[hammock]

Let's try a bit of wordsmithing.

Either stick to the 4 D's of GTD: Delete, Do, Delegate, Defer; or use the commonplace terms: Archive, Reply, Forward, Snooze. When you do this, do you start to realize how similar it looks to existing email clients?

By the way you say there is no Snooze button- then what is Defer?

And one-touch, not "single-touch."

[jdmichal]

If I'm reading it right, "defer" means you actually schedule an appointment in a calendar. I much rather prefer the idea of snoozing (a fixed delay before reappearing) better. If I'm not interested in dealing with something now, then I'm also not really interested in vetting calendar space for it at that exact moment either.

[krrrh]

In GTD parlance defer doesn't require a calendar appointment, it just means 'don't do right now'. Basically if a task takes more than 2 minutes to do but you intend to do it at some point, then it should not interrupt processing, but should be moved from an inbox to a 'trusted system' for organizing and tracking tasks.

Snoozing works ok, but strict GTD tries to build a discipline of not having items re-appear in the inbox. If it's moved to a list of things to handle, then it can be ignored or placed at a lower priority on that list.

[shostack]

Any suggestions for a Gmail user on how to best integrate "Snooze-like" functionality into my workflow?

[michaelfavia]

Google offers Inbox which has built in snooze. I used it for 6 months or so and liked it. Lack of ICS support eventually soured me on the interface.

[galvin]

Boomerang (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) seems okay. I've been using it for a couple of weeks now.