With  the launch of ‘Dont forget Bob‘, it doesn’t need a rocket scientist to deduce that Google has probably one of the most innovative email services on the planet. Since I am a regular user of Gmail and would like to see it improve even more, here’s my wishlist of features that I believe Gmail should have.

1. No ads based on mail

I know Google has a very strict privacy policy against storing personal information, especially information from my emails but still it would be great if it didn’t provide ads based on my mail. After all email is like a letter and sometimes a letter is personal and shouldn’t be read by anybody else, not even a machine. Having said that, I must insist that I am not against ads. Ads are absolutely necessary to run a free service. Its just that plain banners are good but not “smart” banners which displays ads according to my email.

2. Integrate it more with Orkut

GTalk is already there with Gmail and I, for one enjoy it thoroughly. But wouldn’t it be so much better if Orkut was integrated with Gmail as well. For instance, now we get an email alert for every new scrap left or friend request received. However, if we could view the scraps in a conversation fashion right here on Gmail and could also reply to it, it would be really awesome. Just imagine, a common platform for your email, social networking and chat purposes.

3. RSS all the way

I recently saw this feature on Rediffmail where you can add RSS feeds and even fetch scraps, stuff written on your wall, etc from social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and hi5. If Google could add this features to Gmail, make it a RSS feed reader as well, it would be great especially since most people read blogs and news sites via RSS feeds.

4. Integrate Google Calender and Gmail

Have you ever noticed that when you receive a message with a phone number on a smart phone, it automatically tags it and produces a link in the message itself for you to call that number. Why not port that idea to Gmail! Orkut has already been integrated with Google Calender. Similarly Gmail can be done as well. Whenever a date is found in an email, Gmail can (with some really mind blowing algorithm from the guys at Google) tag it and link it to Google Calender.

5. Ability to save a mail

Now I haven’t seen this feature in any email service I have used but I really think that this could be a good addition to any great service. More often than not it becomes necessary to save an email. Now saving the whole page is well… ugly. So what I do is get the print view and save that page. However, wouldn’t it be wonderful if Gmail had a feature to save it directly in a simple HTML or PDF file.

That sums up My Gmail Wishlist. What do you think is that one singular feature which should be added to Gmail? Drop your comments here.

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