Remember the Milk releases a Gmail to-do list! Sweet!
I’m a pretty happy chappie today. Despite feeling like my head is going to fall off because of the flu, I am nevertheless a well organised sick person thanks to a spiffy Firefox extension released by Remember the Milk (hereafter referred to as RTM - because I am lazy).
In fact it’s so great I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t December 25th already! Everyone is going nuts about it.
I’m sure, if you’re reading a blog like this, that you all know what RTM is (you internet-savvy daredevil that you are). But if you were looking for therapy, accidently stumbled upon this blog and desperately looking for the exit, I’ll just briefly explain that RTM is a web-based reminder / to do service. I set up an account at the very beginning but I have never really used it because a) I am more of a sticky notes kind of guy for writing reminders and b) I need to have something staring me in the face all day long for me to use it. The phrase “out of sight, out of mind” really does apply to me.
So since I normally have Gmail open all day and I work in front of a computer, I was really waiting for Gmail to introduce their own to-do feature. The sticky notes thing wasn’t really working out anymore as I was drowning in them. But I was mystified as to why Google was dragging their feet bringing out a feature like this. Isn’t a to-do list a natural extension of an email service, a calendar and a online word processing suite? Some were speculating that Google wasn’t doing it because they had probably decided just to go the easy (and usual) route and buy someone out. Maybe even RTM. Maybe RTM made this Gmail extension as if to say “want to buy us Google? Come and get us!”.
Anyway, whatever the reasons for RTM making this extension, it is still a really great extension and if you use both Gmail and Firefox then this is a “must-have” extension. I always avoid writing “must-have Firefox extensions” blog posts as the internet is full of these kinds of crappy posts but I have to make an exception in this case. Get this one.
One of the things I really like about the extension is that if you give a specific label to an email (such as “to-do” then the email is automatically added to your RTM to-do list. When you un-label the email, it disappears from your RTM list.
The actual list itself sits to the right of the screen. So your inbox gets pushed to the left a bit like three people squeezing into the back seat of a car (with the poor inbox being the crushed pig in the middle!) . If you then go to your Gmail settings, there is now a sub-tab where you can configure your RTM extension to get it the way you want it.
All we need now is for Lifehacker to update their Better Gmail extension to get the RSS reading list underneath the inbox and I’ll have my Gmail nerve center back!
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