Over time I’ve managed to get my iGoogle homepage set up as a “one-stop shop” for the things I use frequently. Below is a screenshot and info on how to configure the gadgets (for anyone who might find it useful).

You’ll notice the big Google logo and search box have been removed, I used the Super iGoogle user script to do this.

Here are the gadgets I’m using, from left to right…

1. Betwittered plus Greasemonkey hacks to make it bigger and pack in more info.
2. Google Calendar (handy hint: use their SMS alerts to set yourself reminders when you’re on the go)
3. Gmail - filtered view (based on iframe gadget). The intention of this is to try and show unread mail from real people (as opposed to mailing lists etc) so I have filters set up to tag stuff from robots as “mailing_lists”. The URL of the iframe gadget is actually a mobile link to a search: “to:me in:inbox is:unread -label:mailing_lists”.

Title link:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?source=navclient-ff#search/to%3Ame+in%3Ainbox+is%3Aunread+-label%3Amailing_lists (to link to the Javascript-enabled equivalent)
Iframe URL:
http://mail.google.com/mail/x/?ie=UTF-8&s=q&q=to%3Ame+in%3Ainbox+is%3Aunread+-label%3Amailing_lists&nvp_site_mail=Search+Mail&f=1

4. Google Reader
5. Facebook
6. Remember the Milk - configured for Inbox view
7. iframe gadget with frequently used links - this is actually pointing to the web view of a Google Doc.

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