If you use Prism and you want to run GTDInbox for Gmail on it, please drop an email to Mike Crowe at support.prism@gtdinbox.com.
He’s working to get regular ports of GTDInbox to Prism released, and is looking for some beta testers to get started. Do let him know if you’re interested!
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Interesting discussion brewing with your opinions on what you use ActiveInbox for
Perhaps I’d be more interested in Prism if I knew what the advantage of Prism was over the Chrome Gmail Application window….
Seems to me that Gmail and Chrome have an advantage working together. Am I wrong?
@Chris,
The Prism+GTDInbox application creates a desktop icon which runs GTDInbox as a stand-alone application. If you are not a Firefox user, or you want to have an “email application”, this is a solution.
I love Chrome, but I need GTDInbox to manage my email. My current workflow uses Prism+GTDInbox as a stand-alone application (so I get the GTDInbox goodness of managing my email), and I can use Chrome (or any other browser, for that matter) for my web browsing.
Once the Chrome port is complete, you will have GTDInbox available while browsing with Chrome. However, if you want to create a Chrome application shortcut, it appears you can add –enable-extensions to the Chrome shortcut to include the GTDInbox extension (I’m basing this whole paragraph on reading this post: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1792/install-extensions-in-google-chrome/). This will have to be tested and validated, of course.
When this time arrives, the above Chrome application shortcut would be identical to Prism+GTDInbox.
Hey, I love GTDInbox (still waiting on that rumored name change.)
I use one email address for work, personal, and political work.
I am an attorney and I created nested labels for each client (name).
But I also subdivide my clients based on type of case (criminal court, family law, probate) as well as type of client (private practice, pro bono, court appointed, consulting only.)
I also am involved in two different non-profits which create a huge number of emails with responses from various members.
I also use GTDInbox to label incoming emails from my bank.
My filters label emails as Personal or Business based on the account number in the email.
Also I have filters that label based on keywords so that I know if the email relates to an expense, a deposit, or just a balance. This comes in handy during tax season.
I use GTDInbox extensively,
I set up a filter so that ALL incoming emails are Actions.
This forces me to deal with all emails. Quite frankly all my emails are tasks.
It often is the case that the only task is to read the email and delete it but that is a task.
I may send out an email to my political email lists. I might get a reply from a group member but I label it as Finished because I am not waiting on a reply. But if someone replies, it becomes an Action. Maybe I need to respond, maybe not, but I want the reply to show up in my Action list so that I am forced to decide on my response.
All mail from mailing lists are Actions. I might need to decide to RSVP (I set that up as a separate label as S/RSVP because until I can assign a deadline to an email I need to know that some emails have an event date and a deadline date. The RSVP label is an easy way to have a list of opportunities that I cannot always immediately decide on due to scheduling issues but that need a decision eventually).
A mailing list email may require a response from me in terms of signing a petition, or choosing, eventually, to purchase a product, or it might require more time to read because it is educational.
Regardless, even my mailing list emails are tasks.
Every email requires a decision and that fact makes every email a task and therefore an Action.
Now you know how I used GTDInbox and why I am waiting to give you my money for the “full” version!
I just discovered ‘multiple profiles’ on firefox (I found this at Lifehacker) which seems to kind-of-do what prism promises to do. It allows you to have different instances of firefox with different combinations of addons. I have now set up a gtdinbox profile that just includes gtdinbox addon (as a result my gmail account runs much more smoothly).
Is there any reason to prefer prism over multiple firefox profiles?
This would be a game changing feature for me. Please, please add it.
I gave up PRISM to use GTDinbox but I really miss it.
The simplest benefit of prism is that it shows up as a separate application from Firefox which means that I don’t have to go hunting through a 10+ firefox windows and 50+ tabs that I have open to find my inbox. (Just looking at window titles doesn’t help. The window title for firefox is determined by the active tab. If you follow a link in an email then gmail will no longer be the active tab.)
From a privacy stand point I also like the fact that I can browse the web without being logged into google.
As for Chrome I use Linux and Chrome still isn’t widely available for Linux. (Yes it there’s a Linux port but until there’s a package in the Ubuntu repository it’s not worth my time.)
Running GTDInbox in Prism allows me to bounce Firefox separately from my email and it allows me to use other Firefox extensions (such as the XSS defender No Script).
I am still unsure what prism can offer beyond using multiple firefox profiles which let’s you have as many open firefox accounts with different combinations of add ons.
Here’s how: http://lifehacker.com/5481213/master-multiple-firefox-profiles-for-more-productive-browsing
Perhaps the main difference is quick launch versus switching profiles….