Pritam Pebam

Gmail Labs

Google has done a lot to improve its emailing features and User interaction through the Labs module. However, I strongly felt that the gmail labs lack one ‘mundane’ feature which everyone needs and would be happy to include with; and that is – an urgency rating system.

If you are one person who uses the email service frequently to communicate, you perhaps must have come to notice that the rating system is extremely essential.

What Google can add to its labs feature is a 5 options rating module, say something like the one shown on the right. The module is suppose to rate the urgency of the email.

What one usually does is read the email he or she receives first, and so the last email you sent, even though it is urgent, could be read last. It’s kind of a FIFO arrangement. You can mention in the subject line, the degree of urgency but there is a better way to do that.

You can simply send a ‘Someone’s Dying’ rated email. The subject line will appear in the corresponding color and one will identify it as soon as he sees the subject, (everyone reads the subject to the mails they received..don’t they?).

Someone’s Dying:

Feature

This is an email of the greatest priority. You rate this when there is and extreme need for the recipient to read the mail as soon as possible.

Finish your Coffee:

This are normal emails. The recipient reads it as when he feels like reading. Most emails should fall in this category.

I’m Feeling Lucky:

It is a Google style rate. The recipient reads it as he wants. You can rate this when you think the email is really interesting.

Actions Required:

You give this rating when the recipient needs to perform some Actions; as the likes in which site administrators sent to its users to inform the change in its privacy policy and the users need to accept it before continuing using.

No Reply:

This is an email sent when you don’t need a reply but want to inform the recipient.

*This post was originally made on FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2009 on my other blog.