1 post tagged “delegate to todoist”
Amir has been hard at work on Todoist [todoist.com], adding a lot of new features. His most recent feature [amix.dk] enabled you to add emails from gmail to your todo lists, assigning them priorities and whatnot just like regular items. Further, with just a click of a link you can reply to the email.
It's a great addition, and one of the clever things about it is that it uses javascript in a browser bookmark, meaning the integration works with pretty much any browser gmail and todoist supports. This is great, however I have no space for bookmarks in my interface, so this clever little solution irritated me somewhat. I would have to add a whole row to my interface just for Gmail-Todoist integration.
So, to this end I decided to write an extension for Firefox. I've never written one before, so it was a good learning experience. My initial idea was to add a small icon in the status bar, much like the other plugins I have. However, whilst in the process of learning how to do this I found a plugin called Gmail Skins [gmailskins.mozdev.org] which injects it's own scripts into Gmail to skin it and add smilies. I figured that if they could add smilies, I could add an "Add to Todoist" link - so I did.
I hope it helps some people who would prefer a tighter integration than is available in cross-browser support.
Update:
I have fixed a minor bug where the link would dissapear if you began composing a reply. I have also integrated it with GreyBox [orangoo.com], which means that instead of popping up in a new window it will appear as an overlay.
Thanks to Amir for showing a lot of love for this project.
