Recently, I found a few new tools that I am learning to use. There are so many add-ins out there that it’s hard to find the good ones some times.
I started using Boomerang for GMail (thanks to the AnywhereMan Dave Yankowiak’s podcast recommendation). The really useful part of Boomerang should even have to be a third party product, it should be a built in function of GMail which is scheduled email sending. Sometimes you just don’t want to send the email right away so it’s nice to have the option to schedule the send for later. Boomerang also gives the ability to “remind” you of emails that you need to do something with. I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t used that feature too much yet. Cool little utility though.
Second, I started using ActiveInbox for Gmail (again thanks to Dave). It’s a pretty neat tool for prioritizing and categorizing project emails. It can help you use your email almost like a task management type tool. I think if you sprung for the Pro version, you have an even better ability to manage tasks (it adds deadlines and other management features). Neat tool to check out!
Third, this one is more developer focused. It is the ext.net control set. This component suite is a .Net extebsion of the Sencha Ext JS project. It’s open source and has most of the controls that you would use in a project. The components are nice looking and pretty simple to work with. The documentation is lacking but I guess it is an open source community so that’s to be expected.
Take a look at the tools and see if they are helpful to you as well. Also, send me some recommendations!!
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