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Re: Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list

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Post by palderson » Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 1:42 AM UTC

I'm a big fan of creating task lists, however, I don't think anyone's going to solve this problem by making the user do the work, no matter how nice the design.

There was once an Australian company called Liaise, which went a long way toward automating the task creation process by automatically identifying action requests within email. To me, this is what I imagine the future of this activity will look like. Here's an old Liaise demo video, which may help illustrate the point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyrWD7hTnFc

Re: Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list

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Post by presty » Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 3:35 AM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #6

I'm curious why this is using a Kickstarter project. Maybe I'm jaded as a developer, but with only a $4k ask I would say build it, sell it, and ship it. I'm not going to trust that you can build a good mobile app until I can use it myself.

I would say it's for the marketing and a way to see what's the market acceptance.

It's a trend I've been noticing

Re: Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list

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Post by taskboxandrew » Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 4:21 AM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #6

I'm curious why this is using a Kickstarter project. Maybe I'm jaded as a developer, but with only a $4k ask I would say build it, sell it, and ship it. I'm not going to trust that you can build a good mobile app until I can use it myself.

To clarify, our target is 30k not 4k. However our goal with Kickstarter is primarily to build a community of positive, supportive users that are interested in helping us shape the product.

Re: Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list

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Post by taskboxandrew » Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 4:23 AM UTC

jrajav wrote: post #13

andymitchell wrote: post #12

This space of "handle tasks in email" is starting to explode since pg called it as a giant opportunity. Indeed, I believe Mail Pilot are launching their public beta soon - the timing makes me think these guys were (savvily, tbf) trying to jump in alongside it. It's not just another "todo list", it's really dealing with the pain of remembering the promises you make in email, and the fact email is used to discuss all t…

Email has been very closely integrated with task management in Outlook for a while now. On the same note, I've been hoping that Google would flesh out Google Tasks for a while now -- technically Tasks ties in with Gmail and Google Calendar already, but that integration is fairly primitive, and Tasks is still missing extremely basic things like search, labels, and a usable (non-widget) UI in Gmail. Of all the projects…

True that Outlook has excellent task management functionality, but not when you want to interact with non-outlook users, or even simply across corporate networks.

Re: Taskbox - Turn your inbox into a task list

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Post by jacalata » Sat, Sep 29, 2012, 3:24 PM UTC

In fact, 80% of users move email messages out of their inbox and into folders while at their desk

I'd like to know where they got that number: it's nothing like the numbers that I've heard elsewhere, although it might be closer if they're including any action that moves email out of the inbox (like gmail 'archive').