Some interesting announcements from Google today.
Google Tasks Leaves Labs
Google announced that Tasks is now a regular feature and no longer in Gmail Labs. That’s moving pretty fast for Google, isn’t it? Heck, it took years for Gmail itself to lose the Beta tag and Tasks has only been around for less than a year!
About 8 months ago, when first announced, I thought Tasks was a pretty cool feature. When it subsequently gained integration to Calendar I liked it even more.
I’ve made a few attempts at folding it all into my GTD’ish task tracking system but have yet to have much luck. However, I love tasks for the ability to create a task as an email — I can then archive it and get it out of my Inbox. Great tool towards Inbox Zero if nothing else.
Google Calendar Labs
Speaking of Google Calendar and labs, Google also announced that calendar is now getting a labs feature as well. Looks like it could be interesting, but hasn’t been rolled out to any of my Google Apps accounts yet.
Today there are six new Labs features in the list and more on the way. Try out Next Meeting, which shows you how much time you have to procrastinate. Free or Busy allows you to see which of your friends or coworkers are currently in meetings. And World Clock lets you keep track of different timezones when you schedule meetings. And as with Gmail Labs, there’s a feedback link for you to discuss these features and to suggest new ones.
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July 14th, 2009 
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