Google Inbox now auto-suggests reminders from your email

Whether you’ve accepted that Google sweeps through your email for keywords or whatnot, you’re getting new handy features for it. Google Inbox is adding another element to make it easier to keep track of your to-do list. The app now makes use of Google’s natural language understanding feature to look if a particular email needs to be turned into something actionable. You’ll be prompted by the app to make a reminder. If you chose to do that, it’ll join your Inbox messages, notify you when the specified time and place comes up, and it’ll be kept in your Reminders tab until you decide to delete it.

This feature also ties in with Google Keep and it even shows up on your Google Now stream. When you make reminders now with Keep, those also show up on your Inbox. You can choose to view them within the email app or you can tap on the link to take you to Keep. This feature works on the web and iOS as well.

Source: PCWorld

Inbox on Android adds widgets for composing emails and reminders

Accessing Google’s Inbox will be getting a bit easier with the latest update from the app. Version 1.9 of Inbox lets Android users put two widgets on the home screen: one to compose an email and another to make a reminder. You can easily find these from the Widgets section of your app drawer once you update your app.

Source: PCWorld | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Google I/O: Google opens access to Inbox

You no longer have to scour for Google Inbox updates. Google announced at its I/O developer’s conference that the email client is now available for download from the Google Play and Apple App Store.

The app also now has a much-requested Undo Send option. It also now shows your reminders in Google Keep inside Inbox. And Trip Bundles automatically collates your trip-related emails and highlights the key information you’d need. Inbox now also supports custom signatures and you can enable a “swipe to delete” gesture as well.

Source: Gmail Blog | Download: Google Play Store (Free) + Apple App Store (Free)

Google Inbox-inspired April Fool's prank has potential real-world use

Pranks are abound today (even in the tech world) but there are some ideas we wished became actual products. One such item is the Google Inbox-inspired Smartbox. True to its name, this "smart mailbox" will sort through your physical mail and put them into folders. Notify you on your phone when new mail has arrived. It'll even deliver electric shocks for spam mail sent to you (much to the annoyance of your mail man). 

The Smartbox has a touchscreen built into the side for when you want to check notifications and the like. You open the mailbox via a waving gesture. You can even detach the box from the pole and bring it with you. Yes, traditional mail can be portable, too. The Smartbox needs Inbox by Gmail to work. Now, someone get working on an actual interpretation of this! 

Source: Google | Via: Android Police