Andy Mitchell (creator of Bumble Search) was kind to give me last night a testdrive of the new release of GTDGmail (first review over here).

After a few small releases, this one is a leap forward on the right direction and focuses more on GUI and usability. Among the enhancements brought:

• Collapsable GTD Labels - my favourite. Now you can add more projects to your Gmail without the fear of having to scroll too much to locate a specific one
• Collapsable GTD Labels - for quick access now you have a dropdown menu on top of your mails that helps you select GTD items. Perhaps an option to customize this menu would be great to see in a future release (show only projects for example)..is already implemented
• Conversation Notes - allows you to use at the maximum the threaded feature of Gmail and permits the user to add notes (reminders or to do lists for example) in a conversation. Useful for those that have reactions to some emails but just want to through in notes without actuall sending an email to the conversation partner(s)
• Now you have a button for composing tasks and you don’t have to hit compose. Useful for those that missed this neat feature on previous releases
• Keyboard shortcuts - even though I am not a big fan of those I’ll bet that there are lots of power users that will be happy to have them

More about this release on the GTDGmail blog.
Keep in mind that this powerful extension is donationware now and the developers really deserve your support for their great work.
The official release will be available to the public on 23rd October, but if you cannot resist the temptation you can have it if you become a suporter and donate. As for how much…I’ll quote Andy:

That is your choice! However, we would politely ask it is a ‘worthwhile’ amount to cover sundries like fees and handling (getting you setup for early release)

Note: GTDGmail works by default (no hacks needed) on both Firefox and Flock