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Devin Reams: GMail Todo List

  • noah kagan · 3 years ago
    Good idea. I will give it a shot. If there was only some type of way to prioritize. I guess you could make sub-labels under the to-do category.
  • Devin Reams · 3 years ago
    I actually do a number system, so I do something like:

    5: Email Noah, tell him he's good looking

    So I can search for "label:Todo 5:" and get all my top priorities. :)
  • Nick Gavronsky · 3 years ago
    Thats pretty awesome devin, didnt even know gmail had this capability. I'll definitely give it a shot.
  • Mad Goldfish · 3 years ago
    I do a similar thing, but I've called my label .ToDo, the . at the front means it's always at the top of my labels so no matter how many labels scroll off the bottom of the screen I can always see it.
  • Devin Reams · 3 years ago
    Good idea, thanks for sharing!
  • delivi · 3 years ago
    Hey, Devin that was really nice of you by providing an idea to utilize the GMail service usefully. I'd use this to keep me reminded of the never ending ToDo list. Once again thanx for sharing the useful idea with us.

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  • Dave · 3 years ago
    I love this tip. Is there any way to turn this Gmail todo list into an RSS feed that I could read from Bloglines (or whatever reader you want). That way, I'd be reminded of the todo again. The guilt would probably overwhelm me and force me to take some action.
  • Devin Reams · 3 years ago
    Hi Dave, great idea I didn't even think of that! All you need to do is subscribe to the atom feed for the label. For example: https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/Todo - it'll ask for your credentials and then you're good to go!
  • Anders · 3 years ago
    I didn't know about the atom-feed feature, thanks!
  • Michael · 2 years ago
    Very useful indeed. There is a lot of hidden power in Gmail, we just need people like Devin to uncover it.
  • Andrew · 2 years ago
    Great Stuff! So handy for GTD.. If only I could use it at work, but I have tasks with subtasks and chains.. I can't figure out how to do that with Gmail :) - Outlook is also useless
  • Devin Reams · 2 years ago
    Thanks, Andrew. Perhaps double-tagging your tasks. ie: a search for label:Todo label:Project1 will yield all the sub-tasks for that project? In any case, glad it's helped. :-)
  • dirktheeng · 2 years ago
    How about due dates and having them come up first?
  • Devin Reams · 2 years ago
    Nah, there's no way to sort with GMail.
  • Chris · 2 years ago
    I like this idea, but I would like a way to print my todo list (yes, I still use paper). Any idea how to print an inbox view that is not all messy?
  • Devin Reams · 2 years ago
    Perhaps the 'basic HTML' view found at the bottom makes it a bit cleaner for you?
  • lee sander · 2 years ago
    Hi,
    I am slightly confused :
    Suppose, my current gmail email address is
    dude@gmail.com then I should create a new email gmail account/address
    called dude todo@gmail.com?


    thanks
    lee
  • Devin Reams · 2 years ago
    Hi Lee, all you have to do is send an email to devinreams ANYTHINGHERE@gmail.com (include the plus) and it will still go to you. Meaning you can technically have infinite email addresses. When you sign up at the WSJ you could have emails be you WSJ@gmail.com.

    I just set set a filter that any emails coming to: devinreams todo@gmail.com are archived and labeled.
  • Kieron · 1 year ago
    Thanks for writing this up!