PTO with Google tasks (and other Gmail goodness)

Again, I find myself in the position of being a rabid Google fanboy, this time over the development of their new task list manager. First it appeared as a nice little add-on courtesy of Gmail Labs:

Google tasks in Gmail

But the Gmail blog posted recently that it now comes as an iGoogle widget:

Google tasks as an iGoogle widget

and – drum roll please – as an iPhone/Pod touch web app.

Google tasks iTouch interface

Mmm – nothing like a new productivity toy to help me do some really serious PTO.

Gmail also added something I have long been wanting via their new buttons.

Gmail - new buttons including label

The two new buttons are Move to and Labels. I like the labels feature in Gmail. Anything that adds tagability to my life is a good thing. My complaint has been the lack of a keyboard shortcut. With the addition of the new button, there is now a keyboard shortcut (the letter ‘l’) which opens up an interface for typing in the name of the label. Auto-completion of the label name helps a lot if you tend to have an excess of labels from which to choose.

Oh – by the way, PTO is an acronym for Putting Things Off. I’m not very good at actually getting things done but I like playing around with productivity tools. I am capable of looking like I am accomplishing tasks on the magnitude of building the pyramids without actually doing anything.