Google May Be About To Blow Up Email With Its "inbox" App

Google may have just dropped a bomb on traditional email with "Inbox," a new app for Web and mobile that appears to break a lot of long-standing email tropes.Inbox looks like a mobile-focused cross between Gmail, Google+ and Google Now. It scans your mail for important information such as flight times, appointments and emailed photos or documents, highlighting them with images, tags and buttons that draw your attention and let you take action (for instance, by confirming a flight).Travel reminders pop out of your regular email streamGoggle's new email app steals a helpful feature from Dropbox's Mailbox app that lets you "snooze" emails and reminders for a day, a week or any other time you like, letting you effectively postpone less urgent messages.Hit the snooze button on emailIt also lets you set reminders at the top of your screen that you can dismiss with a swipe.