Forums/Feature Requests
Adding a task by email
Robert Bird
suggested this on February 18, 2011 21:11
It would be great if I could add a task to my board by sending an email.
So I would love to be able to forward emails that require an action to my list automatically. I could even give my colleagues and also my manager an email address so that if they need something from me then they can add it to my list automatically. Maybe I could even give my manager a login to have some control over ordering the priority of my backlog (hmm maybe not:-)
In the email you would need to specifiy some of the fields i.e. title and description (subject and message body maybe). I would then want to have a setting for a board to choose the column that these tasks fall into. i.e. I may have a new column where I pick them up and process them by assigning a priority, category and estimate.
Also, maybe a public view of the dashboard would be good, although you would probably want to mark tasks as public.
P.S. I've just started using your site to manage my personal workload. I have to say I love it so far! Great work, this site looks great and is going to be a really useful tool
Comments
We've begun work on this feature today.
It's live. You can find the email address on the first tab of the board settings. Just make sure you email the board from the same email account you use with Kanbanery. The subject of the email becomes the title and the content of the email becomes the description of the task. Email attachments become task attachments.
Thank you for adding this feature to Kanbanery. I'm going to ask for another feature request, you probably anticipated this one coming: I'd like the ability for Kanbanery to receive new tasks from a set of email addresses that I as the user can specify. The reason I am asking for this feature is that I'd like the ability to send tasks from MS Outlook from work as well as from home/smartphone email accounts. Right now, the single email address is a restriction to my workflow.
I agree to that it would be nice to be independent of the email address that belongs to your account. I would rather see any email address to be able to send cards, and that the owner would be unknown...