Manage Email with Gmail Task Lists

A couple of days ago, via Twitter, I learned that Gmail had introduced a new featured called Tasks.

Essentially this is a task list that floats at the bottom of your screen and is integrated with Gmail.  I use Gmail exclusively for my email management and love the filtering, labels, themes, and other features.

Loving to experiment, I immediately enabled Tasks. Click on Settings (at the top right of your Gmail home page) and then click on Labs. Select "Enable" then scroll down and save your changes.  You can have the list visible or minimize it.

What's cool is that you can add an email to your Task list. I don't know about you, but most of my action items are generated by email! You can also add non-email related action items.

If you enable Keyboard shortcuts (under Settings), then all you have to do is hit Shift T to quickly add an email to your task list. Sweet!

I'm also using the Task list to quickly add ideas for blog posts. I think of stuff to write about all day long but if I don't write my ideas down, they're gone. Now I have a running list of ideas. Whether they get written and posted is another story...

If you use Gmail, I highly recommend checking out Tasks and then let me know what you think.

Comments

[Brad Trnavsky]

WOW!!! That is one of the coolest features I have seen added yet! I shut off outlook for Google Apps a few months ago and this was the ONLY feature I missed!

[BusbyTest]

this feature is great.Thanks to google.

[neil(mmonline)prime]

Thank you for the great information about Gmail. I have tried it and its working fine. It was difficult at first but then I got the hang of it.
I wonder, does anyone know about GreaseMonkey??

[Denise Wakeman]

Looks like Gmail task function is a hit. I've been seeing a few comments on Twitter as well about how useful people are finding this new feature.