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Inbox - What your inbox should look like

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Last night, Google’s Gmail team announced Inbox: its mobile-first reimagining of the email inbox, now available by invitation only. Google has applied its learning's from Google Now to Inbox, transforming your email inbox from a list of messages to a feed with added value by calling out important information. Similarly to the Google Now app, Google’s server will read your emails and use that information to help get you "just the right information at just the right time." For example, when I receive an email with a boarding pass, Inbox will highlight that and show it in my so that I don't need to dive into the email. Google even made a web version but to be honest its nice but just not the same as the app which has all the lovely gestures in it In the screenshot above, the attachment is front and centre for easy access. This makes perfect sense -- why have attachments been at the bottom of emails or tiny icons for so long? For example, I might not read...