I’ve just had a spark of an idea I want to mention. GTDInbox will always be a niche product - a Firefox addon that only works with Gmail - but to speak of it like that misses a bigger idea. GTDInbox is small, light and independant; and so it has the power to innovate in a way that a mainstream app cannot. It’s that innovation I want to really focus on in creating and debating GTDInbox. And later, if any onlookers think they can take some of the better concepts and make them work in other mail apps (like Outlook) - or if the ideas were adopted by mainstream applications (like Gmail itself) - that would be a truly fantastic outcome to all our endeavours.
There’s no real point to this post, other than a desire to convey the thought that we - our little community here - should almost consider it a duty to be creative with how we grow GTDInbox.
I’ll follow up in a few days with some new posts that try once again to get to the bottom of the problem with email, so that we can sharpen our collective mindset on how to fix it - all input will be very welcome!
andymurd Says:
March 29th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I grabbed the ‘GTDInbox’ Twitter username the other day. I had planned to make something like TwitterCal that would forward tweets the sender’s registered email address.
Current work commitments make it unlikely to happen very soon, so if you (or the community) want to make use of the username, send me an email or PM on the Productive Firefox forum and I’ll hand it over.
Is this the kind of creative use of GTDInbox that you want to see?
Jack Rahaim Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I think GTDInbox is a huge addition to Gmail and makes using it a significantly different experience. Here are a couple of suggestions; one of them is not too far afield from the current product and the other is a bit of a departure in that it adds another ‘lens’ to looking at Gmail emails.
Suggestion 1: add a ’send later’ capability with defined date and time for a composed message to be ‘released’. In order for it to be really useful, the message should sit on Gmail and not be dependent upon the user being on line at the time that’s been set to send the message.
Suggestion 2: provide a view of projects that is chronological and sortable either by date of the email or by a user-defined date (perhaps the due date for the project)…I’m imagining something graphical with the subject line being shown and with the ability to drill down on any item to the messages/threads.
Keep up the great work,
Jack