at Free-eBooks.net<\/a>, the problem is doubled because most of our Newsletter recipients no longer even see our emails because they get shunted to a different tab. If you spend a great deal of time in your Inbox (and I sure hope you don\u2019t), then you\u2019ve probably figured out how to tweak these filters so they work for you. Here\u2019s one way:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open your Gmail and notice the new \u201ctabbing\u201d setup.<\/li>\n
  2. Click the \u201cPromotions\u201d tab. And incidentally, emails could just as easily end up in one of the other tabs too, so check them all.<\/li>\n
  3. Look for any emails from \u201cFree-eBooks.net\u201d and then drag it to the \u201cPrimary\u201d folder. Drag by clicking your LEFT Mouse button over the email Subject line and then holding it down while you pull the email to the Primary Tab.<\/li>\n
  4. A question will pop up asking if you want this done automatically in the future. Click \u201cYES\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The other way is to disable these annoying tabs altogether. I\u2019ve done that because I got tired of searching through all those tabs to find the email I need and filter each individually. I was doing fine manually filtering my emails myself, thanks anyway Google. To do that, here are those steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Go to the Settings box in the upper right hand corner of your inbox and choose \u201cSettings.\u201d<\/li>\n
    2. Click on the \u201cInbox\u201d tab, then unselect all categories except \u201cPrimary.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you do spend some time with your Gmail Inbox and want to know how best to tweak this new feature perfectly, Lifehacker.com has an article<\/a> itemising some of the pitfalls and flaws of this new design and gives you some insight into how to fine-tune it as best as possible.<\/p>\n

      If you ask for my advice, I say disable them. \u00a0We spend enough time in our inboxes as is. I don\u2019t need any more reasons to stay in there, and I suggest you don\u2019t either. Email is already too much of a time sink.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If you use Gmail, you know what I mean when I say \u201cthose confounded new Gmail tabs\u201d. In June, Google rolled out Inbox Categories which they tout as organising your inbox so that messages “are classified into categories such as Social, Promotions, and Updates”. They say it\u2019s supposed to help categorise your mail so that you see what you want to see when you want to see it. I say it\u2019s just annoying because after being used to your Inbox looking a particular way for so long, this is just an added annoyance. It doesn\u2019t really help. Well, here at Free-eBooks.net, the problem is doubled because most of our Newsletter recipients no longer even see our emails because they get shunted to a different tab. If you spend a great deal of time in your Inbox (and I sure hope you don\u2019t), then you\u2019ve probably figured out how to tweak these filters so they work for you. Here\u2019s one way: Open your Gmail and notice the new \u201ctabbing\u201d setup. Click the \u201cPromotions\u201d tab. And incidentally, emails could just as easily end up in one of the other tabs too, so check them all. Look for any emails from \u201cFree-eBooks.net\u201d and then drag it to the \u201cPrimary\u201d folder. Drag by clicking your LEFT Mouse button over the email Subject line and then holding it down while you pull the email to the Primary Tab. A question will pop up asking if you want this done automatically in the future. Click \u201cYES\u201d The other way is to disable these annoying tabs altogether. I\u2019ve done that because I got tired of searching through all those tabs to find the email I need and filter each individually. I was doing fine manually filtering my emails myself, thanks anyway Google. To do that, here are those steps: Go to the Settings box in the upper right hand corner of your inbox and choose \u201cSettings.\u201d Click on the \u201cInbox\u201d tab, then unselect all categories except \u201cPrimary.\u201d If you do spend some time with your Gmail Inbox and want to know how best to tweak this new feature perfectly, Lifehacker.com has an article itemising some of the pitfalls and flaws of this new design and gives you some insight into how to fine-tune it as best as possible. If you ask for my advice, I say disable them. \u00a0We spend enough time in our inboxes as is. I don\u2019t need any more reasons to stay in there, and I suggest you don\u2019t either. Email is already too much of a time sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[88,391,392,393,311,186],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-discussion","tag-gmail","tag-inbox","tag-productivity","tag-technology-2","tag-tips"],"views":6916,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}