Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Great Idea #7: Gmail Stars

I love my Gmail. It keeps track of e-mail conversations, lets me file e-mails in more than one folder, send e-mails from different e-mail addresses and even lets me talk to friends in "real time". The fact that it automatically scans my e-mails for keywords to post up related advertising doesn't bother me. For someone who likes to be as geekily organised as myself, Gmail is wonderful.

The one thing that would make Gmail PERFECT would be different coloured stars. At the moment, all the stars are yellow. This is unfortunate. I have no idea what's a volunteer-work-related star, what's a friend-catchup related star and what's an annoying-bureaucracy related star. I can't prioritise. I just know I have 25 stars that I should be doing something about, rather than blogging about... Argh! Help me, Gmail! I can't organise without you!

And if you won't do it, the idea is now out there for someone else to create an e-mail application-thing JUST LIKE GMAIL, but with coloured stars. You wouldn't want that to happen, do you?

1 comment:

Naomi said...

I agree! Somebody invent this NOW! I want Gmail to be more fabulous than it already is. Please......