Add notes to Gmail and sync with SimpleNote with this Raplet for Rapportive

Since yesterday I can add notes to all my emails in Gmail. And each note is also stored in SimpleNote, so I have access to each note in Gmail, SimpleNote and in desktop apps like Notational Velocity.

This functionally is something I’ve missed for a long time:

Every day I get emails with for example todos. ”Please fix these 5 things on this website”. Ok, cool. But how do I keep track of my progress in completing the tasks in this email? I used to create a todo-note in SimleNote. Fine. It works. But I loose the connection to the message in Gmail. So I used to paste the URL to the gmail message into the note. Fine. Works too. But what if I am in Gmail and looking at the email? Then I must search SimpleNote to see if I have any notes there for this specific message. Ok, it’s starting to get cumbersome. So I thought that ”Hey, can’t I use the same note in both SimpleNote and Gmail?”. And thanks to Rapportive and it’s Raplet-system it turns out that I actually could.

It’s great btw. Feels like magic. Works like magic.

Some screenshots of the Raplet in action:

The note as it looks in Gmail

…and the same note in the SimpleNote web app

..and the same note in Notational Velocity