Tumblr 101: Tips And Tricks To Get Started
Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car
Gmail gets a task list
Google has a an online calendar, email service, and even an office suite. But for some reason, the company hasn't offered a to do list application to round out its suite of Microsoft Outlook-like services -- until now. If you check out the Labs section of your Gmail preferences today you may notice a new option called Tasks. Once you enable this feature, you'll be able to add any email message to your task list either by selecting "Add to Tasks" under the More Actions menu or by hitting Shift+T if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled.
Once the to do list is open, you can also add tasks using keyboard shortcuts or by hitting the plus button. Or you can mark off completed items, rearrange your list, or perform all sorts of other functions.
You can also bring up the to do list by hitting the Tasks link that shows up below Contacts in Gmail's left hand navigation.
If you're looking for a way to add a task list to Gmail that's always visible from the sidebar, you can also add a widget from third party task manager Remember the Milk.
[via TechCrunch]
Comments
8
Subscribe to commentsbholubDec 14th 2008 9:16PM
I still like their Remember the Milk for Gmail Firefox extension better: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/
benDec 9th 2008 7:56AM
its available in hibernater with the task list
Jash SayaniDec 9th 2008 7:56AM
This is amazing !!
Just what I was waiting for !
larsDec 9th 2008 8:18AM
Hmm. Next should be patching lightning/google calendar provider to use this, so we can have our tasks in thunderbird!
Ben CarlsonDec 9th 2008 9:07AM
Yeah, don't think this will be replacing my RtM sidebar.
PeterDec 9th 2008 5:45PM
Agreed. The RTM (god, I hate that name) extension is the best task manager I've come across.
TSheetsDec 9th 2008 9:14AM
It's been a long time coming, but this really does look like yet another advancement in the GTD philosphy. If Google/Gmail keep this up - I might be able to abandon iCal and an email client altogether.
paul rasmussenJan 20th 2009 6:52AM
The inclusionn of tasks in gmail has gone a long way to making gmails more useful, but until google comes up with a way of linking gmail, tasks and the calendar it will not become a true competitor for microsoft outlook in terms of time and workload management. I have written a number of articles on this subject on my blog.
http://pauldrasmussen.blogspot.com