Gmail Labs : Multiple inboxes

Google has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs:

Multiple inboxes

In addition to default inbox, you can add two more labels in the default view.

How to add this?

1. Go to Gmail Labs settings

2. Enable, “Multiple Inboxes”, Save changes

3. Go to Multiple Inboxes tab in Gmail Settings, select the labels you want in the default view.

4. Give the label names as “label:LabelName” in the Pane 0, 1.. text boxes.

These panes are not just labels, you can view

emails from a particular contact “from:(emailid@example.com)“,

emails containing a particular String “Search string“,

Drafts “is:Draft“,

Starred “is:Starred“,

Spam “is:Spam“,

Sent “is:Sent“, and

Labels “label:LabelName” .

If you want a pane, that should display messages from a particular contact, give “from:(emailid@example.com)” in the Pane text box.

Or if you want to have all the email messages that has the word “Adsense”, just give “Adsense” in the pane box.