New in Gmail Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets

Gmail team has launched a few Labs experiments that let you add gadgets to the left-nav, next to Chat and Labels.

To get you started, they have worked with the engineers from the Calendar and Docs teams on two highly requested features: a simple way to see your Google Calendar agenda and get an alert when you have a meeting, and a gadget that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs and lets you search across all of your documents right from within Gmail.


There's a third Lab that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml).

A couple of notes:

(1) Try out Anatol's Navbar drag and drop Labs feature so you can easily re-order all the boxes on Gmail's left hand side.

(2) Not all gadgets are fully compatible with https, so if you're connecting to Gmail via https, you may see mixed content warnings caused by parts of the gadgets being served over http.

Read the complete post at Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets