I do wonder what Google’s Gmail is evolving into few day back they released Gmail offline mode which we covered and today they have launched yet another lab’s edition ‘Gmail Multiple Inbox’. Which makes me wonder if gMail is evolving into a full scale business application.

As the name say’s Multiple Inbox does not give you ability to have Gmail inbox for seperate email accounts which we are using with Gmail, this was the first thing that came in to my mind. Though Multiple Inbox gives you ability to divide your inbox into portions and help you sort your email easily. Simply after installing Gmail Multiple Inbox you can go to setting and set up rules for the multiple inbox i.e. any mail that is marked with a star  ‘is:stared’ show it separately in you multiple inbox panel also you can configure where you want to place your multiple inbox i.e. on top , or on left or bottom.

So Multiple Inbox is the ability to divide your inbox into portions based on your own settings. A good feature to sort your mails but adding to many labs feature does give issues with performance, specially the initial loading of gMail is becoming problematic in Firefox.

Source: Google Blog > Multiple Inbox in gMail