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June 29, 2005
Gee! (your app smells terrific)
The worst part of having multiple e-mail addresses is keeping on top of new messages without spending every waking moment checking each account in sequence. That's why I love Gee!, a functional little GMail notifier for Mac OS X.
Gee (I'm going to stop exclaiming it) checks GMail's Atom feed for my messages and updates a small blue circle in the menubar with the count of new ones. Pretty standard, but Gee goes one louder: clicking on the circle drops down a list of the senders' addresses (or subject, or a combination depending on preference) so that I can quickly tell the difference between spam and an important message without pulling up GMail itself. If that's not enough, Gee also lets me reset the counter so I can choose to ignore it until something newer comes in.
That combination of simple features provides the best attention-span booster I've had in weeks. Of course, I just blew any productivity gain by blogging about it, but I had to share the love.
Posted by Chris at June 29, 2005 09:45 AM