Remember The Milk for Gmail 1.0 - Gmail Add-On

Remember The Milk for Gmail turns your overflowing Gmail inbox into a truly helpful to-do list that (sublimely connecting tasks with messages and contacts and Google Calendar items) gets things done and emails answered.
Remember The Milk for Gmail could profit from keyboard shortcuts, direct access to item notes and some refinements. It's also a pity Remember The Milk for Gmail is available for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome only.

With verve, Gmail handles your emails and your contacts. What, though, about the tasks inside the emails you get, especially those not completed in a minute or two?

With grace, Remember The Milk (RTM) handles your tasks and your routine. What, though, about the emails from which many a task arose, especially those in bare need of replying? You can link from Remember The Milk to emails in Gmail, of course, switch back and forth, press countless keys and hope for the best. Or install Remember The Milk for Gmail.

Remember The Milk for Gmail, available only for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as an extension, integrates RTM into Gmail so that you can see, edit and add to-do items alongside your emails. Remember The Milk for Gmail does a lot more than that, though.

When you add a task (which you can do in almost natural language: "Mail Angelique a week before trip to Fiji"), Remember The Milk for Gmail looks up Angelique in your Gmail contacts and links her to the task. If the Fiji trip is in your Google Calendar, Remember The Milk for Gmail will look up the date and pick the right due date, too.

Of course, you can also turn emails into tasks — reminding you to reply by default — easily, either using Gmail's "More Actions" menu or by labelling or starring a message. That the "Add Task" action is only available when a message is opened is one of the few points that could be refined. The lack of keyboard shortcuts, no direct access to task notes and that Remember The Milk for Gmail can only peek in your Google calendars, not others to which you subscribe, are others.

Remember The Milk for Gmail's task pane itself is highly functional, of course: it lets you pick the list (or smart list) to see, you can search easily and group tasks conveniently. Some actions appear a bit sluggish, but not enervatingly so.