Two days ago, the Gmail team launched a new Labs feature. But, I read about it only today, on my Reader. Its the "Tasks".
With all the keyboard shortcuts and the "sexy" AJAX interface, Gmail was really the #1 webmail that increases your productivity and saves time. Now, with this new Tasks feature, your can further increase your productivity.
My first impressions on this :
- Its really simple to use
- Doesn’t compromise for the features either. Supports multiple lists.
- Saves time, as usual, with its keyboard shortcuts.
I’ve been using the popular Remember The Milk for my tasks, so far. Apart from that, I also have Stickies on my desktop. So, is it time to dump these ? Well not really. Actually, the Gmail inbox is one window that I have open all the time. So, it is very useful to have my tasks in there rather than a separate website. But, there is something I want to see here. I want to be able to fix my tasks in my sidebar so that they are always visible to me. Thats the real motivation. If I have to click a link to view my tasks, that spoils the purpose of having it.
Now, that being said, I won’t stop using RTM any time soon. However, I’ll stop writing tasks on the Stickes. They will be moved to Gmail Tasks.
So, what about you ? Have you tried Gmail Tasks ? Will it replace your present Tasks manager ? Share your views in the comments.
Seems like a little helpful tool. I have always been a big fan of Google apps and this just makes it better. In fact I found this blog through Google Reader.
Yeah, I use Google Apps (Mail) for almost every domain name that i own.
:) Whenever i find blogs through my Google Reader, i wonder whether anyone finds my blog through it too.. So, it happens :)
I just started using gmail tasks and it is going to replace what I am using
@Brian, Oh.. Thats Great.. Cheers to Google.. :)
I recently started to used gmail as well, found it very user friendly, its going to replace what i am currently using for sure.
Hari,
I most recently had discovered google calendar, and I thought that was pretty nifty. I never realised there were so many options. It’s like microsoft office for free! Anyway, going to go check out tasks…But to your point, it defeats the purpose if you need to click through…knowing those google people, they’ll figure out how to get it to stand alone! Shaw
Hello,
I guess I didn’t notice this new feature. I will have to check it out. Thanks for explaining how it works to all of us.
Angela
@shaw, Most of Google’s applications are like that.. At first, they seem to be something very simple.. But, as you start using you’ll notice how feature-rich they are…
G mail seems to be getting better and better. I remember when it was exclusive, though! Wasn’t that funny? And we knew that wouldn’t last. Did you see where yahoo mail has added ymail.com to its email system?
ymail.com ? I think they didn’t need it. Yahoo.com was very rememberable..
Yes, that is for real, ymail.com Next thing you know we will be seeing every letter of the alphabet being used, such as amail.com and bmail.com etc etc etc!
They’ll surely be used. But how many will be successful is the question..
How about memail.com or mymail.com? Those could prove to be very popular, don’t you think? Especially with all the people buying up the dot me domains now, they would want this.
I don’t know how this is possible, but I’m using Gmail every day and I never heard about this until I read it in this post. I’m going to check it right away, because I’m currently using… well something else… and I’m not really happy.
Thanks for the info.
Well, I have to say I don’t find any of these products useful, I don’t use memos in my phone, my computer or my laptop, I think sticks have unique power to let you do what you have to do, like an order, but write down things in computers? you won’t take them seriously.
Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…
Nice tip! Never used gmail tasks before, but I will look into it now.
Gmail is fabulous. I really like Gmail. With all the Ajax interface and added features it stands out in the crowd. Most of my emails comes to my Yahoo account because this is the one I had for a long time. Now I am using more and more Gmail. To move from old email to the new email takes time.
It’s a good feature, but I wish it was a sync option. I.e. it could be synced with many of the new Windows phones, PDA’s, other software and so on.
Seems like an useful tool. Hope it’s as easy as you describe it.
What a useful feature. I bet it’s going to help save me at least a few hours a month.
Google is way up in the Innovation list.