By Jay Peters
Publication Date: 2026-01-08 13:00:00
Google is announcing a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that, instead of presenting your emails in a traditional list, uses AI to offer personalized to-dos and summaries of topics you might want to follow from your emails.
It’s a potentially huge shift in how you might navigate your Gmail, especially if you have a lot to sort through or if you (like me) already use your inbox as a to-do list. In a demo video, AI Inbox suggests tasks like rescheduling a dentist appointment, replying to a coach, and paying a sports tournament fee, and also summarizes topics to catch up on, like a team’s soccer season and a family gathering.
Google is initially rolling AI Inbox out to “trusted testers” in the US using browsers, and it will be available first for consumer Gmail accounts — you can’t use it with Workspace accounts yet. There’s also not yet a way to mark if you have completed one of the suggested items — it’s something Google is working on, according to the company’s VP of…
