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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by Void_ on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:42AM (#30163992)
I'm building a new task manager. I'm aiming it to be like HEY of email apps - Kinda opinionated, but hopefully fits workflow for a lot of people.

https://focustask.app

Building this in my free time, and would love to talk to anyone who might be interesting in helping with either coding or with marketing.

My email is vojto at focustask.app

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by TrapLord_Rhodo on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:28AM (#30164858)
I find alot of my job as a consultant is assigning ownership to tasks, following up with clients, writing meeting notes, and pushing priorities.

I've never found a productivity app/ task manager for consultants. I would love the ability to self generate follow up emails based on tasks for another person.

I would love the functionality to assign tasks to another person in my task manager, and on the day those items are due ("analysis", "Documents", etc.) it automatically creates an email for me saying i'm following up on this task.

OR a 'these are the tasks i am currently working on' automated email. So during the meeting i can be inside the app, writing down deliverables from the meeting and at the end it will generate a meeting email with each deliverable and who the owner is. If i have a task for a certain date and the next day i sign on and don't check off the task, it will generate an email saying 'Hey, sorry have been swamped, working on X today/ will get you this on X day. '

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by balutdev on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:42PM (#30185167)
I wrote one, as a consultant, because nothing existed.

Captured time, tasks, and held key/values for documentation.

Every task was assigned, never open, and timecards were auto generated (and emailed to management)

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by tylerrobinson on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:33PM (#30173351)
Nice work on this and on the demo video as well! The keyboard shortcuts and visual interactions look polished. This is essentially how I think about my todos, too.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by iKenshu on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:38PM (#30166123)
This looks amazing, how can I help with marketing?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by sameer_hacker on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:06PM (#30173582)
Very cool. I am a dev and interested in collaborating. What's the tech stack like? How do I get in touch?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by karanbhangui on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:48AM (#30164062)
This looks really good! Signed up for waitlist :)
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? by wnolens on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:13AM (#30164496)
cool, also signed up for access.

This fits my mental model. I do it in a markdown document for work, and paper for personal.