I’m bad with letting things get cluttered, but that’s why I’m taking action. I’m on chapter 4 of Getting Things Done and I’m inspired to finally get my gmail inbox clean. It feels like I had my inbox clean only a month or two ago, but I’m looking at 500+ messages that I kept “to do something with,” as in, not junk mail. Hm. That’s probably at least 100 things I planned on doing but didn’t. But that’s what GTD is meant to fix, so here I go!

I use FireFox and Gmail all the time. Gmail’s simplicity and power (and storage) and FireFox’s plug-in capability is a real winner in my book. When I ran across the GTDInbox plug-in for FireFox and Gmail I was just stunned that it was so perfectly available. After hesitantly installing it, stumbling through set-up, and then wrapping my head around what it was doing, I’m pretty pleased with the results so far.

GTDInbox provides a way to use Gmail as a GTD filing system, full of next actions, reference, and other labels.  It gives your labels a tree-folder apearance for easier managing of the many labels you’ll need, and also adds some “Reply to self” and “Compose to Self” options for making notes on items and reminding yourself of things. Pretty neat so far, but again, only for Gmail and only for FireFox.

Why stick with Gmail when there are so many Outlook plug-ins available? Because I can’t use those plugins at work, and I can’t use my home Outlook file structure at work. Gmail I can use just fine anywhere I have internet (just without the FireFox plug-ins). The flexibility just works better for me. And Outlook is slooooow with the gmail IMAP when you have 7000 messages to sync. I just can’t find a happy medium when I include Outlook.

Do y’all know of any neat GTD FireFox plug-ins? Or what do you use, if anything?

Other posts that may interest you:

1. Evernote? OK, I’ll give it a go.
2. My Senior Year: A New Plan for Notes