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Gmail is broken, but customizable tabs could fix it.
  • Gmail's tabbed inbox hasn't adapted for the modern internet.
  • Newsletters get spread out among different tabs.
  • We need to be able to customize the tabs!

I don't think I know anyone who feels good about their email inbox. For a lot of people, it feels like an unmanageable mess of obligations and junk, a "shame closet" repository for a decade of mailing lists you didn't realize you had signed up for. For some people, their inbox is so excruciating that they've just given up — refusing to even check it or declaring email bankruptcy.