Gmail Now Supports Managing Tasks
Google Blogoscoped — ... When Gmail reloads you will find a new link titled Tasks at the left hand side below the Contacts link. Click it, and a todo box opens in Gmail. You can now just click an empty area within it and start typing. For any given mail you receive, you can also pick “Add to Tasks” from the “More Actions” menu. Another way to add a todo list to Gmail is to use Remember the Milk’s gadget. [Via Keith at Friendfeed -> the official Gmail blog. Screenshot edited.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail Now ...

Gmail gets a task list
Download Squad — Filed under: E-mail, Web services, Google, web 2.0, WebGoogle has a an online calendar, email service, and even an office suite. But for some reason, the company hasn't offered a to do list application to round out its suite of Microsoft Outlook-like services -- until now. If you check out the Labs section of your Gmail preferences today you may notice a new option called Tasks. Once you enable this feature, you'll be able to add any email message to your task list either by selecting "Add to Tasks" ...

Google's Gmail Gets To-Do List
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... , Dec 8, 2008 08:04 PM [image] Just in time to help you with your holiday shopping, Google on Monday said that it had added a lightweight to-do list called Tasks to Gmail. Google engineers Jonathan Terleski, Michael Lancaster, and Brett Lider have published a blog post with the details: To enable Tasks, go to Settings, click the Labs tab (or just click here if you're signed in). Select "Enable" next to "Tasks" and then click "Save Changes" at the bottom. Then, after Gmail refreshes, on the left under the "Contacts" link, you'll see a "Tasks" link. Just click it to get ...

Forget the milk: Gmail gets its own task list
VentureBeat — ... (its testing ground) called “Tasks” allows you to easily set up a to-do list within Gmail. This has been a feature that Gmail has needed for a long time, but the integration is a bit clunky and the timing is a bit odd. ...

Gmail Gets New Tasks Feature
WebProNews Feed — ... Still in Labs of Course Google has introduced a new feature in Gmail Labs. The "Tasks" feature provides a window in Gmail similar to that of chat, and lets you add tasks by simply clicking in the empty area and start typing. ...

Google adds to-do list to Gmail
Webware.com — ... Google has added a to-do list to its Gmail to help its users get things done, the company announced Monday in a company blog. When the new Tasks feature is enabled, a box is placed on top of Gmail in which users can add, reorder, and delete tasks. You can assign a due date to each task and even convert e-mails into tasks. The feature will also run outside of the e-mail program. Adding items is as simple as clicking on a vacant part of the box and typing. It may sound like a rehash of the many Post-It Note-like programs that were popular in the mid-'90s, but ...

Why it doesn’t pay to play nice with Google
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... where he quite rightly pointed out how easy it was to switch from RTM in GMail over to the new Google Tasks that got launched today that I realized that playing nice with Google might not pay off. ...

Google Adds Task Manager to Gmail
Google Watch — One of the knocks on Google Apps has been an utter lack of a tool to let users manage tasks or projects. Scratch the former complaint from your list. Google's Gmail team moved to plug this hole with a new task manager that lets users keep track of their agenda. Check out this task management list example here, then begin creating your own tasks by activating the feature in Gmail Labs. Go to Settings atop your inbox, click the Labs tab and you'll see the new feature option at the top. Select enable and click Save Changes at the bottom. You should ...

Gmail Shows Signs of Becoming Your All-in-one Productivity Tool
Profy — ... Today Gmail team has announced addition of yet another feature in Gmail Labs: it’s called Tasks and is intended to do exactly what the name suggests - manage your tasks as your To-Do list integrated right into your email. ...

Gmail Plays Taskmaster
Technologizer — ... , are enough to make you wonder whether that Google policy of letting engineers devote 20 percent of their time to personal projects is such a good idea after all. Not so, I’m happy to report with tonight’s new feature. Gmail now offers Tasks –aka a to-do list–and they’re such an obvious feature for the service’s bag of tricks that I was momentarily surprised when it dawned on me that it didn’t already do them. Gmail Tasks doesn’t have nearly as many tools and tricks as a dedicated task manager such as the splendid ...

Gmail Adds a Task Manager Feature, Sort of
(Obsolete Feed) — ... For those who have been keeping an eye on Google Labs for cool features under beta testing by Google, you must have noticed a new entry into the list of beta features of Gmail simply called Tasks. This new feature as you may have guess immediately would allow Gmail users to keep track of what they need to do. In short, this is a Task Manager or To-Do Manager, or GTD, in what Google calls as a lightweight version. ...

Gmail Adds Todo List With Added Cleverness
Cult of Mac — ... Some people are frantically asking “WHY GOOGLE, WHY?” but to me it makes perfect sense. Gmail now has a simple task manager and I love it. It works nicely within my copy of Mailplane, as do the keyboard shortcuts. You can enable it from inside the Labs settings tab (which is where you can mess with keyboard shortcuts too). It made me smile when I looked at the hints. Gmail knew I was using a Mac and showed me the appropriate Command keystrokes to make stuff happen. Move items up and down the list with Command+Up or Command+Down, ...

