Do you get thousands of e-mails – some from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important? It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Well, now there is a solution to get rid of all the clutter – Google has introduced Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.

Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules. Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”: As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email a person X a lot, a message from X is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over).

And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the or buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)

Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, all you need to do is click on  “New! Priority Inbox” link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.