Earlier today, I realized that my gmail doesn't automatically separate my important emails from the many newsletters and automatically generated updates that I want to receive but not care about as much as the messages I get from friends, colleagues and family. It does a great job of filtering out spam (haven't seen a spam-mail in my inbox for years), so the filter is obviously smart, but I got frustrated with the limited possibilities of setting up your own filters.

Skip to half an hour ago when I got word of Mozilla Labs newest project, Raindrop, aimed at this very problem: automatically treating various types of email differently to better correspond to the way I wan't to read them. (See the demo below.)
This is the first time in ages that I am considering using a different app to read emails.

Read more at
Mozilla Labs - Introducing Raindrop
Mashable - Mozilla Raindrop: is the intelligent inbox coming?
IDG - Här är Mozillas svar på Google wave