RememberTheMilk: First to go offline with Google Gears

A few weeks back I wrote about Google announcing Gears an open source browser extension available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.

Well now Remember the Milk (RTM - rememberthemilk.com) the online to-do-list has implemented Gears, thus enabling people to read their task lists offline! In the picture below you can see the green icon next to my login name which is the option to change into offline mode in the same way you can already do with Google Reader.

Clearly GMail misses a good native to-do-list feature, the only option right now is to install Andy’s GTDGmail add-in script. Looking at Remember The Milk it is certainly very simple yet useful and more so now given you can read/write tasks offline.

Looking at the product they already integrate with Google Maps and I guess it wouldn’t take too much work to integrate with GCal (via iCal), Contacts and GMail itself. Maybe Google will buy Remember The Milk next or maybe they will finally integrate JotSpot and make it equally useful and available offline.

Of course there are many other similar 3rd party applications that would equally benefit from Google Gears such 37Signals BaseCamp, Campfire, HighRise, Salesforce.com to name but a few.

Source: Vecosys.com