My 14 days with this amazing product

What are the best aspects of this product?

Works inside my email, no need to go back and forth, allows me to organize everything without actually leaving my email, it even allows me to reply to emails from within the app. It has a very good design and it has some interesting featues already. For a new app its impressive.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

But has some flaws:

- Grouping cards is really good, but needs to have option to condensate view - Imagine that you group cards from a project that is running, easily you can have 10-15 different threads, this will take a huge amount of space in a list, you need to be able to condensate all the cards and see only the title (eventually some small icons indicating if there’s attachmenus and other info) . Making a list for each project is not an option when you have dozens of projects.

What features/services would you like to see in future versions of this product?

- Mobile web apps are good enough but need some work, search doesn't appear when in portrait mode.

- Create labels , you need to be able to create labels, not only apply them.

- Option to import lists from existing labels in Gmail

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

I will tell you my story, in a short way. I am not an IT profssional, I am an entrepreneur working between 3 companies and dozes of projects at the same time. None of my companies are related to IT.
A few weeks ago I decided to review and change the way I was organizing myself and my work. I reached to a point where I had (still have, working on it) literally hundreds of emails to reply, and often found myself replying to people 2 months after, it started to become really difficult. I had been searching for a very long time for an app/software that could integrate my emails, notes and file storage. You see, I tried a lot of stuff, Evernote (I am a premium user for 8 years now), Trello, Meistertask, Todoist, Asana, Planner, OneNote, and others. Maybe because I am unorganized by nature I had difficulties in sticking to something. The problem was that I simply had no time to go always back and forth from emails to trello,, then some notes in Evernote, and then some files in Drive..etc.. I ended up every time with everything spread everywhere . A very simple example is, You receive a reply in that email conversation that you know it's important to add in the same place where you had put the files and notes related to that subject, and you had to manually add it and keep it updated (every time you receive a reply) for future reference because you know you are going to need it and also that you need to be able to find it fast. I simply had no time for that, if at least I could copy a link to that email and put it in my notes , so when I need it it would open the conversation thread up to date, but not even that was possible.

So I decided to lose some features and simply use my gmail account as the center of my organization, 80% of my inputs arrive by email, so if I could use some use of the labels I could try to organize myself and not loosing time going back and forth wasting huge amounts of time to have all th info up to date. Not perfect but saves time. So I forward all my 7 email accounts (d0n't ask me, it’s complicated) to gmail, created aliases, templates for signatures for the different aliases and started something fresh, having everything in the same place.

Then, trying to optimize a few things , I was searching for productivity hacks for gmail, being a fan of kanban, I found FLOW-E, still has a long way to go but is a brilliant approach.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes