TASK - Look inside Zinbox #1
The simplicity of kanban for revolutionary inbox task management
A new email just landed in your inbox. In some cases, it’s something you do not care too much about, like some newsletter or ‘bacn’. In many cases though, email is something you actively have to do something about.
A client asks you to amend some details of a design, a proposal, whatever. A friend forwards you a cool article you wanna read but don’t have the time right now. A site warns you that you should change your password after a security leak incident.
In these cases, email is not just an email. It’s an item added to your ‘to do’ list. Whenever we talked to others about their email habits, this was a painful point.
Nowadays, many people feel the need for external aid to help them get over their piling tasks faster. Countless apps and web tools emerged; Wunderlist, Flow, Google Tasks, you name it.
The contemporary version of the ‘kanban’ method is an especially trending tool in personal productivity tracking. (See products like Trello, for example.)
Simple-looking cards that you can move as you progress with your duties - it’s the zen garden of task management. (Kudos to the Japanese fathers of the technique.)
Yet in most cases, you still need to make a virtual leap between your inbox and your productivity app.
At Zinbox, we thought: if emails and our daily to do-s are intertwined so much, why not combine the two? And by combining, we mean staying in your inbox, without the hassle of exporting data or jumping back and forth.
We came up with an integrated task management system: with simple logics and an even more simple yet beautiful layout.
Imagine it: you read a mail in your inbox. You tick a small icon indicating that you have to do something about it - so you won’t forget for sure. It’s copied to your personal kanban table within your inbox. As you make progress, you can move the task from the ‘To do’ board to ‘Doing’ and ultimately, ‘Done’.
We even added some extras for you. For example, you can click on any of your contacts to see what kind of tasks you’ve had related to them lately. You can also ‘convert’ any mail into a task while you are reading it and you can edit its progress with a handy slide bar any time.
Even for productivity jedis who wish to keep on using their favourite external task management app, it’s so much easier to mark mails as they read them and use the automatically generated list as an input.
We hope we can make your life easier one email at a time. That’s what kept us working so hard lately.
We invite you to come and try Zinbox for free and discover more handy features like our Smart Data Library with an overview of all your attachments.
Have a nice mail!