But none of the recently announced innovations are making my eyes light up like a kid first gazing on his Easter basket. First, from the Gmail Blog: Nested Labels and Message Preview. The Nested Labels thing actually did have me excited as though it were a chocolate egg or perhaps a Peep. But then I [...]
Also tagged android, Droid, iPhone, Nexus OneRachel at cre8d design bemoans the loss of long-form writing. The example is a book telling a story composed of emails. While I agree with the sentiment that the loss of long-form writing is just that – a true loss – I’d be interested in seeing the same book told through Tweets and TwitPics (or [...]
Also tagged android, Facebook, Google, The Death of Long-Form, TwitterWhile it wasn’t one of the major factors I talked about in my previous post, the following is a quick and easy example of another reason that webapps kick ass: No Upgrade Cycle Google launched Buzz 2 days ago, and already their making changes based on user feedback. But the best part is not that [...]
Also tagged Buzz, Google, Web DevelopmentI don’t know how this is going to work once we start Waving everybody, but for now, this is how I populate my To Read List without using Delicious or Instapaper or {Your App Here}, but rather with a tool that requires no additional sign-ups: Email. Okay, I lied a little. You’ll need an RSS [...]
Also tagged Getting Things Done, Google Reader, iPhone, Offline Apps, Productivity, To ReadGoogle Operating System has found some Gmail code that indicates the coming of a social inbox! So, not only will we have one inbox for Everything, but it’ll be organized by importance (or at least how important Google thinks things are).
Also tagged Googleor: All Your Inbox Are Belong To Us So, there’s a thing called Google Voice (via TechCrunch). And to quote TechCrunch: Google also says that full integration with Gmail is coming, but won’t say when. Personally, having all my email, SMS and transcribed voicemails in a single inbox could be life-changing. Yes indeed. Of course, [...]
Also tagged Google, Google Voice, TechCrunchImage via CrunchBase By disabling the Labs extensions and then reenabling the most important ones, I’ve managed to fix my issue with Gmail constantly resizing the inbox, and now have 4 different (lowercase) inboxes displayed one on top of the other: Inbox (for GTD style collection – even though my library still hasn’t gotten the [...]
Also tagged Google Gadget, Google Labs, Mozilla Firefox, Remember The MilkIf it’s good enough for Gina Trapani, it’s certainly good enough for me. Sorry Apple fans (I know there’s at least 2 reading this blog)… I use and spend more time in Gmail more than anything else (yes, even Facebook!), so if an Android phone is better for that, then it’s not even really a [...]
Also tagged android, Gina Trapani, Google, iPhone, SmartphoneSo, yesterday I set up additional mailboxes using Gmail Labs’ new Multiple Inboxes feature. Then I created a label called To Do and added “label:To Do” as one of my other inboxes (well, actually, my only other one). This slight tweak allowed me to move things from my capital-I Inbox to the To Do label, [...]
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