Gmail Tasks Management
D' Technology Weblog — Google has added a new task management feature to Gmail as part of Gmail Labs. To enable Tasks, go to Settings, click the Labs tab (or just click here if you’re signed in). Select “Enable” next to “Tasks” and then click “Save Changes” at the bottom. Then, after Gmail refreshes, on the left under the “Contacts” link, you’ll see a “Tasks” link. Just click it to get started. Take entering a new task: just click in an empty ...

First Look: Google Adds Task Listing To Gmail
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — For a few years, Microsoft has made a task list a neat feature inside Outlook—a function that allows users to keep a running checklist of the stuff they need to do all day—and integrated it tightly into its e-mail and calendaring. Now Google is matching that functionality by adding a "tasks" function to Gmail. According to Google's Gmail blog: "People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we've added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail. . . . We put your tasks in the same kind of window as chats, so they're visible while you're scanning ...

Gmail Integrates Task List, Keeps You Organized
Today @ PC World — ... gave us one more reason to stay glued to our computer screens. The Labs Team have released yesterday a new feature for Gmail - Tasks - basically a To-Do list manager. But besides the usual task list bonanza, the new feature can also associate emails with tasks and create multiple to-do lists. [image] To activate Gmail Tasks, you will have to go to Settings/Labs in your Gmail account and right at the top you will find the Tasks module. Just click 'Enable' and then you're ready to go. If you go back to your Inbox now, under the Contacts tab you will find a Tasks link. When you ...

New 'Task Manager' Turns Gmail into a To-Do List
Wired: Epicenter — ... The new Task Manager features are currently part of Google Labs, which means you'll need to turn them on by visiting the Gmail Labs tab. To activate Tasks for your account, just click the little green beaker icon in the upper right corner of the Gmail window. The Tasks section is the top item in Gmail Labs, just check the "enable" box and save your changes. After that, when you refresh Gmail, the new Tasks link will appear under the Contacts link. ...

Google adds simple task manager to Gmail Labs
Boy Genius Report — Apparently, people have a lot to do these days. If we had a dollar for every web-based task manager out there, well, our next giveaway would probably be a diamond-encrusted Vertu. For web developers, it makes perfect sense; if you can manage to get people reliant on a web-based task manager you’re looking at a pretty fair number of pageviews each day from each user. Those developing all of these task managers may want to take notice however, as Google is treading on your turf. The king of all things web has just announced the addition of a simple task ...

Google Adds "Tasks" to Gmail
AppScout — ... Google today debuted Tasks for Gmail. Now available through Labs, the new Remember the Milk-like feature lets users keep track of activities through the e-mail app. ...

Google Tasks Not Enough to Sour My Love for Remember The Milk
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Ever since I made the migration from Microsoft Office to Google Apps, I’ve been whining for a Task/To-do List application from Google. It always puzzled me why such a simple application wasn’t already available from within either Gmail or Google Calendar. With no hint of an official Google task list, I turned to Remember The Milk and its handy-dandy Gmail plugin. Could my love affair with Remember The Milk turn sour, now that Google has announced Tasks for Gmail? Gmail Tasks is still a “Labs” project, so you’ll ...

Office clone?  Gmail adds Tasks
Gadgetell — ... tasks while mobile.  A quick check of the iPhone optimized Google pages shows no Tasks.  Given the past attention Google has paid to this area, I am sure we’ll see it soon. This also sheds a bit more light on Google’s efforts to replace Microsoft Office part for part.  Lacking Tasks was a big issue for folks like me who need reminders on what needs doing. Give Tasks a try by clicking on the Labs tab in Settings in your Gmail. Read [Offical Gmail Blog] Full Story » | Written ...

Google Adds “Tasks” to Gmail
The Inquisitr » Technology — Gmail has gotten a little more Outlook-like with a new “Tasks” option built into the Webmail interface. Gmail Tasks, now found under the “Labs” setting tab, lets you click to add any reminder to yourself, then check off items as you finish them. The function is also built into messaging. Once you activate tasks, you can select any e-mail, then select “Add to Tasks” under the “More Actions” menu to directly move the entire message into a Tasks item. ...

There is an e-mail revolution underway; Google raises stakes against online Outlook
Between the Lines — ... about Yahoo yesterday, a team over at Google was crafting a blog entry of its own , announcing Tasks - basically a to-do list - built into the Gmail interface. My EIC, Larry Dignan, had it right in ...

Google Tasks: Gmail gets a built-in to-do list
Obsessable News Feed — ... Google may not have as many users as behemoth webmail competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo!, but its Gmail service is still praised for its elegant design and excellent features. It's not perfect though, and the biggest complaint is that it doesn't have enough features. Case in point: folks have been begging for a "to-do list"-like task manager feature since day one. The feature has finally arrived, and it's oh-so-creatively called "Tasks." Is it destined to be an essential tool in your day-to-day life, or just a toy you'll quickly forget ...

GMail Hits Microsoft Outlook Where It Counts, Tasks!
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Microsoft Outlook has a function that enables users to add and prioritize tasks.  GMail has matched that function.  To set it up log into your GMail account, click on Settings -> Labs, and then click enable tasks.  Make sure to save the settings.  Then you can add incoming messages to the task list by clicking on the pull-down actions menu.   ...

