- “Important mainly because of the words in the message.”
- “Important mainly because of the people in the conversation.”
- “Important mainly because of your interaction with messages in the
conversation.”
- “Important mainly because it was sent directly to you.”
- “Important because you marked it as important.”
- When Gmail annotates e-mail by algorithm, the phrasing it uses is sometimes poetic, if not always accurate.
- It is useful, I suppose, at times, to have an unknown entity define or remind me of
my “priorities.”