Gmail Puts Tasks in Your Inbox – Finally a Functional To Do Solution
I don’t know how important this news is really to a lot of people, but personally this can be a godsend and so this post goes out to the few people who want better control over their to do lists. So what’s the dope? GMail has taken a lab product and made it better and more accessible for all users with the new Tasks feature.
From today whenever we log on to our Gmail we will see a small feature lying in between Labels and Chat Box. Welcome Tasks to your inbox.
According to Google, one doesn’t need to turn it on through labs anymore and can be accessed straightaway. And they haven’t spared a lot of features while doing this, this is what the Gmail blog had to say,
We’ve been continually improving Tasks since it first launched in Labs. We believe simple and fast is best, so we’ve been working to make Tasks more responsive and get basic interactions working better: we’ve added mobile and gadget views, made improvements to task editing and management, launched in more languages, and integrated with Google Calendar. We’ve also added a printable view for those people compelled to do things away from their computers or mobile devices.
Personally, mobile and gadget views, and Calender integration to go with the email integration when Tasks were first introduced in labs last year are the most killer features. Check the video Google has put up to know more about tasks.
I have been using two tools till now to manage my daily task list, one is an amazing productivity oriented app called TaskFive (it’s not a tool it’s a philosophy) and the other is the To Do widget in Opera. I have been creating primary tasks and then breaking it into smaller ones and then dividing them between these two tools. Obviously the fact that I can’t attach a reminder or a calender function to add to the lack of syncing with email was a major pain. Hopefully this change in my inbox will be a welcome change.
On initial thoughts it doesn’t seem very different from the Opera widget in its usage. However, being a Google product means it is a little more intuitive than the latter. The only problem here might be that I’ll need to keep my inbox open a lot more. A very good tool for young techies and small startups to manage their tasks and work better.
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I want to remove it. It is a garbage there. What is the relationship between mails and tasks! Pure garbage.
From today? Huh? I’ve had this for almost 4 months now!!
@Karthik
I have said in the post that it was launched in labs in December.. what’s your point?