Crumpled Notebook

I’m disappointed with the Gmail labs launched this week. I know this is just what Googlers do in their 20% time, but everything in the lab is nearly useless in function. I mean, who really needs a random signature? Sure it might be fun, but why not working on something like a Signature Picker to start with. The Quick Links could be useful, but Superstars, pictures in chat, custom date format, SNAKEY? Seriously? So, a few of this could be useful to a handful of people like the Quick Links and the Custom Keyboard Shortcuts (the only truly useful one I see on the list). Email Addict? Maybe, but geez, if you need your email program to tell you to take a 15 minute break, you have bigger issues that being addicted to email.

How about some of the following:

• Signature Picker
• Better Contact Manager
• A folder option for all those people who keep screaming about it that can’t figure out labels
• an option to not add every email you send to your address book
• Sub-labels
• message sorter
• notes to yourself in messages
• auto text

Just to name a few upgrades I’d like to see…

Tags: gmail