GMail team has launched the tasks feature as one of the labs feature of GMail, as announced in the latest blog post of the team’s blog.
People use Gmail to get stuff done, so we’ve added a lightweight way to keep track of what you need to do, right from within Gmail.
Well, this is indeed a great news for those who are using GMail as the main interface to check email, however I’m still going to keep myself to Apple’s Mail program as I found it way more convenient and fast as compared to using the web interface. Well, this sure is a good news, however it seems to me that it surely is a bad news for the Remember the Milk team.
Remember the Milk is an online get things done (GTD) application which was doing really well as the team behind this wonderful application leveraged on Google’s applications like GMail, Google Calendar, iGoogle by integrating itself with the help of various firefox based plugins.
With the launch of GMail tasks and the amount of coverage it’s getting (Tech.Blorge, Lisa’s comparison of both applications, Techcrunch), I’m sure it will become difficult for RTM team to enjoy the same benefits. Honestly, I think those who have used Remember the milk will surely stick to it as it has got much more features and options as compared to the GMail tasks and not to forget that RTM is compatible with various other devices like Blackberry, iPhone/iPod touch etc.
Well, apart from this there is one suggestion which I’d love to give to RTM team. If somehow they can ensure that GMail tasks and RTM plugin can sync together, then it will benefit those who don’t have notebooks and use various other computers to access their mails. This way, they will have good enough flexibility and will always stick to RTM.
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Jose Paul Martin
January 7th, 2009 at 4:03 am #
I guess RTM was not GYM (Google Yahoo Microsoft) safe, Google has done it again. Yes, RTM has features – the question is – DO YOU REALLY NEED THEM!? Simplicity works.