Gmail’s Shiny New Tasks (To-Do) List
by AJ on December 8, 2008
At last, Google’s Gmail released a new lab feature today – Tasks. This cool feature directly competes with favorite to-do list services such as Remember The Milk (RTM) and Tada-List. Here’s a quick screenshot of the new feature below:
By the way, I love how unobtrusive it is and how it integrates well with your email. I’m definitely going to start using this over Tada-list which have been my list manager for a long time now. The only advantages (that I know) of tada-list right now are 1) It is stand-alone. No need to login/load your email. 2) It is easily shareable and 3) It is lightweight and it has a better/intuitive interface.
Meanwhile, Remember the Milk has been pushing cool features here and there. Thing is, I’ve never been accustomed to using it everyday, unlike Tada-list. But I’m sure a lot of people use it everyday.
To enable Gmail’s “Tasks”, go to Settings, click the Labs tab. Select “Enable” next to “Tasks” and then click “Save Changes” at the bottom. Then, after Gmail refreshes, on the left under the “Contacts” link, you’ll see a “Tasks” link.
A quick shortcut to your “Tasks” list is G+K (assuming you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) when you are logged in to Gmail.
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Was not aware the Gmail has one. Will def check it out. I don’t use tadalist since it is so so simple. I use http://www.anyinput.com for mine. But anyinput application has too much setup and may be too complex for many.
by Chris on January 26, 2009 at 9:49 PM. #