How to Track and Organise your Travel Plans with Google Inbox

Google inbox is now available for everyone who want it. Google announced it officially in Google I/O on May 2015.from now on everyone can download google inbox without invitation. The new version of Gmail inbox has a handful of new features and one of the main features help the users to keep an eye on their travel plans.

Gmail already has this feature ,Google scan your Gmail inbox for travel information’s (like Flight Time, Travel Date, Hotel Booking) and give you that information when you search for “my trip” in Google Search. A simple version of this feature is available in inbox App, the App will automatically bundle all the email that have your travel information and pin it to the front Page.

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To see your upcoming Travel plans tap Trips from the inbox menu. Most of the results will be hotel bookings and flight ticket confirmation the cool thing is you will see a random photo of your destination. You can see more details by tapping an entry most likely you will see information about the gate your plane leaves and hotel room number.

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If your travel related emails are in your inbox it will show your travel information on Trips bundle. If you want to hide a trip from your inbox, go to inbox menu (three vertical dots) and tap “Delete this Trip”. The mail will always remain in your inbox however inbox won’t show a bundle for it anywhere.

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Inbox has some other cool features like rather than archiving an email you can send it to your trash by swiping to the right, undo sent emails, set signature for Emails, and improved Google keep integration let to see reminders on inbox and Google Keep.

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a Quick Guide to Google inbox

Inbox is a new Email Service by Google. The design of Google Inbox is clean and simple. Inbox is meant to present your Emails in a different way. Google Inbox User Interface is not immediately intuitive, but once you get the hang of it, Inbox will become a most important tool in your life.

Inbox is currently not available for everyone. You have to get Invite from google to use Inbox. You can request an Email invite by yourself.

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In Gmail, our emails are listed by their Subject headings. Inbox show the emails in a different way.in the web version of inbox Bundles, Email threads, and uncategorized emails are shown as Horizontal bars. You can see Senders name or Email Address in the Horizontal bar of a Bundle.

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If an Email has Attachments it will be Visible as a large icon, tapping or clicking the icons of PDF files, office files or Google Drive files will load them into the file viewer. You can View your Attachments without Opening the Email. You can even download the Attachments without Opening the message.

Customization

Gmail has Options to create a customized label for emails based on things like Sender name, Email Address, Subject, or Specific keywords in their Message. However, Gmail web version doesn’t have options to set the labels as tabs along with the categories included by default in Gmail. In Inbox, you can create your own Bundle and you can set your custom bundle to appear in the Timeline.

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Inbox Bundles

Gmail analyzes the contents of our incoming emails and sort them into categories by default four categories (Updates, Primary, Social, Promotions) are there. You can activate the fifth category forums in Gmail Settings. 

Google inbox also offer the Feature in inbox it is known as Bundles. Inbox sort the emails into several more categories such as Purchases, Finance, Travel, Social, Promos, Updates, and Forums. 

Inbox Timeline

In Gmail Web version, each email categories are presented as tabs. Mobile version also has tabs you have to tap the 3-bar icon or swipe in to view the Categories in mobile.in Inbox mobile version and Web version bundles and incoming Emails are well-arranged in a vertical Timeline view. And the bundles order will change based on the most recent incoming Email.

Highlighting Emails

In Gmail, if you mark an email to Archive it will be removed from Gmail inbox and stored for later use. You can view the Archived emails in all mail. Gmail also has a feature that allow users to mark important Emails with a Star.

In Inbox Google modified Gmail Archive and Star functionalities into different features. You can mark emails as Done by clicking/tapping the check icon in the horizontal bar. You can also mark a bundle to sweep them. You can find Bundles and emails that marked as done inside the done label in Timeline.

Snooze Reminders

if you’re in inconvenient place or simply need to focus on something else first, you can snooze your emails and reminders away to a time that you are comfortable for reading email.

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For example if you run into a busy day ,and you still want to reply to your emails before end of the day or end of the week .with inbox snooze option you can snooze your emails to a different time or a place. Inbox responds to your settings and adjusts its snooze options to match

Google Inbox Email Reminder

Google inbox has some useful new Tricks.as much time I spend in my inbox, I think inbox is better than Gmail. Before using inbox I used to do list to remember my tasks. Now instead of creating a separate to do list I use inbox to create reminders. When you create a reminder the remainder will be added to the top of your inbox. If you are not using inbox send an Email to inbox@google.com to get inbox invitation .

Inbox reminder help you to finish your tasks faster by providing Assistants and information’s, like countdown to deadline, Birthdays, Important Phone numbers and more. Sometimes we get important email from friends and family some of the emails might be very important. Inbox lets you add reminders to emails; just pin the email and you will see options to create an email as reminder.

If you don’t want to see a reminder before the deadline you can snooze your reminder to come back later. You can even create repeating Reminders for things that need to done on regular basis like paying Rent, taking a walk ,calling your mother .no matter what you need to remember inbox Reminder is the place to keep track of the things you need to Complete.

