gmailgmail-categories
Gmail presents its category tabs in the order Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums.
I'd like to move Promotions to the end and move up Updates to the second position for my work e-mail, since that is where all automatic reports go, all notifications about new tickets, and so on.
Can I reorder the tabs?
A listing of other users expressing (various degrees of) outrage over the same topic can be found here. As before, the accepted solution doesn't work.
However, one person found a temporary solution using Adblock Plus (here, first message on Jun 26 (of 2013, I assume)):
It's not a problem to do this at all: go to ABP filter preferences, then select "Custom Filters" tab, then "Element Hiding Rules", then click "Add Filter". Now add following eight filters:
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Social"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Promotions"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Updates"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Forums"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Social"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Promotions"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Updates"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Forums"]
This seems to work for me. It's really regrettable, since the data is still there, the problem is still there, and this is really just a workaround that may break if Google changes the website's underlying code.
Still, in light of the fact that the "correct" solution to the problem doesn't seem to fix anything, there's not much else I can do. This temporary solution is permanent for me, unless Google can fix the underlying problem.
I was able to find the solution after I enabled this myself while attempting to post a comment solution.
The tab interface can be enabled accidently by Configure Inbox:
Best Answer
I'm afraid not. (At least, not at this time.) All you can do with the categories (beyond "Primary") is turn them on or off.
An option for you is to create a custom label for your work email and have those messages drop into "Primary". Easy enough to do with a filter.