Speaker 1: Google on Veil's a brand new Gmail. Mrich Tomirow. This
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. Google says it's time for
Speaker 1: a refresh, and that's exactly what it's doing today with Gmail.
Speaker 1: The company is revamping the look and feel of Gmail
Speaker 1: on the web and in their apps, and they're adding
Speaker 1: lots of new useful features. Yeah, it's gonna take some
Speaker 1: getting used to, but I think you're gonna like some
Speaker 1: of them. It all looks inspired by Inbox, which was
Speaker 1: Google's last attempt to revamp Gmail, but that never really
Speaker 1: took off. It was optional, so not everyone switched to it.
Speaker 1: But I think Google picked the best features out of
Speaker 1: there and built them into the new Gmail. It seems
Speaker 1: like these changes will go live for everyone at some point.
Speaker 1: Right now, I still don't have access to the new inbox,
Speaker 1: but you can check for access by going to Gmail,
Speaker 1: clicking the little settings gear in the upper right hand
Speaker 1: corner of your email list, and then looking for Try
Speaker 1: the new Gmail, and don't worry. If you try you
Speaker 1: don't like it, you can always go back for now. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the first thing you'll notice is that files and
Speaker 1: photos are surfaced front and center in your inbox. So
Speaker 1: this is really handy. Let's say you have a big,
Speaker 1: long conversation with someone, right a chain back and forth,
Speaker 1: and at some point you asked for a file they
Speaker 1: sent it to you. Well, now instead of looking through
Speaker 1: all those different emails in that chain for that file,
Speaker 1: you'll just be able to see it front and center
Speaker 1: in your inbox, so that's really easy. Next up, you'll
Speaker 1: notice a snooze button, which is really handy. Basically, if
Speaker 1: you get an email that you don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with right now, you can snooze it just like you
Speaker 1: would an alarm, and it will pop up again at
Speaker 1: a later time, and you can say when you want
Speaker 1: that to pop up, whether it's morning, afternoon, evening, or
Speaker 1: maybe a specific time as well, so that's really cool.
Speaker 1: There's also finally a dedicated tasks app. So I don't
Speaker 1: know how you operate, but basically, as I'm going through
Speaker 1: my email, I'm building a to do list off of
Speaker 1: my emails, and that requires a lot of different things
Speaker 1: different apps. I write some of them down in a planner,
Speaker 1: but now that there's a dedicated tasks app, I can
Speaker 1: finally cut and paste little pieces of information that I need,
Speaker 1: things I need to do, and it's all integrated with Gmail.
Speaker 1: Now there is a separate app. It's called Google Tasks.
Speaker 1: You can download it right now in Android or iOS.
Speaker 1: But the cool thing is that you can also get
Speaker 1: a one click link to it right inside Gmail. There's
Speaker 1: also a part of Keep that is right in Gmail,
Speaker 1: so now you kind of have one screen for all
Speaker 1: of your organization and productivity. I love that. Another future
Speaker 1: I think I'll love is the nudge. So how many
Speaker 1: times have you had a back and forth conversation with
Speaker 1: someone and then all of a sudden, one of you
Speaker 1: goes silent. Most of the time, it's me because I
Speaker 1: just forget. Well, this is really cool because Gmail will
Speaker 1: notice that you are talking back and forth and you
Speaker 1: didn't say anything for like a couple of days. So
Speaker 1: Gmail will actually nudge you to respond to that message.
Speaker 1: One of the futures I love on mobile is now
Speaker 1: available on the web. It's called smart Reply. Google basically
Speaker 1: scans your messages that you're getting and will come up
Speaker 1: with certain replies, so they call them smart replies. It'll say,
Speaker 1: if someone says, hey, let's do lunch Friday at eleven,
Speaker 1: it might sugg asked, sure, no, can't make that, or
Speaker 1: how about Friday at twelve and all you have to
Speaker 1: do is tap once and you can send that right
Speaker 1: on to the person. I find these really handy. Another
Speaker 1: feature high priority notifications on mobile. So basically Gmail is
Speaker 1: going to figure out which are the most important messages
Speaker 1: and then send only those notifications to your phone. And
Speaker 1: this is pretty smart because a lot of times the
Speaker 1: first thing I do at Gmail is turn off all
Speaker 1: notifications on my phone because I just get too many
Speaker 1: of them. But if they can surface just important emails
Speaker 1: from like my boss, or my wife or certain friends,
Speaker 1: that'd be really cool. Gmail is also going to start
Speaker 1: suggesting when you should unsubscribe from newsletters if you don't
Speaker 1: read one for a while, or maybe offers you no
Speaker 1: longer care about. There's gonna be big bold warnings about
Speaker 1: suspicious emails, so that's really smart. A lot of times
Speaker 1: these phishing emails look pretty sly they slip into the inbox,
Speaker 1: once in a while, there will be big bold red
Speaker 1: warnings to say, don't do anything with this email. And finally,
Speaker 1: the feature that a lot of people talked about because
Speaker 1: it was rumored for a while now confidential mode. So
Speaker 1: this will allow you to remove the option to forward, copy, download,
Speaker 1: or print messages. So let's say you're sending something that's
Speaker 1: sensitive via email, like I don't know, a copy of
Speaker 1: your driver's license or a tax return or your Social
Speaker 1: Security number. You can say this message is not able
Speaker 1: to be forwarded or copied, or downloaded or printed, or
Speaker 1: you can make it expire after a set amount of time. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta say all this with the caveat of think
Speaker 1: about it. Anything that is sent through email can be screenshot.
Speaker 1: The person on the other ends could take a picture
Speaker 1: of it. So confidential mode does not mean it's fool proof.
Speaker 1: It just means it's a little bit tougher to forward
Speaker 1: to a bunch of people. Google says, as of today,
Speaker 1: certain people are going to start getting it. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal, these things always roll out slowly. If you
Speaker 1: want to try to get it right now again, you
Speaker 1: can click that little settings gear in the upper right
Speaker 1: hand corner of your email and look for try the
Speaker 1: new Gmail and again. You can go back at this point,
Speaker 1: but at some point you probably won't be able to.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to dive into the new Gmail. Tell
Speaker 1: me what you think. I'm on Twitter at rich Tamuro
Speaker 1: or on my Facebook page, Facebook dot com sa rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Hopefully I will be much more organized thanks
Speaker 1: to Google and all of these new features. I'm rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. You can get links to
Speaker 1: everything I talk about here at richontech dot tv. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you real soon