A Quick Look at the New GMail

Last week, Google released an update to GMail. It’s been getting a lot of digital ink in the tech world, including pieces at ZDNet, Slashgear, and PCWorld — and that’s definitely an illustrative rather than and exhaustive list, as a quick search will show.

The update has all kinds of useful features. The image above shows the integration with Google Calendar. Users can also choose to show Google Keep or Google Tasks in the sidebar, and can switch among them (or hide the sidebar entirely) with j...