Archive for August, 2008

GTDInbox 2.0.9.2

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

The new GTDInbox is ready! Alas, no significant new features; but plenty of useful tweaks and a little more control over things.

Stability Updates
Preview should now work solidly on every email. This has never been possible before; but I tried a new technique and it is much more fool proof than the earlier methods.

We’ve got much better at bulk actions (using the More Actions dropdown). Again, there’s a new technique at work here; and it makes it much faster/more-robust at changing the Status on lots of messages at once.

The Modify Reviews screen is fully working again, including the ability to move things up & down (Thanks to André Branco).

Clicking Finished now removes all Status labels (that bug was introduced by a performance enchancement in 2.0.9.1, that now works correctly!).

The button shifting problem (noted in the forum), where the ‘Finished’ button got in the way, has been remedied by making it load faster.

Functional Improvements
I hope you’ll like this one! The Options have been improved to give you a lot more control of the UI. You can now choose which parts of GTDInbox you want to use (and hide the rest); as well as changing the label selectors from drop downs to inline (a lot of people have requested this at various times).
This sets us up nicely for the future by allowing more features to be added without overloading everyone’s screen.

A special thank you goes to Tim Lindsey, who probably holds the record for the largest number of consecutive, substantial donations (huge thanks Tim!); as well as being trusting enough to give me his personal account password in order to try and thwart the ‘Failed to Load’ problem. (On that note, I still don’t know what is causing it; it’s very strange; but the fix is in the last blog post).

Where next? There may be a 2.0.9.3 release (it really depends on the status of the Pro account), but I’ve now got everything I wanted out of the way to usher in 2.1. All the news and announcements will come through this blog!

Install 2.0.9.2

GTDInbox 2.0.9.1

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Hi!

I’ve just finished 2.0.9.1, which addresses a few bugs. There’s no new functionality (that was pushed back to 2.0.9.2 to allow me to get these bugs fixed more quickly!), but that will come in the next few weeks.

So, the bugs fixed include making ‘Modify Reviews’ fully operational again (thanks to quite a few of you!), making GTDInbox work with ‘Quick Links’ (from Labs) (thanks Jose), moving the ‘Hipster Print’ before ‘Delete’ (thanks Nathan and others),  and to make it better behave with Status labels on upgrading (thanks Frank). I also had a stab at fixing the ‘GTDInbox Failed to Load’, but I’m really not sure what is causing that. And, before I forget, I had a go at making GTDInbox work more nicely with Better Gmail’s Macros, by making it load after other addons. Let me know if that worked.

Just on the ‘GTDInbox Failed to Load’ issue, @filmil from the forums had a great answer (http://forum.productivefirefox.com/index.php?topic=517.15). In a nutshell, he advised resetting GTDInbox’s settings. To do this,
1) Close Gmail
2) In the address bar, type ‘about:config’ (without quotes) and agree to the warning
3) Search for ‘gtdinbox.settings’ (without quotes)
4) Right click it, and select ‘Reset’ (all GTDInbox settings will be lost!)
5) Reload Gmail
6) Load the Options and make sure your Prefixes and Default Status labels are correct
The truth is, I don’t know what causes it; but some users (like Palo) are reporting this helped. Hopefully 2.0.9.1 has addressed it itself.

In the next release (2.0.9.2), I will endeavour to fix the problem where Preview sometimes doesn’t work and improve the Options to give you more control over GTDInbox. Maybe this is the version where I’ll successfully get the Pro account in!

Ok, you can download the latest version by going to Install GTDInbox 2.0.9.1 and clicking the green install button.