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Gmail tasks

Today Google announced the addition of tasks to Gmail labs.

They recently added a ”Add any gadget by URL” feature, and I was using the Remember The Milk gadget with that to add todo functionality to Gmail.

As Gmail tasks are brand new they’re not as comprehensive as Remember The Milk – there’s no way to set a task’s priority, they’re not sorted by due date and there is no use of color to visually deliniate tasks.

That having been said, it is better integrated into Gmail because it isn’t a gadget, and I will be using it for a while to give it a chance.

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I think GMail has a big piece of missing functionality – todo’s.  Most of the emails in my inbox are things I’ve left there to remind myself to do something.

I signed up for Remember The Milk quite a while ago when they released a Firefox extension that integrated RTM with GMail.  I didn’t end up using it for very long because I didn’t like the way the integration slowed GMail down.

RTM just released a new GMail gadget that works with the recently released GMail labs “Add any gadget by URL” feature.  This integration works a lot better than the Firefox extension but it still has its issues.

I’d prefer to be able to shrink the box vertically because it takes up a lot of space if you only have a few todo’s.  Also it doesn’t wrap the text in the todo’s, which because of the limited horizontal space means that you can only read the first few words.  There also isn’t any integration between emails and todo’s like there was with the Firefox extension.

All problems aside, I think I’ll keep using the Remember The Milk gadget – it beats sending myself emails to remind myself to do things.

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