On: In killing Inbox, Google takes another swipe at it...

[dawnerd]

I hate their “new” tabs that tries to categorize emails. It’s just extra clicks to get to the emails I want. It’s forced me to go back to a dedicated email app.

[placuaf → dawnerd]

What are you talking about man? You can easily turn it off in "configure inbox" section.

[dawnerd → placuaf]

Can you? If so it’s not obvious at all.

[alexnewman → placuaf]

Yea but disables other things as well. Like the ability to snooze

[bootlooped → alexnewman]

Enabling/disabling tabs via "Configure Inbox", or through Settings > Inbox > Categories does not effect the ability to snooze. The only thing it effects is whether emails are sorted into different tabs or not.

[bootlooped → dawnerd]

Tabs were not something just introduced in the new UI, the have been in Gmail for 5 years. You can turn them off in settings, or drag and drop emails into different tabs to train it. Gmail has a very high degree of customization and available settings.

[dannyw → bootlooped]

I never knew you could drag and drop to retrain. That needs to be more discoverable.

[orky56 → dawnerd]

The feature/lab "Multiple Inboxes" overrides this. That's why I have been using and continue to use through Inbox and all the latest Gmail changes.

[bootlooped → orky56]

I wish there were something in between Multiple Inboxes and tabs. I would like to make my own tabbed categories for my inbox.

[fooker → bootlooped]

You are looking for Labels.