New Labs Feature for Gmail: Inbox Preview
Gmail Labs, the place where Google software engineers post the Gmail enhancements they come up with in their 20% time” (the one day per week when they get to work on something that is not job related), has a new offering that you should know about: Inbox preview. Thanks to the Inbox preview Gmail Labs feature, while loading, you can take a glance at a simple and static preview of your Gmail inbox.
Software Engineer Peter Balsiger comments: “Imagine that you access Gmail on a super slow connection from a remote place in Ethopia where it might take minutes to completely load your inbox. The disappointment is larger when you find out that there is nothing new to read and you could have saved all that time. To ease this pain a bit, we created a new feature in Gmail Labs called Inbox Preview. While Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed.
In order to enable the “Inbox preview” Labs feature, follow these simple steps:
Step 1 – Go to Gmail and login to your account. If you do not have one, perhaps this would be the best time to sign up (it’s free and you get tons of features to play with). If you already have a Google account and you are logged in, access Labs by simply clicking here (this will skip Step 2 of the tutorial).
Step 2 – In the top right corner of the screen, right next to your user name you should be able to see “Settings”; click it. Now locate “Labs” and click it as well.
Step 3 – Locate “Inbox preview” and select “Enable”. Click “Save Changes” (at the bottom of the screen) and you’re done.
In related news, Gmail Labs brought one other interesting feature to Gmail this week: Automatic Email Translation.
Software Engineer Peter Balsiger comments: “Imagine that you access Gmail on a super slow connection from a remote place in Ethopia where it might take minutes to completely load your inbox. The disappointment is larger when you find out that there is nothing new to read and you could have saved all that time. To ease this pain a bit, we created a new feature in Gmail Labs called Inbox Preview. While Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed.
In order to enable the “Inbox preview” Labs feature, follow these simple steps:
Step 1 – Go to Gmail and login to your account. If you do not have one, perhaps this would be the best time to sign up (it’s free and you get tons of features to play with). If you already have a Google account and you are logged in, access Labs by simply clicking here (this will skip Step 2 of the tutorial).
Step 2 – In the top right corner of the screen, right next to your user name you should be able to see “Settings”; click it. Now locate “Labs” and click it as well.
Step 3 – Locate “Inbox preview” and select “Enable”. Click “Save Changes” (at the bottom of the screen) and you’re done.
In related news, Gmail Labs brought one other interesting feature to Gmail this week: Automatic Email Translation.
