Taskforce (YC W11) Helps You Organize Your Inbox and Become a Taskmaster

Their example of "Convert emails into tasks and clear your inbox" is amusing (<a href="http://www.taskforceapp.com/?v=original_ft" rel="nofollow">http://www.taskforceapp.com/?v=original_ft</a>):<p>&#62;from President Obama to me:<p>&#62;How are you? Was wondering if you could give me a quick intro to Julian Assange. Or even just his current address would be nice.

Forgive my ignorance, and no offense intended, but how is an email extension considered a startup, and furthermore: a YC startup?<p>I realize that it's useful, and a great product, and I'm not implying otherwise, but this model seems to stretch the startup concept very thin.

Congrats guys. I've been using Taskforce for about a month now and really liking it. The fact that it's right in gmail makes it really handy.

Yet another miraculous tool to help you organise your cluttered inbox.<p>If you havent mastered the skill in organising your life so your inbox doesnt take over your life, no tool is going to make that any better for you.<p>Its a delusion.

What's the revenue model? Ad supported, premium features later on, or something else?

This looks like a great idea, but wake me when there's an Outlook extension. Most people who would want to use this are using Outlook (or possibly Lotus Notes).

Looks excellent. One thing that would be way cool is Basecamp integration, like syncing milestones/to-dos to your inbox.

Taskforce is really nice, I've been using it, and it definitely makes my life better.

Sounds vaguely similar to <a href="http://www.activeinboxhq.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.activeinboxhq.com/</a>

A nice concept, and the collaboration aspect is great. But this won't get me away from the task management desktop apps I am used to.<p>The plugin has no concept of projects as far as I can tell, which could be by simply tagging in gmail. As it is, I can simply drag the gmail url to my current desktop application icon which creates a task.<p>Perhaps for someone whose only work related tasks come in through gmail, this would be an improvement over just tagging an email.<p>Even if it were my case, I cannot see myself relying this app. I moved away from Things to The Hit List because it had VIM-like keyboard controls, and am used to being able to move around in gmail with the keyboard as well. As far as I can tell, there are no keyboard controls for this plugin.

Sorry but I already do this using Google Priority,Tags(TODO, TO READ) and Filters. works great ! But cheers for the effort of doing something more integrated and better looking, keep it going :D<p>Hum... installed but it doesn't work, did all things and still nothing.

So does this work with Google apps for domains? I can't easily figure out how to enable it.

Seems they may be having some issues at the moment. Getting a lot of nginx 500 errors &#38; can't get anything to show up in gmail after installing the extension. I'll try again later.

I'm going to give this a whirl, but I don't see any integration with the tasks GMail already has, built-in, so I can't get them to my phone. If you can sync tasks with GMail, then the android app I bought will take care of that sync step, right?<p>Also, if I do end up sticking with this, please don't sell this and shut down the service, like etacts did (the last YC company to do a gmail add-on, IIRC), although I never used that much.

I'd probably pay to use this if it had Outlook integration.

Met Niccolo and Courtland at the Heyzap office around the time of startup school and I've been hooked since.<p>Congrats on the launch!

a few comments after using it for a couple of days (not on my primary account):<p>a. The privacy policy should be a little more clear about the data (if any) being accessed from Gmail. Email is something around which people (or just me) take privacy seriously. The privacy policy is well written (not canned legalese), but does not cover issues around what kinds of data is collected. Rapportive (<a href="http://rapportive.com/privacy" rel="nofollow">http://rapportive.com/privacy</a>), also a YC startup has a very fresh approach to privacy policies.<p>b. at least for me, one of the best things about gmail are the keyboard shortcuts. Sparrow (<a href="http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/</a>) does a great job of respecting gmail shortcuts.<p>c. Maybe they already have keyboard shortcuts, no way to know as there is no help or manual or faqs. (Not sure they need one either)

I guess I'm missing something, but nothing has changed in my gmail after installing the extension. I see no taskforce buttons. I even set my theme back to the default one hoping it would solve my "problem". Help?

I keep receiving this error when trying to use Taskforce "No response from server, Reload?":<p>screenshot <a href="http://cl.ly/1h3U3e0u2i012j1v081G" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/1h3U3e0u2i012j1v081G</a>

Is any of my data sent to Taskforce servers or leaked in any way?

/me adds a task in his existing task management system to try Taskforce once the "HN effect" dies down (500 internal server errors abound).

Seems to be loading very slow for me right now in Gmail. Maybe the Techcrunch attention has it crawling?

Someone needs to go down to their basement and reboot the mac mini that's running this thing ;)

The Link on Techcrunch appear to be broken, I'm getting a 500 error.

i'm still really keen to try this, but taskforce doesn't yet support mailplane. Looking forward to getting that email when it does! :)