Waking up and opening Gmail this morning was quite an experience. An update occurred, which caused our email to be divided into tabs – Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums.
Now, I would love this even more if it was a bit more customizable and I could edit the names of the tabs, but right now, in the Primary tab, all of my ‘personal’ conversations are recorded. That would be great, but my ‘personal’ conversations include family events, friend gathers, and professional business. Although the folders help me out a bit, the general tab thing ain’t working for me…yet.
[HINT- Let’s get this customization thing under control!]
If you are wondering if you can return to the original chaotic mess that was so lovingly organized under your preferred methods, here are the quick steps to undo the redo:
First, navigate to that Settings wheel, drop-down and select Configure Inbox:
A pop-up box will appear. Uncheck those tabs that you wish to disappear and click Save. Your email will not be removed. It will remain in the singular inbox window.
And that’s it! Pretty easy. Now you’re back to your single stream mess – one that I have grown to love, but would definitely consider sorting in the future. I’m just not there yet. Gmail, I still love you.
What do you think about the new enhancements? Let’s discuss!
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August 15, 2013[…] an additional way of segmenting the inbox. Although it’s an option to do this [I have a nifty blog post about undoing this Gmail tab feature if you are so inclined], the majority of consumers will keep it as is. So, that leaves us marketing […]