The people you correspond with the most will be in the top section along with unread mail, “starred” messages are those that aren’t of the utmost importance, but you might need to reference or get back to at any given time and “everything else” is well…exactly that. This feature could become increasingly valuable for those people that communicate with an overwhelmingly large amount of contacts every day. Having a tool that automatically organizes everything for you is like the personal assistant you’ve always wanted. Being able to open your Gmail at any time and automatically being able to see which emails require your immediate attention and which can wait awhile will save people a lot of time and, in essence, increase personal productivity.

On their official blog, Google has a video that they suggest you watch as you prepare to set up the new email overload fighting feature.

Not all Gmail users have access to the Priority Inbox as of yet. Over the next week the new tool will become available to everyone; just keep an eye out for the “New! Priority Inbox” link at the top of your Gmail account or check your settings for the Priority Inbox tab.

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We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.

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It blamed poor take-up by users of the service, which was launched to great fanfare just one year ago.

At the time Google described the tool as “how e-mail would look if it were invented today”.

It combined e-mail, instant messaging and features that allowed people to collaborate on documents in real-time.

Users could see edits and comments written by other “Wavers” as they were typed.

“Wave has not seen the adoption we would have liked,” said Urs Holzle of the firm in a blog post.

“We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.”

The product was created by two brothers Jens and Lars Rasmussen, who were also behind Google Maps.

‘Clever product’

Last year Lars Rasmussen acknowledged to BBC News that the success of the platform depended on how many people were willing to join and use the tool.

“Without other people adopting Wave, it will never take off,” he said.

“I have been accused of being pathologically optimistic about it but I can’t see why people wouldn’t want it.”

Google has not said how many people signed up for or used Wave.

Speaking at Techonomy, a technology conference in Lake Tahoe, California, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said it was hard to say why Wave did not strike a chord with a majority of users.

“It’s a very clever product. You never know why it didn’t work.

“Our policy is we try things. Remember we celebrate our failure. This is a company where it is okay to try something that is very hard and not have it be successful.”

Mr Schmidt said that Google will take what it has learned and apply it to something new. He refused to be drawn on what products the technology will be used in.

Many people who tried Wave complained that it was too hard to use or that they did not understand why they would use it.

“It was just too ambitious of an idea for mainstream popularity,” said MG Siegler of the technology blog TechCrunch.com told BBC News.

“They were trying to do many things in a new way that people weren’t accustomed to. And while it may it have been great as a productivity tool, I don’t think Google pitched it well when they introduced it.

“That said, it would have taken a long time for the idea to gain any kind of popularity.”

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