Gmail Adds New Labs Feature – Multiple Inboxes

The guys at Gmail have been busy lately, and just a few days after releasing offline support for Gmail, here comes another feature – Multiple Inboxes.

The name might be a bit misleading, since what this feature really does is providing a way to have multiple views of your email available at the same time and without having to open another browser window/tab.

Multiple Inboxes is available as an option in Gmail labs. Just go to Settings -> Labs and enable it. You’ll then get a new “Multiple Inboxes” tab in the Settings, where you can set up what “inboxes” you want to appear in Gmail next to the regular mail. The way to specify the contents of each “inbox” is by using Gmail’s advanced search operators. It’s also possible to change how many results show up in each “inbox” and the position of the new tabs: above, below or to the right of the regular Inbox.

It’s a handy feature for those of us who like to keep the Inbox tidy and just filter most email so that it gets labelled and archived on arrival, and then have to click through all the labels to read it.