Plugins like Remember The Milk were extremely useful for people looking to add tasks to their Gmail and Google Calendar. Unfortunately, the problem with creating plugins for products like this is that it’s inevitable they become obsolete when the feature becomes natively supported. Thankfully, for RTM, Google Calendar still doesn’t support task lists of any kind.
Gmail, however, just launched a new feature in “labs” which adds Task functionality. It’s quite a bit different from the Remember the Milk addon, but it serves pretty much the same purpose. A problem that still exists is that it doesn’t sync with anything yet — that means any tasks you enter are only accessible in Gmail, nowhere else. That said, synchronization is sure to happen sooner or later.
Enabling and using the new task featur is very simple:
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.
What do you think of the new feature?
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