Todoist has a feature where you can forward email to a special address and it becomes a TODO:
Turn your emails into Todoist tasks by forwarding them to a project. When you forward an email, the subject line will become the task name, and the body of the email will be added as an attachment in a comment.
Given the overlap between emails and TODO items, that makes sense to me. I use Things myself, and hearing about this made me look and see if they have the feature, and lo-and-behold they do. I think this will be a nice little benefit for me, where instead of letting an email linger in the inbox (where I’ll see and think about it too often until it’s done), I can kick it over to Things. I’ll still deal with it, it will just prevent me from overly staring at it and occupying an unfair number of mental cycles.
I actually heard it from Todoist’s announcement that they slapped some AI into the feature. Sure? I guess? More interesting to me was the thinking behind how to integrate AI into Todoist. The more “invisible” it is, the better the feature feels, essentially. Which is a whole new thing to worry about.
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