How to test the main feature of the new Gmail interface

Pop-up button, delayed letters and other features that can be tested now.

How to see the new design

Include updated design Google Mail web client is ridiculously simple. Open Gmail, click the gear icon and select "Try the new version of Gmail». Everything.

If you have something does not suit, you can easily go back to the classic look. Anyway, so far.

The interface has changed considerably, animations are smoother. The main thing - to work with e-mail is faster and more convenient with the new chips.

What functions can be tested

pop-up button

Now you do not have to open their emails to archive or delete them. Simply move the cursor to the letter, and you'll see pop-up button to quickly perform actions with mail. Letter, you can archive, delete, mark as read or aside one click.

New sidebar

On the right you can see miniature icons Google Calendar, Google Keep and Google Task. Click on one of them. Side will be comfortable bar, where you can manage your events and appointments in the calendar, create notes, and tasks.

Furthermore, the sidebar can add third-party add-ons, such Trello for Gmail. And it's incredibly convenient.

Especially useful it becomes panel tasks, if you remember that Google has finally got its own mobile app Task for Android and iOS. And yes, you can drag and drop their letters directly to the panel to quickly create tasks with them.

Snooze for later

Put off something until tomorrow when you can do it next week, of course, is not very good. But, you see, sometimes nice to have such an opportunity.

If you are drowning in a stream of correspondence and see a letter that you do not want to lose, put it up to a point. It will disappear from your mailbox, as if you did not receive it. Then it will appear again at the set time in the "Inbox", so you will probably see him the folder.

Pleasant trifles

Updated Gmail allows you to add the recipient by typing their names directly in the message body. Click the "+" and type in the desired name of the contact. Simple, is not it?

In addition, Google has updated the design of tooltips that appear when the mouse hovers over the contacts. Now when you hover over the names of people displays information from Google Contacts. And you can send them a message, schedule a meeting or start a video chat with Hangouts with one touch.

What to expect in the near future

Google intends in the coming weeks to present a few updated features:

• Work Offline Gmail. You will be able to search, write, and delete your messages accumulated over a period of up to 90 days in stand-alone mode.
• Confidential Mode. You will be able to prohibit the recipient to forward, copy, download or print your messages. Or, if you want, set a mandatory authentication of recipients via text messages to you, before they get your email. Even if the recipient's mailbox is compromised, the attackers did not read your messages.
• Those who tried Inbox application from Google, are probably familiar with this feature. Now, Gmail will offer rapid responses to incoming messages, depending on the context and language that you normally use. Simply click on 'Smart Reply', and the letter sent to him go.
• Reminders of forgotten messages. If any letter is a long time to wallow in the "Inbox" folder, Gmail will remind you about it.
• Protection against fraudulent messages. Now phishing emails will be labeled a big red warning not to notice that very difficult.

Obviously, the developers decided to udelat Gmail seriously tricked out such a monster like Outlook, saving all the ease and simplicity of their Web client. And they got it.