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.
