Gmail announces new "Inbox" product

Gmail announced today on their blog a new product “Inbox” to help make the inbox more useful and more of a center of activity.
“We get more email now than ever, important information is buried inside messages, and our most important tasks can slip through the cracks—especially when we’re working on our phones. For many of us, dealing with email has become a daily chore that distracts from what we really need to do—rather than helping us get those things done.”
Inbox lets people organize their emails to help them get things done. Creating tasks, organizing threads and discussions, all of that can now be done in this new application.