It is time for a little catch up on GTDInbox’s product development and how it’s being scheduled.

The top priority right now is to reduce the complexity in how GTDInbox is distributed. We have Mozilla serving a rapidly aging 2.x product, 3.0 is being pushed only on the blog, the main website is out of date, the new website is not yet right; and the forum is frankly a free for all :)

Before we can fully make 2.x obsolete, we have to get 3.0 ready for the mainstream - which means hitting Beta. That includes adding Preferences in, bringing back 80% of the features 2.x had, and adding in sufficient help that a beginner can get started.

Once that is launched, it will be trivial to update the website. So, we will have one product, one website, a new kind of forum (the old forum will remain, but will not be actively promoted) and a far easier time releasing new features!

I hope we’ll be at this point sometime next week.

After that, the next product goals are roughly:

* Improve the UI and Workflow (mainly improving interaction and reducing space usage)

* Add additional ways to filter and order threads

* Add Pre-Compose labels back in

* Add a ‘Related’ button

That should take us through to sometime in July!

6 Responses to “Our Plans for Next Few Versions”

  1. David Sarnowski Says:

    Andy,

    All your work and the work of the others involved is fantastic! I love what you have done and continue to do.

    Thanks so much!

    Dave

     
  2. Leo Soto M. Says:

    Kudos to the team. You are doing an excellent work and it shows up on each new release. I look forward for the betas.

     
  3. Terry Britton Says:

    Every time GTDInbox breaks with a new update of Firefox 3.5 my heart breaks also! Another challenge - can GTDInbox ever be integrated into the GoogleGears driven “Offline Gmail” (that will become the rage very soon, I am certain). I want that for my laptop, but adding it recently competely destroyed GTDInbox.

    Anyway, the main point of my writing is to say thank you a thousand times!

    Terry

     
  4. Andy Says:

    Thanks guys :)

    And Terry - offline is on the cards, but as for when, I’m not sure. It’s going to require some careful work!

     
  5. Nathan Sudds Says:

    I agree with everyone above — a thousand times thank you for all you guys have been doing to make GTDinbox and improve it — and I’m eagerly awaiting some of the features from the previous versions, I never realized how much I used the “reply to self” feature.

     
  6. Bhav Says:

    Oh MAN ! This morning Gmail automatically moved my labels to the left, so now they are not in the GTD format, I can’t see how many emails I have in my next action, it is totally CRAP, what can I do ?????????????/

     

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