The tabs do give you a convenient way to automatically sort your inbox according to Gmail's preset categories and get notifications at a glance for when new emails come in.

How to Add Tasks Gadgets to Gmail. Accessing the Tasks section of your Gmail account takes a few mouse clicks. If you want to see your tasks all the time in the left sidebar of Gmail, you need to ...

Looking to bring a little order to Gmail users’ inboxes, Google today unveiled a new customizable tabs feature that automatically sorts message among five buckets: primary, social, promotions ...

Gmail added the tabbed inbox in 2013, and it hasn't adapted to the modern internet. Google needs to add more customization.

Toward the bottom of the Advanced settings, you’ll see the option for “Unread message icon.” Enable that to have your unread number appear on the tab header for Gmail going forward.

The first step to repurposing Gmail’s inbox tabs is to think about which of the existing tabs you actually use—and which would be good candidates for repurposing.