Recently Gmail added the New Feature of Smiley in Gmail Messages, now Gmail Labs lets you add two gadgets in the left sidebar: Google Calendar and Google Docs, so you can add events, see your agenda and open recently-edited documents. There’s also an experimental feature that lets you add any gadget by entering the address of its XML file, but I couldn’t find gadgets that work and look well.
The calendar gadget displays your latest entries in an agenda style while the documents gadget will show the latest used documents together with a search function. A third feature was also launched that allows you to add any other gadget by pasting the URL of the file. However, even the Google team admits that the third feature “isn’t very user friendly right now,” but hopefully we will see some improvements soon.
To make room for the gadgets, you could try these experimental features from Gmail Labs: Right-side chat, Right-side labels (move Gmail Chat and the list of labels in a right sidebar) and Navbar drag and drop (reorder containers).
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