Based on my read of it, it’s more like using a spam detector, but in reverse. Instead of learning which email is junk, it will learn (through analysis of your mail patterns and explicit training) which email is particularly important, and will label that mail so it’s more visible.

Presumably, one would be able to use Multiple Inboxes to present an inbox with a filter to show only important messages (much as I now have inboxes showing my “waiting on” and “next action” status mails).

I think the simplest interaction with ActiveInbox or GTD is likely to be using Priority as an aid to, well, prioritizing which inbox item should be handled first, or which action item should be taken up next.

Not got it on my account yet, but hopefully it will be useful for attacking bigger inboxes (after you’ve been away, etc).

Would be nice if it allows you to select ‘All Unimportant’ mail, as I get a bunch of stuff you can just acknowledge at the list level and archive straight off (Facebook notifications, etc).

It’s on my account and works beautifully with ActiveInbox. Yes, it’s like the reverse of spam filter. Appears to do a very good job of popping up to the top all the important e-mails so that I can process them with ActiveInbox. It drops to the bottom those that I don’t need to even look at let alone read until end of the day. I just cleared out about 25 e-mails that had dropped to the bottom today and all but one I could just delete w/o reading–that one was a Linkedin request that had no urgency. It actually allows FOUR Inbox sections. I current have it set for 1. Priority 2. S/Next Action 3. S/Action 4. Everything else.

There is some info on Amplify that might help:
http://bit.ly/bnQoCA

I added a couple of links to info about how to train it:

Using Gmail’s new “Priority Inbox” to overcome email overload: – Freelance Advisor
http://bit.ly/99Q7Xg

How to Train Google’s E-mail Triage System (good explanation of the algorithm and how to tweak to best effect): NY Times Gadgetwise blogs
http://nyti.ms/9g1SRV

I think this will be very helpful… looks like they may have taken some inspiration from IntegratedGmail http://www.integratedgmail.com in the way they have collapsible sections for the Priority Inbox page. Good thing is it works great with ActiveInbox and IntegratedGmail so it doesn’t break our systems it just adds another valuable layer of information. If you like Priority Inbox and how it collapses and expands key mailboxes on the main Inbox page, then you’ll like IntegratedGmail and how it works with things like Google Calendar, Docs, Reader, and Labels as well.

I can see how this will become even more useful as you train it, but right out of the box it was pretty good at getting the Priority items right… it didn’t get them all but the ones it predicted were right. The others may be because some emails that you don’t reply to are also important — those you would probably have to train.

Sorry to hear you don’t have it yet to try Andy… hope you get it soon!

Hi everyone,

I got it on my account too. It works well with ActiveInbox *except* for the “Preview & Action Emails in Inbox and Search Results with Right Click” function (and the cube icon).

Got it at last!

I’ve had a play with the customisation, and I’ve seen you can change and add sections to your own requirements.

In true GTD style, I’m trying out the following:

1. All S/Next Action
2. Important and Unread
3. Starred
4. Everything else

I might try 3.1.2.4 instead to handle priority actions, but for now, I’d like to get into the habit of concentrating on Next Actions rather than New items.

Phil

I notice a number of people use starred and S/Next Action as separate categories – I am not clear what they use them for. I think there used to be an option to label an item as S/Next Action when starred which I would find useful again to avoid duplication.

Yes, I’m not sure either

I mostly use it because it’s there, but it’s mostly a hack when I’m not being a good GTDer.

With Next Action and the absolutely wonderful Date flagging in ActiveInbox, there’s really no justfication for it – it can just be a backup flag to keep things in your mind. That said, I think I’ll keep it below NA and the Inbox.

Phil

I think I like it – but I need to sort out when to use star, action and next action to make the best of it – am more convinced I need to merge starred and next action somehow.

Well, to it has a major problem: it is not compatible with multiple-inboxes (you has to go back to regular inbox to get those). The tabs of priority inbox does not help with this, as the rules/filter it allows are very basic. For instance, I have a context C/NextWeek, and in one of my inboxes I was looking at S/NextAction -C/NextWeek (that is, only next actions of THIS week). I cannot do that with Priority Inbox.

As was pointed out, the right click functions do not work. For a work around, you can use Multiple Inboxes with Priority Inbox filters. In Multiple Inboxes you can set up filters such as “is:important in:inbox is:unread”, “is:important in:inbox -is:unread”, “-is:important in:inbox” to recreate the options in Priority Inbox. I then selected the option to place Multiple Inboxes above the Inbox.

You are right, Andy. It does precisely that. ” it’s just a good way to ensure you don’t miss important emails as they enter your inbox. ” I been trying it and that’s how it’s helping me.

Let me remind you that the search feature with AIB does help locate my important files, be they, PDF/Jpeg/ Doc or whatever!

Thank you for it. That much more easier to keep track of all those important attachments!

Hi, do I need to deactivate “priority inbox” before I used Activeinbox?

If I am using iPhone is there any Activeinbox apps for that?

Hi Reggie,

It’s fine to use ActiveInbox & Priority Inbox together, but alas no, no iphone apps just yet!