Pretty Cool

This is what my in-box looked like this morning when I fired up the 'puter:

Google's update fairies came by late last night and blessed me with g-mail's new "prioritized" in-box.  Since Google does the 'splainin' better than I could...

I don't get a lot of e-mail these days... not compared to the three or four hundred e-mails I got every frickin'  day when I was working... and I sure could have used a "priority" in-box back then.  Well, I did have a priority system, of sorts.  It was called the "delete" key and approximately half of my daily e-mail traffic was deleted, unread.  I could go off on a rant here about e-mail, stupid e-mail users, and corporate spam but I won't.  Anyone and everyone in the working world knows what I'm on about.

The only thing I don't like about g-mail's priority system is it puts your starred mail in your in-box.  I've been using the star feature for years... I use it to flag certain messages I don't want to have to search for, which is different than g-mail's "I'll get back to this later" ideer.  But: no biggie.  You can minimize the starred portion of your in-box, and I've done just that.  All in all?  I like it.  I like g-mail a lot, too... mainly coz it has the BEST spam filter, evah.

And now to read today's mail.