GMail logins might look a little different today. Google officially announced this morning their new Gmail inbox, which sorts incoming messages automatically, making it easier to find your important content. In theory, this is a more advanced version of their existing "Priority Inbox", but improves upon the model.

The new inbox, which you can choose to use if you're not using Priority Inbox, is a different version of the same concept. This new system sticks tabs across the top - up to five of them, for "Primary" messages (basically, ones from real people, plus anything else you haven't chosen to weed out), Social (stuff like Facebook and Twitter updates), Promotions (ads), Updates (bills, notifications, etc.) and Forums (mailing lists and the like). This is opposed to attempting to figure out which messages matter most to you and then promoting them to the top of your inbox. Each current tab indicates how many unread messages are in each category, so the user can monitor incoming GMail messages even if they don't pop up on your current tab.

At a glance, this seems to be simpler and more approachable than Priority Inbox, since Gmail is only trying to sort messages into general categories rather than figure out which people are more important to you than others. And you need to proactively click around to other tabs to see less-important messages, so the Primary tab feels more streamlined than Priority Inbox's stacked-inboxes approach.

This new inbox is an intriguing option for people who haven't warmed to Priority Inbox. People who want their mail to be sorted, putting the most important stuff where they can access it easily.