Santa didn’t quite fulfill my Christmas request for a little more toolbar space, but he did deliver something equally wonderous to my web browser for Christmas.

I’ve been a long time user of Remember the Milk, which is a great website for reminding me to do things, except for the fact I can never remember what it’s called. Aside from that, it’s utter bliss in list making - I can make separate lists for work, projects and home, and get reminders if I want them. If my husband could be bothered to join, I could nag him remind him to take out the rubbish without ever opening my mouth because you can schedule tasks to repeat, and share them with other RTM users, too. Even if it isn’t as nicely styled as something like Basecamp, the user interface is more clean and very straightforward, too, which I always appreciate.

However, I have not used it religiously because I set my web browser’s home page to the far more critical Gmail, so RTM required me to remember to open a new tab in my browser to access it. Until today:

Yee-yippee-haw. Remember the Milk now integrates with Gmail. I can create new tasks, assign them to lists, edit their due dates, and mark them as done right in my regular Gmail window. This is similar to what finally got me on the Twitter boat: it also works in Gmail and I don’t need another application - or in this case, another tab. Hurrah.

I am extremely organised but pathologically forgetful, so I’m really hoping this convergence will set me up for a more productive 2008. If Gmail could somehow remind me what day of the week it is, I’d be all set.

Also new to my Gmail is Better Gmail 2, which does nice things to your Gmail interface like showing different icons for different types of attachments, showing you your unread mail count in the tab title, and using https for more secure mail, etc. This extension is only available for Firefox, which just proves what I’ve said all along: God loves a nice API.