I’ve put this off for so long!
I was thinking, nah. I don’t need yet another productivity tool. I’m happy with my setup as it is. Why would I install a Firefox extension? I keep my inbox mostly empty anyway. Erm… erm…
Well, truth is, I needed it. Bad. And as times get busier, I need it (and use it) more.
What’s GTDInbox, you ask? A simple Firefox extension, NOT. It’s an over-bloated piece of productivity pr0n that will transform your GMail inbox from an arid desert to a place David Allen would call home.
I don’t use all of its numerous features. But these things made me install it at home and at work:
- The ability to easily compose a personal e-mail, as a means to add a task / reminder for yourself, right there in your inbox. I used to do that all the time, but I don’t anymore because I use less mundane stuff to take care of my todos and reminders. But still, it’s great functionality.
- One-click mark as finished / archive of an e-mail. Enough said. I used to click, select relevant label from labels menu, then press ‘Archive’. Hardly a fun way to get done with tasks e-mails.
- The ability to pre-label e-mails, before sending them. So useful.
- When you mark e-mails as pending or as action, they don’t have to be marked as unread to have their count shown next to their status label. Essential.
- It made me transform my GMail inbox from an empty, normal inbox to what it needs to be nowadays: a work dashboard. It helps my keep my inbox to zero (not a difficult task, I assure you) and it keeps me from forgetting stuff and adding everywhere those ambiguous stars.
So GTDInbox it is. Even if I don’t use like, 70% of its features.