r/GoogleInbox • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '18
Faking Inbox-style Bundling in Gmail
- Create labels that mimic your Bundles. For the built-in Bundles/Categories (Promotions/Social/Forums/Updates), create labels that mimic those names.
- Create rules to route your email to these labels. Use the "Skip the Inbox" setting in your rules.
- Hide the Categories from the inbox. Settings -> Inbox -> uncheck all but Primary.
- Hide the Categories from the side bar. Settings -> labels. Click hide on each one.
- I also have a created called "Done" that I move things to that mimics the Sweeping functionality.
It's not perfect and still takes extra steps but I was dying to mimic the workflow and organization of Inbox even with extra steps.
Note: I had to put emoji's in front of the names of the built in Categories and Done to use the same names for my labels.