What I need is a Hierarchical Inbox not a Priority Inbox
People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
First off, I only use gmail for my personal account. I could not care less about priority there, I hardly get any important email there and the mail I get there can wait.
The most critical inbox is my work inbox. Gmail does not support IMAP (to access other emails) and my work does not support POP3. So cannot use the gmail features for work anyways.
However, if I needed an improvement in my work Inbox, its to do with prioritizing by management and team hierarchy.
I need a tree view of emails from my tech leads, my developers across shores, my boss, my vp, my bosses peer, my vps peer, mails where my boss is copied, mails where my vp is copied, mails from my project manager, from my project managers peers. You see where I am going.
There is no need for extra smartness, the above is what I need. I still cannot get.
Can I not set rules to achieve the above? Sure I can but I don't want to, thats manual. All the above hierarchy is available with an API, this structuring can be automated without the need to set rules.
