Users of the popular webmail application Gmail be aware: a visual and practical overhaul is on the way to your inbox.

According to CNET, Google revealed a colorful, re-designed version of their email program on Wednesday, including a new automatic labeling system, a more visually-stimulating interface, and changes to the Gmail iOS and Android apps.

The big change is the labeling system, which takes a cue from the company’s social media network, Google Plus. Based around different friend connections called “Circles,” Google Plus was praised early on for the way it allowed users to divide different contacts and acquaintances into different categories. The new Gmail is similar, with default sections that include Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. These labels will soon appear as sizable tabs above or alongside the Gmail inbox. Users will then be able to customize their email experience between the categories, dragging and dropping different messages to different tabs, and thus teaching Gmail how to automatically organize their email.

Of course, the customizable approach goes both ways. Someone who is happy with the current, no-frills Gmail layout can choose to remove the tabs altogether and go about with the program as they always have. Similarly, the updated cellphone apps will allow users to easily switch to “classic view.”

But Google has high hopes for the new Gmail, and believes the re-imagined interface will help a lot of their users in remaining organized and productive, whether they have a bad habit of reading personal email on the job or a tendency to sort through social notifications during a scheduled study time.

“We get a lot of different types of email: messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations and receipts, and more,” Itamar Gilad, one of Google’s product managers, wrote in the Official Gmail Blog. “All of these emails can compete for our attention and make it harder to focus on the things we need to get done. Sometimes it feels like our inboxes are controlling us, rather than the other way around. But it doesn’t have to be that way.”

The revamped version of Gmail should be hitting the web in the next few weeks, while the apps for both Android and iOS are finishing development and waiting for final approval. However, users who want to act as beta testers for the desktop version will be able to try it out soon. Google instructs interested parties to “keep an eye on the gear menu and select Configure Inbox when it appears in the Settings options.”