Ok, I was lucky (which meant Sarah was good enough to grant me time off for good behaviour) to sneak some extra hours into GTDInbox, to compensate for the time lost to handling clients. And I’m even more pleased to say, this is a pretty big update.
Most significantly, the contentious Dashboard has been removed. Many of you said it took too much space; so I replaced it with a drop down menu instead (props to Paul Thompson/captbunzo for further refining the UI design). Next, I made Reviews (aka saved searches) fully customisable - and even use some special sauce not normally available in Gmail (such as relative time to the current date) - so you can create your own. Finally - and perhaps most significantly for many of you - we finally patched up problems with other addons (and added some advanced options to make sure that you have greater control over GTDInbox’s behaviour in future).
Oh, and the single coolest addition? You can double click stuff! So, when processing your inbox, you can double click the GTD icon (on each row) to Finish it and double right click to Delete it (or shift + double left click to Delete it).
And when you toggle labels using GTDInbox (e.g. add S/Action to a thread), if you double click rather than single click, it’ll toggle the label and then auto-archive it. So you add project/context/reference labels, then double click on S/Action to apply the status and move it out your inbox.
You can download from http://gtdinbox.com/#install or download direct from (http://gtdinbox.com/gtdinbox_2-0-8-1.xpi).
(Additional props go to Máté Rémiás who was very helpful in pre-release testing and pinpointing problems with other addons - cheers Máté!).
Update #1 01/05/2008
Hold on to your horses! It looks like there is a small glitch here where the default Reviews are not added (+ Betty is having some Label display problems I’m investigating). 2.0.8.1 will roll shortly…
Update #2 01/05/2008
Okay, 2.0.8.1 is ready. Sorry to those of you who just downloaded 2.0.8, I only noticed the glitch when Betty emailed!
K Says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Sadly, I’ve not been able to get my GTDInbox to work comepletely with the last few updates and I’ve been getting a “GTDInbox2 isn’t loading, refresh or go to the FAQ”. Nothing worked. So I’m giving up and going back to the old version and using Gmail1 not 2, since that at least still works correctly and doesn’t cause the computer to hang forever. I look forward to the next incarnation. Maybe it’ll work for me then.
Glenn Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I like the Dashboard–will miss it. (Pity you can’t have it as an option: either the Dashboard for those who like it or the drop-down for those who don’t like the Dashboard.) I absolutely hate long drop-down lists that you have to scroll through (which I already have with Gmail).
Andy Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Glenn,
Keep me posted on whether you can get used to the new dropdown. I find it far superior, but if it continues to irritate you then I’ll see if it can be turned into an option (the code still remains for the old Dashboard).
Jonathan Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Andy,
I believe Google have just made a change as my GTD status bar has disappeared! I am using GTDInbox 2.0.8.1 on Firefox 2.0.0.14.
Any chance you can have a look what is wrong?
Thanks
Andy Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hi Jonathan,
Do you mean the GTD Dashboard (that was below search), because that was intentionally removed! It now exists as a much more slimline dropdown menu (next to More Actions).
Andy
Jonathan Says:
May 7th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Andy,
Cheers,
Jonathan
Evg Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Great work, Andy! Thank you.