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Task.li turns emails into shared task lists for you
- petenixey 14y agoThis is cool but I'm wondering - has anyone ever found that the whole "bcc the system" thing works out in the long run?
- gr2m 14y agoWe're here to stay ;-) Would you mind to share the other services that come to your mind but didn't make it in the long run? I'd be very interested, because I don't know any
- petenixey 14y agosorry I didn't mean that the service didn't work out, just the use of the bcc format. Highrise and Basecamp are two things I've tried but which I just end up forgetting to bcc in the end
- epaga 14y agoVery cool, I love how simple it works - especially since "action point" emails after meetings look almost exactly like your example. The whole email thing reminds me of good old "I Want Sandy" http://boingboing.net/2007/11/14/i-want-sandy-perfect.html http://boingboing.net/2007/11/14/i-want-sandy-perfect.html
- gr2m 14y agoOh nice, I didn't know about Sandy yet! But I thing it goes in a different direction: Sandy tried to be your personal assistant if I get it right, we rather try to help you and your collaborators to keep the oversight of tasks when email is the lowest common denominator.
- aeurielesn 14y agoI am not sure if the OP owns the site. But, just in case I will report this here: I suppose I am not the only one to notice this. But the email of lisa doesn't match in both images. From right to left: lisa@company.com to lisa@company.org. I like this idea and I may even consider doing something like someday for my own private projects.
- joshka 14y agoHave you considered another email address rather than mail@task.li perhaps task@task.li so it's really easy to autofill? Why Bcc rather than Cc? What do the collaborators see? How secure is this?
- gr2m 14y agoHey Joshka, thanks for the feedback! > Have you considered another email address rather than mail@task.li perhaps task@task.li so it's really easy to autofill That's actually a great idea. I've just added task@task.li next to mail@task.li, so both work now > Why Bcc rather than Cc? Both work, you can even use To if you want to send a task list to yourself > What do the collaborators see The collaborators do get your original email, and then the follow up email that you get as well. > How secure is this? As secure as email.
- thomaslutz 14y agoThere seems to be a issue if you send the email to yourself (tried that and got the message that my email caused a server issue, uh oh). They are already looking into it.
- gr2m 14y agoYeah, sorry for that, Thomas! Just for your information: The problem is not that you've sent the email to yourself, it's something else. I'll keep you posted.
- gr2m 14y agoProblem resolved, thanks for the support!
- thomaslutz 14y agoCan you tell what the problem was? I still haven't got the followup email.
- gr2m 14y agoThe problem was related to attachements, I think in your particular case it was an image in your email signature.
- deweller 14y agoI also sent an email as a test and didn't get any response. [update] Just arrived. Appears to be running a little slow is all.
- bennyschudel 14y agoThanks for the update! Yeah, we see some mails running a bit slow at the moment. That should improve soon. We are still fine tuning our architecture.
- holychiz 14y agogreat idea. Can you please enable a couple of sub-task level to make it really useful, similar to Google Task? where does collaborators edit the list? you're off to a great start. keep up the good work!
- gr2m 14y agoThanks for the nice feedback & your suggestions, so encouraging! > Can you please enable a couple of sub-task level to make it really useful, similar to Google Task? We do not plan to add sub tasks at the moment. In general, we do not try to outfeature other task apps out there. We try to be better than email at first, so we have to keep it as simple and natural as possible. > where does collaborators edit the list? Everyone who knows the secret URL of a task list can edit it
- holychiz 14y agothanks for the decisive response. :) no subtasks is a no-go for me. i get your thoughts about features growth, just wouldn't work w/ my work flow so I'll wait 'til you guys come around. :)
- yawniek 14y agofast, simple, gorgeous. well done
- gr2m 14y agowow, thanks so much for the nice feedback! We really appreciate it!
- duck 14y agoGreat idea! What do you use to handle the incoming emails?
- bennyschudel 14y agoThanks, glad you like it! We're currently using http://www.mailgun.com/ http://www.mailgun.com/, but we also want to test the alternatives. It's all about the speed for us. If anyone has made experiences or could point us to a review, that'd be really great