GMail Introduces Priority Inbox

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Gmail, the email service offered by Google, is now offering a new beta service called as the "Priority Inbox". I'm not sure if this has already appeared in Google Labs (if it has, then those people who used it there might be knowing about it) so I'm not entirely sure this is a new concept. In any case, the concept itself seems to be interesting. As expected, it has been given a "BETA" tag, and you can select to enable it from your inbox page, where you can see it on the top right corner. So what exactly does the priority inbox do? It sorts out your incoming mail so that you get to see the most important mail first, and the less important mail later on, in order of decreasing priority. For this system to be successful, you have to "train" your inbox to recognise mail that is most important to you, and what is not so important. This way, all your important mail will appear on top of your inbox, no matter when they arrived, and the less important stuff will slide down, waiting to be opened at your leisure. As you may have guessed by reading this, this is useful to those people who receive scores of emails per day, and spend a lot of time reading and replying to emails. I receive around 10 emails per day and so priority inbox is not going to be very useful for me; but for those of you who receive 20,30 or even 50 emails per day, perhaps you would find this new feature of GMail to be very useful. So if you haven't given it a try, do so and leave your feedback here :)