Star, mark as read, select in bulk, and delete — what you can do to a conversation, and what you can't (there's no archive).
Once you can find a conversation, the next question is what to actually do with it. The Inbox keeps this short and deliberate: star it, read it, or remove it — no clutter of folders to file things into.
Click the star icon on any row — in Inbox, Sent, or Draft — to pin it into the Starred folder. Click again to remove it. Both conversations and drafts can be starred.
No separate click needed — opening a conversation clears its unread state instantly, both in the list and in the count next to Inbox in the top navigation.
The refresh button in the top-right re-fetches conversations, senders, and drafts in one go — handy right after a new reply comes in.
Every row has a checkbox — check the ones you want, or use the header checkbox to select everything currently in view.
As soon as one row is checked, the folder header swaps to show your selection count and two actions: Mark as read and Delete.
Clears the unread state on every checked conversation in one click — drafts are skipped since they don't have an unread state.
Asks you to confirm, then permanently removes the selected conversation(s) and every message in them. This can't be undone, so it's a genuine delete, not a soft archive.
Unlike Gmail, the Inbox has no Archive button and no "move to folder" action. Your two real options for clearing something out of view are: mark it read (it stays exactly where it is, just no longer flagged) or delete it outright. If you just want a conversation out of your unread count without losing the history, marking as read is the one you want.