Daily Tech: Who Doesn't Want a Slice of Apple Apple Pie?
GeekSugar — ... Do you spend all day on Gmail? You can make use of that time by utilizing the task manager, which is a fancy way to say to-do list. Just click in an empty part of your list and start typing. No buttons to click and it's saved automatically. — Gmail Blog ...

Google scratches to-do list off to-do list, and more
GMSV — When you watch the stream of tech headlines day in and day out, you get used to the constant presence of Google news and maybe a little desensitized to the sheer volume of products and tweaks and initiatives that keep pouring out of that place. Here’s a quick look at what the search sovereign is up to just today. * Google Labs has cooked up a lightweight to-do list called Tasks that plugs into Gmail. One spiffy feature — the ability to add an e-mail message as a task item. It may not convert dedicated fans of the more robust ...

Gmail crosses "todo list" off its todo list
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women — More Google. Gmail, this time. Rob Pegoraro, the Washington Post's really fine columnist on personal digital technology, tells you all about the new Google Labs todo list, formally known as Tasks, that can be added to your Gmail account. And here's a bit more about it, this from the Gmail blog. Posted by Tam    Category: Tags: Email this | Comments (0) ...

Google Corporate Blog Network Commands Trust with a Caveat
Google Watch — ... Conversely, Google's Gmail blog tends to feature posts from programmers, not marketing people, so the information is lean, matter-of-fact and generally devoid of hyperbole. Note this recent post about Gmail's new task manager tool. ...

Google Mail Introduces Simple Task Manager
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... This week Google added yet another feature, Tasks, to its growing list of handy Google Labs tools and utilities. Tasks is a minimalist task manager; it's essentially an editable to-do list. You can create and save tasks, schedule email reminders, and convert email messages into to-do items. The feature looks and behaves like a Google Chat window, appearing at the bottom of your Gmail Inbox when activated and coming with options to minimize or pop-out the window. To activate the feature, log into your Gmail account, click the beaker icon in the upper right hand corner, and select ...

Google Delivers Gmail Toys for the Holidays
WebProNews Feed — ... and spice up your inbox. - Turn on Tasks and keep track of your holiday shopping. - See your calendar, documents, and email all at once with ...

Hands On Review - Google Tasks [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... The Googlers responded a couple weeks ago with their launch of a Gmail Labs Task Manager, and like any self respecting Google junkie I just had to give it a shot. ...

TaskPaper 2.0: Simplicity in to-do applications [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Sadly, Gmail’s recently introduced Tasks feature doesn’t offer offline or mobile sync, my iPhone’s default Notes app has no desktop or web equivalent and ...

Oh no, Google is killing Google Notebook
SolSie.com — ... results. This is useful when you’ve found some results on Google Search that were really perfect for your query. You can read about how to use SearchWiki in this blog post. Google Docs - If you’re trying to jot down some quick notes, or create a document that you can share with others, check out Google Docs. Tasks in Gmail - For a lightweight way to generate a todo list or keep track of things, we recently launched Tasks in Gmail Labs. Google Bookmarks - For a tool that can help you remember ...

Watch Videos in Your Gmail Chat
WebProNews Feed — ... , tasks , etc. You can always check out all of the cool features in Gmail Labs by clicking the little green icon at the top of your gmail window (pictured above). You don't need to activate a lab to watch videos in your chat window though.

Google’s Finally Getting Things Done [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Well, we’re not quite there yet, but Google yesterday announced that Gmail’s recently-launched Tasks feature had been repackaged for mobile browsers for iPhone and Android as well as functioning independently of Gmail. The feature works well on the iPhone, particularly when added to the Home Screen with it’s own icon, giving it the feel of a native application. ...

Free Google Tasks Competes with Paid App on iPhone [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... Less than two months ago, Google added a lightweight Tasks feature to Gmail through the experimental Labs. The service ...

Google brings Gmail tasks to iPhone
(Obsolete Feed) — ... Google introduced a basic tasks for Gmail feature in December 2008. Now, the company has brought this respectably productive feature to the iPhone through an ...

Google's Tasks list on the iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPod Family, Internet, Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touchWhen Google Labs introduced "Tasks" to Gmail in December, we were eager for a mobile version; yesterday, the Gmail team announced an optimized Tasks web UI for mobile devices including the iPhone. Setup is simple. First, log into your Gmail account and click "Settings." From there, click "Labs" and then the "Enable" button next to "Tasks." As Jeff Goldblum said, "There's no step three." You'll see a link to Tasks in the left sidebar of your ...

uTodo: A New GTD App for Windows [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... , the app I used to use on Windows, just doesn’t feel right, and Gmail Tasks, while a neat little to-do manager, isn’t fully-featured enough for GTD. So when Cioaca Virgil of Veetosoft emailed me to tell me about ...

Google Calendar tests out new features in Labs
VentureBeat — ... Speaking of Gmail Labs, Google is graduating the email service’s to-do list, called Tasks, from Labs into a standard feature. Gmail only added Tasks back in December, and there are some older features still languishing in Labs, but the move matches my personal experience at least — along with ...