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Good idea :)

Extra interaction via email (or for that matter, IM or SMS) is something that we've been thinking about.

Anyone have further suggestions on how they'd like to be able to interact with their tasks via email/IM/SMS?

Posted 7 years ago

being able to add/delete notes?

Posted 7 years ago

Yes, via email.

Posted 7 years ago

I think it would be better to add the command to the e-mail body because this is more consistent with the way you add tasks via e-mail (where you, for example, enter "Due: in 2 days" in the e-mail body to set the due date).

So here's the scenario as I imagine it: RTM sends me an e-mail that a task is due today. I am too busy to work on it just now, so I hit the reply button and add the following line to the top of the e-mail body:

Postpone: 2 days

This sets a new due date for the day after tomorrow (relative to the date when I actually send the e-mail, not the original due date, because in some cases I may not process the reminder e-mail on the same day it was sent). You should be able to use anything here (instead of "2 days") that you can enter as a due date when you post a new task via e-mail.

RTM should ignore anything else in the reply because the original reminder text will still be in the e-mail.

To make it easier for RTM to connect the reply to the task in question, the subject line of reminder e-mails should be a little more specific and mention the actual task title (which is something that would be useful anyway and has already been suggested in other forum posts). If it is easier to compute, it would be perfectly OK for me if the subject line contained a number or some other unique identifier for the task.

Best regards
Hendrik

Posted 7 years ago

heathweaver

I agree with Hendrik about being able to respond to reminders. But it should be also be possible for tasks that aren't due, where you can just send an email to postpone something.

Posted 7 years ago

five years gone, nothing changed ... but it's still a good idea

Posted 1 year ago