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!

Get GTDInbox 3.0.17 now (It will appear automatically in Firefox in the next few days).

This is one of the biggest bug fixing updates we’ve ever done, and includes several big steps behind the scenes towards the Chrome port.

One of the major problems – it turns out after lots of digging – is that GTDInbox would not work when cookies are (partially) disabled in Firefox’s preferences. A huge thank you to Tom Brown for so diligently trying fixes and sending feedback to help solve this last week.

There’s lots more bug fixing besides. Most notably for Plus users, “Reply to Self” should now always appear (on conversations with many messages it would not always show – thanks to Michael Lebor for that report).

The GTDInbox Preferences screen has moved into Gmail (accessible from the sidebar). The reason for this is to make way for the Chrome port (i.e. to make preferences less Firefox specific). It’s not very pretty yet, but it is functional!

We’ve also done lots of work to increase performance – it should be noticeably faster.

I know the red Error Warning box has been an irritation for those of you who were suffering problems, but it really has enabled us to fix bugs faster than at any time in our history. We’re hopeful that we’re getting closer to a point where the red box will appear less and less (and we will keep going until that is ‘never’). Thank you so much for your patience with this.

(If, after installing 3.0.17, you still have any problems, do not hesitate to drop us an email – support@gtdinbox.com).

We’re going to continue to fixing any problems that come up, but we’re also switching back to new feature development. Expect the next release later this week.

Hi guys,

Just a quick update on the state of GTDInbox Plus Beta roll out…

Rolling out to Donators and the Waiting List

When Peyton previously announced that all invitations had been sent, he meant only people who had agreed to accept potential instability by being the first people into the system. We’re now ready to send the rest of the invites, so expect an email this week. We will start with donators and then move onto the Waiting List.

Updated GTDInbox Plus Tour

We just uploaded a quick and simple tour of the GTDInbox Plus features tohttp://www.gtdinbox.com/tourplus.html.

Account Management – Secondary (Personal) Accounts

On your account management page you can now add a secondary (personal) email address to use GTDInbox on. This means you can buy Plus for your work account, and also run it on your home account.

(You can also now change the email account GTDInbox Plus works on. This means you can migrate it to a different account, or if you accidently entered the wrong email address on sign up, you can easily correct it).

The Next GTDInbox Plus Feature

We are continuing to focus all our resources on fixing all the new errors reported by GTDInbox’s Error Warning System (although it might be a little irritating while it discovers previously unnoticed problems, it’s possibly the greatest step forward we’ve ever taken towards identifying and fixing problems little & large within GTDInbox – we are getting there!).

I hope work will begin on the next Plus feature at the end of this week, probably to be released early next week. Keep an eye on the blog!

Great news for users of older – and experimental – versions of Firefox (particularly on Linux): I believe we’ve fixed a big loading issue, first identified by Davide B – thanks to all who wrote in about it. 

We’ve also stopped the new Google Buzz from showing an error in the GTDInbox warning box, and several other small fixes. 

As usual, you can download it immediately from http://www.gtdinbox.com/gettingstarted.htm

Expect another blog post about the Plus accounts later today, and another release early next week!

GTDInbox 3.0.13 builds on the bug fixing work of 3.0.12 by:

* Fix additional loading issues we’ve discovered, especially for new/upgrading users
* Stop the ‘Labeling Box’ being added many times to a conversation (thanks Michael L!)
* Ensure magnifying glass and labeling box correctly added when you click a normal Gmail label (thanks Jorg!)

Get it from http://www.gtdinbox.com/gettingstarted.htm

Assuming no high priority problems arise, for our next release, we’re planning to address:
* Stop the harmless-but-irritating warnings shown when you view the new Buzz
* Make the red Warning Box a preference
* Try to fix problems with old or obscure versions of Firefox (as suffered by David B, Chuck and Sabrina)
* Any new problems uncovered by the fixes in 3.0.13

We are aiming for a Friday release (tomorrow).

I’m also going to do a little polishing on the Plus Account System website:
* Make it possible to change the account you use Plus with
* Make it possible to add a secondary personal email address to use Plus on

If I may add one more side note, I’m keen for everyone to understand why we’ve had a recent flurry of issues and why they’re unlikely to be such a problem in the future.

Previously, Gmail provided us with the inbuilt means to know when Gmail had loaded, when a user was viewing a thread list (e.g. the inbox) and when they were viewing a conversation — which is very critical to GTDInbox. About two weeks ago, this started to be removed, and all addons working with Gmail were forced to find an alternate solution. Together with Michael at Integrated Gmail, we worked on building a custom and elegant solution – and we found one. However, given it was both brand new and affected every part of GTDInbox, it’s had some teething problems. I believe those problems are now close to being fixed, and we are left with a new and stable core to GTDInbox that is unlikely to break in the future.

Hi guys,

GTDInbox 3.0.12 is ready for both Free and Plus customers. It’s a straightforward bug fixing release.
Everyone can get it now from http://www.gtdinbox.com/gettingstarted.htm

It includes:
* Fix problem where GTDInbox sometimes cannot load in Gmail/Firefox
* Re-added ‘Finish’ button to Free
* Refined handling of Multiple Inboxes
* Increased robustness of pre-labeling

There’s still lots more to clear out on the bug list, but we’re releasing in small increments to get the improvements to you as fast as possible.

On a side note, I’d like to briefly mention why – and apologize for – the fact we weren’t as fast as we’d like to be getting these bug fixes prepared. We simply had a “triple whammy” of trouble – getting Plus ready (which behind the scenes involves some big modifications), multiple major Gmail changes (including one that presented a real hurdle) and my own struggle with salmonella. I’m nearly back to full strength now and will be back in action on both development and support emails over the coming days – of course Peyton will be continuing to do a great job as he has been for the last month or so.

Expect another small set of updates before the week is done!

Best,

Andy

The beta continues going well, so we have sent invitations to another round of GTDInboxers. We have been sending to people who indicated that they were OK with a true beta and to a few who asked to be bumped up even though they had initially declined the true beta. If you’d like an invite, please sign up and then let us know! We’ll be glad to send you one!

Reports indicate that Firefox 3.6 is giving us problems, so making GTDInbox fully compatible with it is a priority. We are also planning to bring back the Finish button that we accidentally removed from GTDInbox Free.

If people have suggestions for improvement, now that they’ve been using GTDInbox Plus Beta, we’d love to hear them, either here or on UserVoice.

Best,

Peyton

The GTDInbox Plus Beta roll-out continues to go reasonably well. We have identified several common problems with GTDInbox not loading. Firefox 3.6 is often involved. We should have a new release to solve these problems, next week.

Meanwhile, if you were expecting an invitation but haven’t received it, please check your spam folder. As one would expect when sending out multiple messages that all say about the same way, some of ours are being flagged as spam.

We are happy with the reception GTDInbox Plus Beta has been getting. Most GTDInbox people have been able to upgrade and use the new version without any serious problems (though we appreciate it when they send in their error reports — those reports are guiding us as we prepare the next release).

We just sent emails to another 80 GTDInbox users, inviting them to upgrade to GTDInbox Plus Beta. If all goes well, we will send another 80 invitations, tomorrow. If you haven’t already registered for the upgrade waiting list, please follow this link to the waiting list page. If you don’t know what the upgrade is about, please take a look at the feature tour on YouTube so you can get a glimpse of the powerful new tools we have added in this first release.

Several people have asked about the Chrome port. Just to reassure everyone, it is still scheduled for release before the end of this month. With luck, it will be sooner.