Hello, friends!


Hello, friends! Thanks to the help from mighty Alex Kapranoff we're close to adding the 'Email-in tasks' feature to Checkvist. Right now we're testing it on http://beta.checkvist.com
It should work pretty easy: 
1. Decide which list will serve as an 'inbox' for you.
2. Get the list's email address from the 'Add tasks via email' dialog window under the list's name.
3. Add the address to your contact list.
4. When you send an email to that address, its subject line becomes the task's text, the body becomes the note, attachments are attached to the task (if you're PRO). You can also add #tags, ^due dates and @assignees to the subject line.

Any feedback is very much appreciated! We plan to update the main server in a couple of days, so if you see any glitches or bugs, we might be able to fix them before the release :)

Comments

  1. Shayne Champlin (shaynechamplin)29 July 2013 at 13:27

    Just tried it out and it worked like a charm so far.  It didn't maintain the styling of my email, but I don't know if it is supposed to.   Great job so far.

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  2. Ricardo Salta29 July 2013 at 16:08

    Awesome - will likely use it intensively in replacement of another system I've been using so far.

    But must say, it will be really really perfect when I can send tasks by email as subtasks of a specific task on a certain list. As it is it will still require more manual work than I would love.

    But thanks, it's great! :)

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  3. Ricardo Salta29 July 2013 at 16:11

    Also it would be great to be able to select if the new items will go to the top or the bottom  of a destination. For some things you want FIFO, for others you want LIFO... or whatever it's called. You know what I mean! :)

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  4. Olli Savolainen30 July 2013 at 02:10

    Sweeeet.

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  5. Philippe Demoulin30 July 2013 at 04:27

    Thanks. I second Ricardo Salta idea, especially in the context where (as in my case) Checkvist is used as an outliner. It would be great for me to have in a list a specific high level task under which I can stack up several email invoices as you've pgmed.
    But this new feature is already awesome !

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  6. Checkvist31 July 2013 at 14:14

    Hello, and thanks a lot for your comments! Adding emails under a specific task seems a good idea, though just as you say it's a bit of enhancement to the main functionality. 
    We're going to update the server now (there are some more fixes and enhancements waiting to be published), and leave that 'context task support' for later updates. May be after we've used the feature, we'll have some more fixes and polishing in our to-do list :)

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  7. Shayne Champlin (shaynechamplin)1 August 2013 at 12:55

    Would it be possible to maintain some of the formatting of the email body in the note in checkvist.  

    It would be great if it could at least maintain line breaks in the email.

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  8. Checkvist1 August 2013 at 13:27

    Shayne Champlin Do you have Markdown enabled? If so, this is probably the reason why linebreaks are ignores. 
    Probably, we could "fix" the linebreaks by adding extra spaces at the end of each line while processing e-mail body.

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  9. John Winstanley5 August 2013 at 05:39

    This is a great improvement and thanks to Alex Kapranoff and the Checkvist team for adding this.

    Is it possible to use this feature on more than one list? What I mean is can I have 2 or more email 'contacts' that send items to different lists?

    For example is it possible to have one contact called 'cv - work' and one called 'CV - personal' and send items to either?

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  10. Checkvist5 August 2013 at 06:06

    John Winstanley Sure! Every list has its own address, so you can add a contact for each list you want send emails to.

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  11. Checkvist14 August 2013 at 05:33

    Shayne Champlin We've improved e-mail formatting in notes (it was rather ugly when Markdown mode was enabled). Please let us know if it looks better for you.

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  12. Shayne Champlin (shaynechamplin)14 August 2013 at 05:51

    Thanks a lot guys! I'll let you know soon once I've checked it out.

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  13. Olli Savolainen14 August 2013 at 13:05

    After thinking about this a bit, this would go against my workflow of gathering a bunch of tasks offline, separated by two line breaks, and then sending them as batch. Being able to have a list of tasks in the message body would be more useful in this scenario. The mobile web UI is enough for me though at this point, this would just serve as a backup solution.

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  14. Checkvist15 August 2013 at 03:00

    Thanks for the feedback, Olli Savolainen ! A drawback with your current workflow is that you cannot attach a picture to your list items. Currently, we're working on a mobile HTML5 app which would combine benefits of allowing multiple task creation and attaching files.

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