01 Jan, 2007
Google… Please Create a To-Do List!
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Instructional Technology
As most of you know… I love Google. I love almost everything about them. I have at least tried all of their products I can, and use G-mail, Google Calendar, Picasa Web Albums, Google Video, Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and Google Maps at least a dozen times each day.
This year for Christmas several members of my family bought me Google shirts and other Google Store paraphernalia. I think I am safe in saying I am the biggest Google fan I know. Self-proclaimed as such, I have only one request for Google for 2007. It’s not huge…. in fact, I don’t even think it would be that hard. I want a to-do list.
Now I know this is on the radar. Back when I started using Google Calendar, as the responsible Google user that I am, I went to their suggestion site and tried to suggest a to-do list. They give you a list of categories to give to your suggestion and the very first one was a To-do list. I just added mine on there, but that was over 10 months ago (ages in Google time). They have launched over two dozen other things since then, but have yet to come up with some sort of to-do list. I have waited and waited…. and waited… but my life is falling apart.
My G-mail inbox will not work as a to-do list any longer. I have tried installing Greasemoney scripts, but I need repeating to-do lists that synchronized across computers so I don’t forget stuff. I tried using Remember the Milk and integrating it with my calendar, but that was only good for cluttering up my calendar with items that were difficult to mark off and slow to synchronize. I search for new solutions just about once a week and am currently trying to use the GTD extension written for Firefox, but I really just want another pane in a window like… shudder… Outlook. Dear Google, please don’t make me go back to Outlook. Please, please. Work your AJAX magic and make some sort of to-do list. Do something like the chat window currently in G-mail that I can open when I want… pop out if I want, and best of all, check off across multiple computers!!
I know you are busy, and all I really need is a simple synchronizing to-do list, but if you have time I have two more suggestions as to how you can make a great to-do list that others will love and adopt too! #1. Make it so I can have multiple lists. #2. Please let me share lists with others (so my wife can share lists with me).
Thank you for all you’ve done for me so far Google… please, though… if you could just make a great to-do list available somewhere.
Sincerely,
Lost in North Carolina
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