New Gmail inbox: How to use tabs to clean up your inbox for good. - Slate Magazine

Lead paragraphs from an overview of the latest Gmail inbox model

"Everyone hates the new Gmail inbox. Everyone says it’s confusing, that it will make you miss important messages, that it spams you with extra ads, and that you should change your settings back to the old ones posthaste.
Everyone is wrong. It isn’t, it won’t, it doesn’t, and you shouldn’t. The new Gmail inbox is fantastic once you get the hang of it—and if you revert to the old one, you’ll be missing out on the best thing to happen to email since the original Gmail."

New Gmail inbox: How to use tabs to clean up your inbox for good. - Slate Magazine