{"id":20456,"date":"2024-04-18T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=20456"},"modified":"2024-04-18T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:55:17","slug":"use-your-inbox-as-a-running-task-list-this-tool-resurfaces-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/use-your-inbox-as-a-running-task-list-this-tool-resurfaces-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your inbox as a running task list? This tool resurfaces emails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve never been quiet about how much I love lists<\/a> \u2013 particularly to-do lists. It amazes me that people can function without them as I have never been one of those people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have personal to-do lists, monthly to-do lists, weekly to-do lists, work to-do lists, to-do lists for my pets and my home and my finances and it just never ends. But, it\u2019s how I stay organized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of my weekly work to-do lists (which I use my weekly planner for), I also use my work email as a means for a to-do list. There are separate folders for various communications (i.e. communication between staff; completed stories; HR\/payroll; etc.). So, if I keep something in my inbox, it means it needs to be tended to as it hasn\u2019t yet been filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, you might be thinking, \u201cOkay, she\u2019s an (organizational) freak.\u201d You\u2019re not wrong, and I often have that same thought. But, I\u2019ve been pleased to learn that others share this organizationally freakish tendency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take the creators of followup.fish<\/a>. This program bubbles up emails to the top of your inbox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does that mean? <\/strong>It means it\u2019s an email service that reminds you to follow up on emails by bubbling them back to the top of your inbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, great. How does it work? <\/strong>Well, when sending an email, add 3days@followup.fish to the BCC field. Three days later followup.fish will bubble the email thread back to the top of your inbox by sending a reminder email that’s only visible to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can change 3days to anything you want. It’s smart enough to recognize human language such as \u2018tomorrow,\u2019 \u2018april,\u2019 etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will it work with the email platform I use? <\/strong>Why, yes. It works with all email clients and services. No need to install any software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about privacy concerns? <\/strong>The service is designed such that you do not need to give access to your email account. It can only access the emails you send it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each email we only store your email address, the subject line, the date you sent the email, and the reminder date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the going rate for followup.fish?<\/strong> It\u2019s free for your first 100 emails. After that $99 per year for unlimited emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cool. How do I sign up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No need to sign up. You can start using it right away. Just start using the BCC feature right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that seems pretty simple. And, since the first 100 emails are free, it seems worth a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me, personally, I\u2019ve got a pretty streamlined thing going with my Outlook inbox so I\u2019ll continue to micromanage myself. But, for those not fully in \u201corganizational freak\u201d territory, there\u2019s plenty<\/a> of follow-up fish in the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emails pile up, and we often use our inboxes as an ongoing task list, but it can backfire when time sensitive info sinks to the bottom of the list – there’s a fix!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337355,"featured_media":20458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[433,1234],"class_list":["post-20456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-productivity","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/emails.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21077,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20456\/revisions\/21077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}