The emails that pile up in my inbox often seem to concern things that I want to do in principle but not in practice. So I have a hard time deleting them or saying "no," but I also don't actually really want to do what's needed. Who else has this problem (or a solution to it)?
The solution is to build the todo-list app that email is currently being misused to simulate. Eventually some startup will do this.
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Google inbox pre-shutdown?
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Like an outlook add-on that you can click to file an email directly into your to do list? Gets it out of your inbox but keeps it top of mind
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I want a todo list that is a layer above both calendar and email. Your calendar should be filled with tasks you want to get done. Emails to process are subtasks within that. It's like an inbox transpose
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That was google inbox for me.
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Another possibility is that the email is the first step in the wrong direction of being able to create, too easily, items in other people's Todo lists.
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One fundamental difference between the physical world and the email, is that if you are very busy it will be hard to load you or more Todo items. People will you will see. It will be hard to reach you at the phone. Email gives no insights on the load of the recipient.
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that'd be hard for a lot of people to take seriously. Todo apps the the quintessential boring demo app for UI frameworks. What killer feature would need to be layered on to achieve mass adoption? Maybe just making it part of MS office or G suite?
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The point is that the current todo programs aren’t usable. The startup that solves this problem would need to have an idea about how to make it so helpful that people want to use it. I don’t know what that idea is.
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It's a behavioral science conundrum. Procrastinators tend to be the people who most need to-do lists...but they are procrastinators.
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Inbox--->s3 bucket Use S3 policies to control who/when/how many times people can put things in your inbox, etc. You can block abuse by managing policies. Just in case some startup is reading this.
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The backend can leverage Taskwarrior, which is amazing. Add tags for projects or people. Has priority scores. The .task directory contains JSON you can version control with git or s3 versioned buckets.
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