GTDInbox 3.0 Alpha 16

Believe it or not, Alpha 16 represents a week of truly intense work – but has virtually nothing to show for it!
The reason being it’s one of those interminably dull efforts that focused rigouresly on stability and efficiency. The most observable of which is that if you do have problems, GTDInbox should now be far more vocal about telling you so – so at least diagnosis will be easier!
All improvements are based on the feedback we’ve received, notably from Michael Lebor, Alain Aubert, Anthony Apparailly, Bart Tuts, Binny Bansal, Susan Penter and including a first rate scolding from Ivan Lacasa for mispelling Gina Trapani’s name on the website ;)
There are a few visual tweaks courtesy of Pete. Our tireless mission to reduce the size of the Labelling Box continues, and we have new Status buttons. I’m not yet 100% convinced about the change (they’re much flatter) so let me know your thoughts.
There’s a blog post to follow on a design decision we have to make; and then we’re into some rapid development on new features I’m very excited about (including our first go at including some simple Stats) next week.
PS Thanks entirely to Dr Mike Crowe, we’re making our first efforts to get GTDInbox working on Prism. For those unfamiliar with it, it means you’ll be able to install Gmail+GTDInbox as a standalone application on your system; so you can run it alongside any browser you choose. It’s going to take a while to perfect, but work is underway.

Believe it or not, Alpha 16 represents a week of truly intense work – but has virtually nothing to show for it!

The reason being it’s one of those interminably dull efforts for stability and efficiency. The most observable of which is that if you do have problems, GTDInbox should now be far more vocal about telling you so – so at least diagnosis will be easier!

All improvements are based on the feedback we’ve received, notably from Michael Lebor, Alain Aubert, Anthony Apparailly, Bart Tuts, Binny Bansal, Susan Penter and including a first rate scolding from Ivan Lacasa for misspelling Gina Trapani’s name on the website ;)

There are a few visual tweaks courtesy of Pete. Our tireless mission to reduce the size of the Labelling Box continues, and we have new Status buttons. I’m not yet 100% convinced about the change (they’re much flatter) so let me know your thoughts.

There’s a blog post to follow on a design decision we have to make; and then we’re into some rapid development on new features I’m very excited about (including our first go at including some simple Stats) next week.

It’s available from http://www.gtdinbox.com/gettingstarted.htm.

PS Thanks entirely to Dr Mike Crowe, we’re making our first efforts to get GTDInbox working on Prism. For those unfamiliar with it, it means you’ll be able to install Gmail+GTDInbox as a standalone application on your system; so you can run it alongside any browser you choose. It’s going to take a while to perfect, but work is underway.

  • dr

    I see that the labels now work when in Flakey Connection mode (thanks!). Is it possible to cut down the amount of text that says you’re in “Offline mode” in the sidebar, though? Maybe just have it say (Offline) or something simple like that? Having the entire text there takes up an additional 4 lines on the sidebar. Yeah, 4 lines isn’t much, but to a minimalist it’s distracting :(

  • dr

    Also, I’m sure you’ve noticed but I thought I’d point it out anyway – the new buttons are nice, but the “Today” button is slightly lower than the others, and the “Archive” and “Finish” buttons are having the bottom cut off:

    http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/gtd1.jpg

  • dr

    Correction – the above is only happening when the subject is so long that it gets line-wrapped.

  • http://em.anilatluri.com Anil

    Andy,
    that is one helluva combo – prism and GTD. Look forward to it? What about Bubbles and the others?


    Anil Atluri

  • taka

    How can I become a beta tester of the Prism version?

  • Chip

    I actually liked the a15 buttons better… I tend to GTD in a hurry and the larger/slicker buttons were appreciated. That being said, thank you for all your work to stabilize the plug-in. I would be lost without GTDInbox – keep it coming!

  • David

    I’m getting dupes when I flag an email. I click ‘Action’ and the label Action in the GTD sidebar shows that I have (2), but, there’s only 1 email with Action!

  • Pierre

    A problems in “Preview in Popup”:
    In the popup window, the message’s titles with Chinese characters (UTF-8 encoding) turns to unrecognized characters, while the message body remains correct.
    Thanks for your great effort!

  • http://www.johncoble.com John Coble

    I am also looking forward to GTDInbox for Prism! That would be great for decreasing distractions and having more screen space available for GTDInbox/Gmail.

  • BCC

    I would love to use Gmail+GTDInbox in Prism- please sign me up as a tester, if needed.

  • http://thomas.apestaart.org/ Thomas Vander Stichele

    After having our company migrate to GMail (suck), then finding GTDInbox (yay), then hating firefox crashing my mail (suck), then finding out about prism to separate mail (yay), then realizing my prism+gmail didn’t have gtdinbox (suck), then googling and finding this page (yay) – I would really really love to try and help test prism+GTDInbox.

    Can you give us some more info on what we should do to get it to work ?

  • http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/panama Mireya Panama

    I Will have to come back again when my course load lets up – nevertheless I am taking your RSS feed so I can read your site offline. Thanks.

  • peyton

    Thanks, so much! Best of success with your course work, and we look forward to having you back when you have more time!

    Best,

    Peyton

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