GTDGMail is a Firefox extension that provides an excellent “Getting Things Done” (GTD) framework for Gmail. It also adds advanced search abilities in Gmail, which are very welcome whether you are into GTD or not.

If it had existed when I was compiling a list of ten GTD apps for Mac users, it would have come in near the top of the list. It’s a very clever stretch of Gmail’s existing label and filter features.

GTDGmail is very easy to install. Simply navigate to the site, click on the install link and follow the prompts in Firefox. A quick relaunch, load Gmail and you are good to go.

The extension comes with “wizards” to install common labels for contexts, actions and projects. Detailed instructions make it easy to create your own additional ones.

Access to the GTD labels is provided at the top of each Gmail message:

The inbox helpfully displays those labels at the start of the message’s subject line (some of my labels are coloured by the Gmail Label Colors Greasemonkey script — I like visual clues):

Additional tweaks offer easy emailing of tasks and references to yourself.

One other feature of the extension will please Gmail users even if they are not interested in the GTD approach. The GTD search function allows you to construct complex searches in Gmail much faster than you can manually:

Once you needed to enter the string “label:freelance label:Hawk-Wings after:17/8/2006″ into Gmail’s search box. Now it is just a matter of a few mouse clicks.

GTDGmail is freeware and well-supported with documentation, tips and hints on the developer’s web site.GTD, getting things done, firefox, gmail, productivity, extension, email in general

WebnoteHappy has been updated. This clever app with an unfortunate name is a bookmark manager that allows you to tag and annotate your links.

The new version (1.2) brings support for syncing your bookmarks with your del.icio.us account, adds hot key support for Firefox and Shiira, clickable hyperlinks in the notes field and more.

All the fields in a WebnoteHappy webnote are now editable, including the URL itself.

The app sells itself partly as a native Mac OS X interface for del.icio.us and it does look nice:

You can read the full list of changes in the release notes .

WebnoteHappy is shareware (USD 24.95) and is available from the developer’s web site.bookmarks, delicious, URLs, tagging, Web 2.0, firefox, internet, not apple mail

The latest version of Thunderbird is more stable and brings the email client up to date with the latest Mozilla security fixes.

The update also brings some welcome improvements for Mac users.

Newsgroups are no longer “over-abbreviated” and HTML text cut from Firefox 1.5.0.5 now pastes into an email message properly.

You can read a fuller list of improvements and bugfixes on The Rumbling Edge, Mozilla’s Development blog.

Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 is available from the Mozilla web site .

[Thanks, Bronson]thunderbird, email, security, HTML, firefox

A few days ago, the Hawk Wings list of 254 different stamp icons for Mail.app was dugg.

Before the digg, Mint tells me that 58% of visitors to Hawk Wings use Safari and 27% Firefox.

After the digg—and a fair bit of traffic—those figures are 47% and 37%.

I don’t know what it means, but it’s interesting. Perhaps Firefox users are more social.hawkwings, safari, firefox, digg, what does it all mean?

Gmail is made faster and more efficient by a range of keystroke shortcuts .

Now Mozilla users can enjoy the speed boost in Thunderbird and Fastmail customers can also get some of the bonus with a Greasemonkey script.

GmailUI is a extension that brings these Gmail keystrokes to Thunderbird.

After installing it, open the extension’s preferences to see a list of the keystrokes it offers:

You can get it from the Mozilla Extensions site .

Fastmail.fm Shortcuts is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that brings some but not all of the Gmail shortcut to Fastmail’s webmail interface.

It offers the following keystrokes:

Installing Greasemonkey scripts is a little more tricky than your average extension, but installation instructions and the script itself can be found in the Greasemonkey userscript.org repository .gmail, firefox, greasemonkey, scripts, extnesions, thunderbird, email, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts

Langenhoven offers a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will encrypt Gmail messages.

It achieves this by using RSA type encryption in Javascript.

The site also offers a utility for producing the public and private keys needed for encryption.

I haven’t tested this but the results look like the real thing:

Read the Known Issues section to discover that it works best in Firefox 1.5 or greater and that some of the buttons are troublesome.gmail, encryption, greasemonkey, firefox, public public, private keys, email, security

This browser bookmarklet, “Gmail This“, creates a new Gmail message containing the URL of the web page you are viewing.

Just drag it to your Bookmarks Bar (Safari/Camino) or Command-click on it and select “Bookmark this link…” (Firefox).

That’s it.

[Via email.about.com ]gmail, email, bookmarklet, safari, camino, firefox, tips, shortcuts