Comments on BehindLogic: My Ruby World: My Gmail [GTD] Request

I've made a little package that connects to Gmail ...

2008-08-08T12:20:00.000-04:00

I've made a little package that connects to Gmail IMAP to get the job done. Here's my script. It should work great on Mac or Linux, sorry to you Windows people, it's just not worth the effort!

http://github.com/dcparker/gmailboomerang/tree/master/GmailBoomerang.zip

Thanks for the suggestion, I checked it out and it...

2008-08-06T00:10:00.000-04:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I checked it out and it doesn't do what I need. I don't want to have any holding area for messages that I need to periodically paw through -- I need to send them off like a boomerang to come back to my inbox and bug me later by themselves.

I started writing a ruby script tool that will do what I need. My first version works without any local datastore, just moving any messages back to the inbox that are "too old" for the specific "folder" -- Tomorrow, Next Week, and Next Month. The next version will remember what it sees and what it moves, in a little sqlite3 database, so it can act more smartly and no message will slip through.

Perhaps you should have a look at GTDinbox from ht...

2008-08-05T20:52:00.000-04:00

Perhaps you should have a look at GTDinbox from http://productivefirefox.com.

Perhaps. I'm skeptical that Google would include i...

2008-08-05T11:43:00.000-04:00

Perhaps. I'm skeptical that Google would include it too, but they DID intend to reinvent email in the first place, and just using labels instead of folders was revolutionary in the first place. This idea just extends the labeling functionality, in a sense. It enables people to make for themselves a dynamic, rather than static, organizational system. I think it does go along with Google's mission to "organize the world's information." Do you hear me, Google?

By all means, if anyone has the time, please make this and comment here when you do. I'd probably pay $4 a month for it. :)

Wouldn't it be easier to write something that conn...

2008-08-05T11:38:00.000-04:00

Wouldn't it be easier to write something that connects to your Gmail account through IMAP and makes these changes for you on a scheduled basis, than to try to convince Google to build this into their system?