There are certainly plenty of alternatives for living the Getting Things Done lifestyle out there, from dedicated web sites to client-side applications to add-ins for your email program. But how about a GTD application that leverages web sites that you’re already using? That’s the premise of GTDInbox, a Firefox add-on that implements GTD in your GMail account.
After installing GTDInbox, you’ll see nothing different about your Firefox – until you visit the GMail site. Then you’ll get a GTD Dashboard pane above your regular Inbox area (as well as some other modifications, such as an area to easily work with the labels on the current message). GTDInbox works by leveraging GMail’s own label and search capabilities, mixing in some new UI and some conventions to make it all work together.
Sorting your messages into projects and contexts is as simple as adding labels starting with “P/” and “C/” (which also work nicely with the way that GMail’s IMAP interface sets up subfolders). As you build these up, GTDInbox will track them in your dashboard area, giving you one-click access to all the mails related to a project or a context as a fast search result.
Want to use GTDInbox as a task manager? Just send yourself an email tagged with S/Action and go from there. There are other status labels to cover things like “Next Action” and “Waiting On” – again, all contributing to the central GTD tenet of seeing only the information you need right now.
GTDInbox is fast, free, and unobtrusive when you don’t feel like using it. The integration is slick enough that it’s hard to tell where GMail ends and the add-on begins. If your workflow revolves around your email, and you’re a GMail user, this could take your ability to focus up a notch.
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