Do you use Gmail?
Attention Gmail users: Have you noticed the 3 new categories that Google has recently superimposed on our inboxes, Primary, Social, Promotions?
Disorienting as it may be, this new e-mail organization thing is amazingly in sync with the Jewish calendar!
The Jewish Month of Elul (we entered this week) is a time of reckoning, a time to prepare for the High-Holidays and get into the mode of new beginnings. Life can be quite hectic. Our schedules, families, relationships and work pull us in so many directions. The Jewish Month of Elul is an excellent time to pause, reprioritize and reorganize.
So yes - whether you use Gmail, Yahoo! or AOL - now is Jewish High Time for logging into the ‘flooded inbox’ of life and to start creating tabs!
What is ‘priority mail’? What can be ‘deleted’? What is pure ‘Spam’?
It’s almost as if somewhere in the corporate Google universe, they have caught wind of the approaching Jewish New Year, and they’ve created a platform for us to prepare accordingly.
Thank you Google!
P.S. And if you find emails from us going to 'Promotional' be sure to drag them back into Primary!