{"id":12184,"date":"2010-08-11T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/whats-new-in-gmail-interface\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:11:37","slug":"whats-new-in-gmail-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whats-new-in-gmail-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in Gmail&#8217;s interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I logged in to my Gmail account, like I do everyday, but I noticed something different. Yeah, <strong>Gmail&#8217;s interface has been slightly redesigned<\/strong> to make it a bit friendlier and easier to use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/gmail-01.png\" alt=\"What\u2019s new in Gmail interface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first thing that caught my eye is that now <strong>Mail<\/strong>, <strong>Contacts <\/strong>and <strong>Tasks <\/strong>have been separated from the rest of links on the left sidebar, and moved upwards. The <strong>Compose mail<\/strong> function is now a button, rather than just a text link that was sometimes hard to find.\u00a0 Also, the different options to select messages (All, None, Read, Unread, Starred and Unstarred) are now neatly organized in a drop-down men, besides the <strong>Archive <\/strong>button.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/gmail-04.png\" alt=\"What\u2019s new in Gmail interface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the main changes are found in <strong>Contacts<\/strong>, where the Google team have added a bunch of new features. You can now use in Contacts the same keyboard shortcuts that work for Mail, sort contacts by last name (you&#8217;ll find the option under the <strong>More Actions<\/strong> menu) and create and edit contacts more easily thanks to the <strong>Undo <\/strong>and <strong>Automatic saving<\/strong> functions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/gmail-02.png\" alt=\"What\u2019s new in Gmail interface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each contact has a complete entry with support for <strong>custom labels<\/strong>, which makes it possible to use various phones, addresses or emails under the same contact, but also create any other field you may need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/08\/gmail-03.png\" alt=\"What\u2019s new in Gmail interface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Contacts are now easier to manage and organize. The <strong>Merge<\/strong> contacts option under the <strong>More actions<\/strong> menu lets you merge two or more selected contacts, while the <strong>Find and merge duplicates<\/strong> option automatically creates a list of possible contacts to merge for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I logged in to my Gmail account, like I do everyday, but I noticed something different. Yeah, Gmail&#8217;s interface has been slightly redesigned to make it a bit friendlier and easier to use. The first thing that caught my eye is that now Mail, Contacts and Tasks have been separated from the rest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whats-new-in-gmail-interface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s new in Gmail&#8217;s interface&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2339],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334817,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/334817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}