Everyday, people’s email inboxes get flooded with email messages. Hopefully if you have good spam filters in place, they will filter out unwanted messages from your inbox, but even then, users often receive a volume of messages that they must sort through.

Some of these messages are important or urgent and need to be attended to sooner rather then later, whereas other messages are ok if they wait a little while. If you’re a Gmail user, Google has announced Priority Inbox as a method to assist email users from the deluge of messages received daily.

Priority Inbox is like a personal assistant that will try to help you focus on important messages without having to use a rules wizard. It works by dividing your inbox into three parts: Important and unread, Started and Everything Else. As you receive email, Gmail will try to sort your incoming messages into these three categories using certain signals as indicators of the importance of the message.

For instance, if you correspond with someone on a daily basis, Gmail will recognize that person as an important personal contact and will give that person’s messages a higher importance then someone whose email you often skip over. The system is not perfect, but it has the ability to improve. If you find that email messages are not categorized correctly, you can click the important or unimportant message to assist Gmail in learning your email needs.

Google’s Priority Inbox will roll out over the next few weeks and you a red message in the right corner of your Gmail account once it has been enabled for you.

Via: Gmail Blog, Geeks Room