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Convert your emails to actions in one click

24 points by niccolop 16y ago

markbao 16y ago
Wow, I can't tell you how much you need this. It's ridiculous how many emails I make a mental note for getting back to and then completely forgetting them. (Sorry if you were a victim of my short term email memory loss, just bother me again)
- RossM 16y ago
  I get around this by archiving emails as I complete them. If completing them just means reading them then they get archived immediately. If I need to refer to them later in the week I just leave them in my inbox. If my inbox gets bigger than 15 emails then I'm doing something wrong :) I have Taskforce installed but haven't found it benefiting me yet.
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anthropocentric 16y ago
I'm totally confused about how this works. The blog post and the home page didn't clear it up for me. Integrates with Gmail? What does Broadcast mean in this context? What do you mean, in your blog post, when you say you can now "archive the task". Confused. Am I the only one?
- ryanf 16y ago
  It's a "Getting Things Done" thing, I think. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-get... The relevant idea is that you take the stuff coming into your inbox (which represents obligations that you need to take care of, in theory) and then immediately convert it into something like a to-do list.
  - jamesbritt 16y ago
    Right. But how, exactly, does it work? Can I use Thunderbird? Outlook Express? Gmail? Is mail, or anything else, stored on some other site? Does it work on all platforms? All browsers?
    - niccolop 16y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. I understand your point about it being unclear. Right now you can use Taskforce within Gmail. We are looking to do outlook and other email clients. The emails are stored (archived). In terms of browsers we currently support: Firefox and Chrome, and we are looking to do safari soon. We are creating an app that should help you deal with your overloaded inbox, by allowing you to create tasks from emails (thereby hopefully allowing you to archive if you like); and turning 'broadcast' emails from: twitter, linkedin, facebook, CC's (as we define broadcast - not necessarily directed at you but notifications) you've been included on and turning them into an 'activity' feed. This combination of tools, we think should reduce the amount of unread emails in your inbox.
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apowell 16y ago
I'm unlikely to switch from Things to Taskforce, but I would pay for a Gmail->Things "Convert to Task" button.
speek 16y ago
I built a prototype of something that had the general idea of this for myself (I have no short term memory, I mark off emails to get back to), but wasn't so well integrated with gmail. I'm excited to play around with something that looks so awesome.
zackattack 16y ago
i'm glad you built this, however, i would appreciate it if your app integrated with a todolist of my choice (and then used an open api to swap data freely). it's bad for productivity to use email and todolist in the same place. thanks.
talonx 16y ago
This feature seems to be required by so many people that I'm surprised that few desktop apps actually provide it. Thunderbird does, with its Lightning (and Google calendar) extension. The still-not-ready-for-widespread-use Chandler (http://chandlerproject.org/ http://chandlerproject.org/) project was another attempt at this.
ebtalley 16y ago
The page looked pretty good in chrome which had me thinking about what it would look like in IE8. Big Surprise, not so good. Depending on your market you might want to add some IE aware CSS.
aneth 16y ago
I star (gmail feature) emails that are actionable. Archive the rest. Then work through the starred emails as part of my daily run. I'm not sure what value this app ads over that system other than allowing me to add my summary in the task name.
- niccolop 16y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. Taskforce is meant to allow you to stop staring items, create tasks, eliminating them from your inbox (by archiving them for example). Eliminating 'broadcast' emails is also another very useful feature, in our opinion.

24 points by niccolop 16y ago

Wow, I can't tell you how much you need this. It's ridiculous how many emails I make a mental note for getting back to and then completely forgetting them. (Sorry if you were a victim of my short term email memory loss, just bother me again)

RossM 16y ago
I get around this by archiving emails as I complete them. If completing them just means reading them then they get archived immediately. If I need to refer to them later in the week I just leave them in my inbox. If my inbox gets bigger than 15 emails then I'm doing something wrong :) I have Taskforce installed but haven't found it benefiting me yet.

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anthropocentric 16y ago

I'm totally confused about how this works. The blog post and the home page didn't clear it up for me. Integrates with Gmail? What does Broadcast mean in this context? What do you mean, in your blog post, when you say you can now "archive the task". Confused. Am I the only one?

ryanf 16y ago
It's a "Getting Things Done" thing, I think. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-get... The relevant idea is that you take the stuff coming into your inbox (which represents obligations that you need to take care of, in theory) and then immediately convert it into something like a to-do list.
- jamesbritt 16y ago
  Right. But how, exactly, does it work? Can I use Thunderbird? Outlook Express? Gmail? Is mail, or anything else, stored on some other site? Does it work on all platforms? All browsers?
  - niccolop 16y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. I understand your point about it being unclear. Right now you can use Taskforce within Gmail. We are looking to do outlook and other email clients. The emails are stored (archived). In terms of browsers we currently support: Firefox and Chrome, and we are looking to do safari soon. We are creating an app that should help you deal with your overloaded inbox, by allowing you to create tasks from emails (thereby hopefully allowing you to archive if you like); and turning 'broadcast' emails from: twitter, linkedin, facebook, CC's (as we define broadcast - not necessarily directed at you but notifications) you've been included on and turning them into an 'activity' feed. This combination of tools, we think should reduce the amount of unread emails in your inbox.
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apowell 16y ago

I'm unlikely to switch from Things to Taskforce, but I would pay for a Gmail->Things "Convert to Task" button.

speek 16y ago

I built a prototype of something that had the general idea of this for myself (I have no short term memory, I mark off emails to get back to), but wasn't so well integrated with gmail. I'm excited to play around with something that looks so awesome.

zackattack 16y ago

i'm glad you built this, however, i would appreciate it if your app integrated with a todolist of my choice (and then used an open api to swap data freely). it's bad for productivity to use email and todolist in the same place. thanks.

talonx 16y ago

This feature seems to be required by so many people that I'm surprised that few desktop apps actually provide it. Thunderbird does, with its Lightning (and Google calendar) extension. The still-not-ready-for-widespread-use Chandler (http://chandlerproject.org/ http://chandlerproject.org/) project was another attempt at this.

ebtalley 16y ago

The page looked pretty good in chrome which had me thinking about what it would look like in IE8. Big Surprise, not so good. Depending on your market you might want to add some IE aware CSS.

aneth 16y ago

I star (gmail feature) emails that are actionable. Archive the rest. Then work through the starred emails as part of my daily run. I'm not sure what value this app ads over that system other than allowing me to add my summary in the task name.

niccolop 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Taskforce is meant to allow you to stop staring items, create tasks, eliminating them from your inbox (by archiving them for example). Eliminating 'broadcast' emails is also another very useful feature, in our opinion.