Archive for October, 2007

Gmail Updated, GTDInbox Winded…

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Quite a few of you have been kind enough to email me about this – thank you!

Gmail has started it’s global roll out of updates, that includes a complete UI rewrite (at least behind the scenes); completely flumoxing GTDInbox. In fairness to Google, they gave due notice on this; but not the exact date it would happen… so I’ve been caught with my pants down, figuratively speaking.

At the moment, if you want to continue to use GTDInbox, you can switch Gmail back to it’s Old Version, at which point it’ll work again.

I’ll be taking the tail end of this week to tackle the first release of version 2, which will of course work with the new Gmail.

Developments, announcements and early versions will be available on this blog – so you can subscribe on the right hand side (where, incidently, you can also donate ;) ).

Let’s get cracking!

A Thank You (and another GTDInbox tip)

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I quite often will check Technorati to see what is being said about GTDInbox & MeeTimer – it’s a great way of getting a sense of public opinion – and just lately I’ve noticed a few posts from Amy Gahran.

Amy, if you read this – thank you! You have been an exceptional champion of GTDInbox, and it’s nice to know that users are recommending it, and even better to know it makes a positive difference in someone’s life.

Her most recent post will be useful for anyone who uses GTDInbox, so if you get the chance, do check out out How I Tweaked GTDInbox to Suit My Style 

Using GTDInbox with Multiple Accounts – a reader tip!

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Chad Mounteny, someone who has been using GTDInbox for a long time, wrote a great tip on setting up Gmail & Firefox so you can an ‘email’ account and a ‘task’ account.

So, over to Chad…

As mention in your FAQ,  when you’re using a separate email for your GTD tasks you’ll run into problem of having to log in and out of gmail accounts, slowing down your workflow. You suggest using ‘Portable Firefox’, which is a great idea, but I found that you can’t still have another instance of firefox running while you’re running your customized GTD instance. I thought about it a little bit and pieced together a way of doing that works a measure cleaner than the ‘Portable Firefox’ solution.

-Run: firefox.exe -createprofile gtd

-Create a new shortcut in the location bar type: “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -no-remote -p gtd

-Now take the shortcut and place in on the desktop, the start menu, quicklaunch bar, or where ever.

-Run it and then log into the gmail account that you’re using for GTDinbox, check the ‘remember me box’, also select ‘remember’ at the firefox password manager prompt

-Goto view and remove all the extra toolbars to clean up the window (since you won’t be navigating anywhere else really anyways)

-Set Gmail as your homepage

Since the ‘-no-remote’ flag was enabled when firefox was ran it allows it to be ran as a second instance. That way you can continue browsing and working with your default firefox profile as well

When you need to add a task, just run the GTD profile shortcut and you can quickly have your inbox at hand without having to close any other firefoxes you have running.