Open Multiple Inboxes in Gmail

Google has released a new experiment feature in Gmail Labs that lets users activate multiple views within their inboxes. Fittingly, this feature is called "Multiple Inboxes." In case you’re having a hard time visualizing it, software Engineer Octavian Costache on the Gmail Blog shares the following image:

"In addition to a quick view of my important labels, I also like to keep all my starred and draft messages in separate panels," explains Costache.

Once you have Multiple Inboxes turned on, you can configure what you want to see, and set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of your panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings.

Alex Chitu at the Google Operating System Blog notes that if you are looking to see the inboxes of multiple email accounts, you’ll be better off checking out Gmail’s mail fetcher. This automatically labels the messages fetched from other accounts and archives them.

As always, Google is encouraging feedback on the feature to improve it for everyone. Who knows, with enough improvement, maybe it will become a full fledged feature one day.

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June 26, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Well, I don’t know if that is going to work for myself, however definitely proved helpful for you! Excellent post!

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web
May 5, 2009 at 4:49 am

Along with showing multiple inboxes, I would like to see my calendar, tasks, and documents all on the same page.

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Hemroids
February 10, 2009 at 5:46 am

Does this mean that you can open multiple accounts at the same time?

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techknowl
February 9, 2009 at 11:23 am

WOw!! Gmail team is always adding cool new features …

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Darren Tan
February 8, 2009 at 9:30 pm

Wow, i’ve been looking forward to this feature for a long time. Now it’s coming.. Cool!

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Brave Agent Pubeit
February 8, 2009 at 1:01 pm

I noticed some time in January 2009, the button to selectively reply to and quote a particular message in a thread in gmail vanished. With gmail not providing a place to contact them about this, I guess it’s just never coming back.

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