Is Google's New AI Inbox Really Going To Help Us Or Just Create More Noise?

Hey there! Have you ever opened Gmail and only saw a huge mess of emails? Now, think of this: what if you were able to open Gmail and have an intelligent summary of everything you had to do and follow up on? This is what the recently launched AI Inbox from Google promises and many people are extremely excited about the possibilities. I recently got a sneak peek of this feature (it's still in beta), and while it could potentially drastically change the way we manage our email overload, right now, it hasn't totally sold me on it yet.

Imagine walking into Gmail and instead of seeing a long list of emails, you see an empty screen with suggested tasks such as "Review Mortgage Summary" and "Check in on Tax Chats" and each suggestion is linked to the e-mail that relates to it. Even better, it also goes back and finds stuff that maybe is in your Archive that you forgot about. Pretty cool, huh?! Google claims it's like their AI Search is for e-mail, and for people who have a messy e-mail inbox that's super helpful.

The problem for me is that I am a person who is very "inbox-zero" and I archive everything as quickly as possible and only keep five or six items in action mode. The new AI Inbox has so much text on the screen that I have to scroll through it and try to guess the order of priority because it doesn't fit my workflow. For example, the AI suggested that I "Check in on the Potty Training Updates" from my old e-mail conversations with my wife.