The new GTDInbox is ready! Alas, no significant new features; but plenty of useful tweaks and a little more control over things.
Stability Updates
Preview should now work solidly on every email. This has never been possible before; but I tried a new technique and it is much more fool proof than the earlier methods.
We’ve got much better at bulk actions (using the More Actions dropdown). Again, there’s a new technique at work here; and it makes it much faster/more-robust at changing the Status on lots of messages at once.
The Modify Reviews screen is fully working again, including the ability to move things up & down (Thanks to André Branco).
Clicking Finished now removes all Status labels (that bug was introduced by a performance enchancement in 2.0.9.1, that now works correctly!).
The button shifting problem (noted in the forum), where the ‘Finished’ button got in the way, has been remedied by making it load faster.
Functional Improvements
I hope you’ll like this one! The Options have been improved to give you a lot more control of the UI. You can now choose which parts of GTDInbox you want to use (and hide the rest); as well as changing the label selectors from drop downs to inline (a lot of people have requested this at various times).
This sets us up nicely for the future by allowing more features to be added without overloading everyone’s screen.
A special thank you goes to Tim Lindsey, who probably holds the record for the largest number of consecutive, substantial donations (huge thanks Tim!); as well as being trusting enough to give me his personal account password in order to try and thwart the ‘Failed to Load’ problem. (On that note, I still don’t know what is causing it; it’s very strange; but the fix is in the last blog post).
Where next? There may be a 2.0.9.3 release (it really depends on the status of the Pro account), but I’ve now got everything I wanted out of the way to usher in 2.1. All the news and announcements will come through this blog!
mjjin Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
Andy, It’s working for me again,
Great Job, Thanks!
ChuckM Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 am
“Functional Improvements
I hope you’ll like this one! The Options have been improved to give you a lot more control of the UI. You can now choose which parts of GTDInbox you want to use (and hide the rest); as well as changing the label selectors from drop downs to inline (a lot of people have requested this at various times).”
I’m not seeing this in Options; in fact, my options screen seems not to have changed from prior, with nothing under the “Advanced” section … I’m I missing something? (I may be, as I’m a /very/ new user, so be gentle .) Thx.
Great FF add-on!
Andy Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 am
Apologies Chuck, I should make it clear - > it’s now tabbed. So in the top right, you’ll see “General” and “UI”. Click “UI”.
ChuckM Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Ohhhhhh-kay.
I see that now (it wasn’t at all apparent while running the Redesigned skin(s), and is a bit more so when I turn them off … of course, now I know!). Thanks.
Peyton Stafford Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hi Andy,
Big thanks to you. I am new to GTD and actually found the book through your site, which I found through Firefox add-ons after seeing a mention in a RTM discussion.
I’ve been using GTD Inbox for a few weeks, and this is the first time in years I am spending more time getting things done than getting organized.
All the best,
Peyton
David Andrew Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
Great improvements.
I have just set up a blog to record my achievements at work - partly to link to lipity to create a time line of completed tasks. It would be really handy to set up a filter (or something) to send a copy to emails to that blog when I label an item as finished - is there a way to do that?
David Andrew Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Sorry that should have been dipity not lipity!
Joseph Steig Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Any chance of GTDInbox for Google Chrome? I know that you just finished a release . . . and I love it . . . but . . . seems like Google Chrome support would be good. Say “yes” and I’ll increase my $ support (unfortunately relatively minimal though it is)
Corey Says:
November 23rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I second the Chrome request. And I’d pay for it too!