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melusina — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:58:57 -0000

okay

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waferboard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:47:18 -0000

Integration is why I use Opera as a browser. Except for a calendar, which seems to be missing.

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sabr — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:18:18 -0000

Outlook 2007 really makes working with tasks and appointments in the e-mail environment nice. I think MS got a lot right with the most recent version. I would say that having my task list there has made a huge improvement in my productivity. I do shut down my e-mail for portions of the day though. I open Outlook back up when I need to move on to a new task.

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robdiana — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:31:11 -0000

Well, I can understand your point, but the integration within Outlook has made people more productive. For people using Google for their business, this could be a nice boost.

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robdiana — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:29:53 -0000

The Reader integration would be interesting. They would have to be careful with it as it could really take over the interface.

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Carl Morris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:44:45 -0000

This strikes me as really bad for people who want to get things done.

Email is NOT a platform, at least not to me. It's essential, I use it daily but I also value my time spent away from email.

We have reached a point where you and I and everyone else have a second job - which is struggling to catch up with email.

What we need are tools, disciplines and lifehacks that diminish this dependence on the compulsive drip-drip-drip of email. There should be some kind of partition between email and the todo list and also everything else.

Businesses lose so much money from compulsive email habits. This kind of convergence just draws people into their email clients. Outlook and Apple Mail are guilty too. (For what it's worth, I use Mozilla Thunderbird.)

It's understandable in Google and Yahoo's case as they want to increase advertising impressions by locking people into an all-in-one system.

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RamenJunkie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:35:09 -0000

I already keep gmail open pretty much all day to keep an eye on my email. I have something like 5 accounts all filtering into it.

I haven't used tasks yet though. I a agree that they should have just bought out RTM. RTM by design is very Google like already, it's almost liek they intended to be "bought by Google".

Anyway, I also thing integrating Google Reader into Gmail would be as simple as adding a side bar that changes the main view. It's something I wish they would do.