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Comment author: lukeprog 02 July 2012 02:08:32PM * 8 points [-]

ActiveInbox (free, or $25/year for Plus)

GTD for Gmail. The best Gmail productivity tool I've ever found.

To grok ActiveInbox, watch the video. Here are my favorite features:

Keep your inbox empty by doing one of the following to each email: (1) reply and archive, or (2) make it a task with just one click, which moves it to a different folder.
When composing a new email, click 'Waiting on' to flag that you're waiting for a response from the recipient. Later, you can check the emails for which you're waiting on a reply. This way I don't mess up projects because people fail to respond promptly and I forgot that I was waiting on them for the next step.

Those two features alone are worth the setup for me, but ActiveInbox does a lot more than this, too.

Hat tip to Louie for finding this one.

Comment author: lukeprog 02 July 2012 05:52:38PM 5 points [-]

Note also that I only Facebook-gloat over screenshots of my Inbox Zero when all my ActiveInbox task folders are also empty. :)

Comment author: Jolly 04 July 2012 07:27:41PM 1 point [-]

If you use outlook, Outlook 2010 lets you (at least) duplicate these features.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 July 2012 02:25:36PM 0 points [-]

Looks good. Installed!