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How to Create a Reminder from Email

1. Open the Email that you want to set as reminder

2. Click on the Pin icon

3. At the top of the email you will see “Remember to” following that type a name for your Reminder

4. Click Save.

5. If you want you can snooze the Email

How to create Reminder

1. Open your Inbox

2. Click on the Create button

3. Choose Reminder

4. Choose a reminder from the suggestions or you can add your own reminder. If you wanted to reminded in a certain Day or time even a place select Snooze.

5. Save

The remainder will be pinned to your inbox. If you created your reminder for different time or place you will find it in snoozed items in the main menu.

How to Create Repeating Reminder

If something you wanted to remember regularly you can create a repeating reminder

1. Snooze a reminder

2. Pick date and time or place

3. Choose first day of your reminder and choose a specific time

4. Select does not repeat and choose one of the options.

5. Click Save

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We all have reasons to hate Email. Because most of the email that we have on our inbox is spam mails it makes our inbox look cluttered. And we can’t just stop using email. Last month google introduced inbox a new email interface with minimal features. it’s like Gmail’s cute little brother .inbox looks clean, smooth and loaded with Productivity boosting features .with google inbox your professional life is about to be changed here is some of the way to use inbox effectively.

Preview Email Attachments without Opening Email

In Gmail Attachment are indicated by little paperclip symbol. but inbox is bit different from Gmail.it will show what are the attachments are inside in your email and allow you to open attachments without opening the Email pretty cool isn’t. You can open all kind of files Documents, Excel, Pictures, Videos, Spreadsheets and everything that you receive as a attachment.

Pin Important Emails

This pin feature will help you to pin important email that you don’t want to forget. Hover over an email and tap the pin icon the mail that you pined will be in front and top of your inbox .you can un pin the emails to remove it from top of your inbox interface.

Snooze Emails

Yesterday I wrote about how to Snooze Emails on Inbox .if you get emails at an inconvenient time inbox will snooze it to come back later.to snooze emails click on the clock icon and pick a time you can pick any time you want or you can pick a place like work or Home .it will disappear from your inbox until the time you have chosen for snooze.

Bundle Emails

Bundling Email will automatically sorts your email into different Categories, like Gmail Primary, Social, Promotions and update tabs. Inbox’s bundle feature is much more stylish and easy to use. The default categories include Purchase, travel, updates, and finance and you can customize a specific email to appear in which category.

Archive bundles with Sweep

Sweep Feature Will allow you to archive your email bundles at just one click .to do that click on the check mark above bundle and it will be send to archive folder’s. Sweep will save your time for manually going through and archiving individual Emails. Your pined email will always on your inbox so you can’t archive pined emails.

How to Snooze in Google inbox

Snoozing the alarm in the morning is so nourishing .knowing that you will get extra time to sleep without worrying you are going too late for Work. Say hello to Google inbox’s new feature snooze .if you’re in inconvenient place or simply need to focus on something else first, you can snooze your emails and reminders away to a time that you are comfortable for reading email.

For example if you run into a busy day ,and you still want to replay to your mails before end of the day or end of the week .with inbox snooze option you can snooze your emails to a different time or a place. Inbox responds to your settings and adjust its snooze options to match.

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It’s better to snooze your emails to a place instead of time .for example most of us don’t get time to read personnel emails on work so when we are at work we can snooze our emails to a place like Home, Railway Station, and Library. Or you can set reminder to buy something at a place for instance you want to buy something in grocery store and you don’t want to forget it set up a reminder and snooze it to the place when you arrive grocery store you will get notification. In this way you won’t miss your emails and you will save some time.

Once you start snoozing your emails, you'll notice that Inbox will make the entire process a whole lot easier. For example: you can name and save common places like Home, Work, Doctor, Grocery Store, and Library.

How to Snooze Email

Open the email that you want to snooze

At the top of your email you will see the snooze icon select it.

Snooze options will appear choose a snooze quick option.

You can snooze a mail without opening the email to do that

Mobile: swipe left to snooze an email or reminder.

PC: move your mouse over a mail or reminder and click snooze icon on the right .

To snooze an email to a specific time

After you select snooze you can choose default options Later today, Tomorrow, or Next week .after the default time pick date &time options available. Last use the same setting that you used for previous email. You will get notification on your mobile when the time comes for the snoozed emails.

To snooze an email to a specific Place

Open an email or reminder and snooze

Click pick place on snooze option

Choose Default options Home or Work or enter a New Address.

If you want to call your old friend more this year you can just create a reminder in inbox.it will help you snooze to a time or place with assistances.

Somehow you ever get ahead of your schedule you can check out all of your snoozed emails and reminders in the inbox menu. Open snoozed from menu and edit snoozed items move them to your inbox or just review everything you have snoozed to some other day.

Totally inbox is great app to read emails and organize them in a smart way