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Re: Moo.do turns Gmail into a task management system

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Post by gwatters » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 11:33 PM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #17

This looks pretty cool, but I have a philosophical hangup about my task list being in email. The problem is that ones email inbox is a place where other people decide what shows up there. I realize that people have a lot of responsibilities in email, and for some people email may even be a majority of their job. I've definitely been in that position. But even if I am spending the majority of my time in Gmail, I still…

This sounds amazingly similar to the beginning of our post on Medium [1]. As you point out, email is only part of the whole picture. We're aiming to add the tools to organize email along with your personal/business todos without giving up that agency.

Snippet: "Would you use a todo list where all your tasks are created by someone else, and you can’t prioritize or rearrange them? Of course not — they’re your tasks, so you should be in control. Using a todo list sorted only by creation time would be incredibly frustrating. But that’s exactly what email is."

[1] https://medium.com/moo-do/were-making-email-a-powerful-todo-...

Re: Moo.do turns Gmail into a task management system

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Post by EuAndreh » Fri, Sep 02, 2016, 1:43 AM UTC

gwatters wrote: post #21

dasil003 wrote: post #17

This looks pretty cool, but I have a philosophical hangup about my task list being in email. The problem is that ones email inbox is a place where other people decide what shows up there. I realize that people have a lot of responsibilities in email, and for some people email may even be a majority of their job. I've definitely been in that position. But even if I am spending the majority of my time in Gmail, I still…

This sounds amazingly similar to the beginning of our post on Medium [1]. As you point out, email is only part of the whole picture. We're aiming to add the tools to organize email along with your personal/business todos without giving up that agency. Snippet: "Would you use a todo list where all your tasks are created by someone else, and you can’t prioritize or rearrange them? Of course not — they’re your tasks, so…

It really sounds like pg's suggestion to "replace email"[0].

I've never had (so far) any problem with managing my inbox, but since many can see the clear correlation between email todo list, I'd say you're on to something.

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Re: Moo.do turns Gmail into a task management system

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Post by nilkn » Tue, Sep 06, 2016, 1:18 AM UTC

zardeh wrote: post #2

What does this offer over and above inbox by gmail + google reminders?

I've used Inbox from Google since it launched and am now playing around with Moo.do.

Inbox sort of plays with the idea of building an organization tool on top of email. It focuses on emails being "done" or "not done", it lets you snooze emails to get to inbox zero, it lets you save links from the web as items in your inbox, and it lets you create reminders in your inbox that look like emails but aren't (streamlining the common action of emailing yourself some quick note).

Moo.do seems to take all of this further. Instead of just snoozing an email or letting it sit in your inbox, you can do several other things with it. You can create an outline and move the email into the outline as an action item, optionally assigning a due date as well. Or you can setup a kanban board like Trello and move the email to different columns. Moo.do will automatically derive an agenda from dates on your outline as well.