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Create-by-email

A lot of time at this stage of the project goes into the ‘invisible’ stuff like server config, memory leaks, small fixes here and there. So, some of last week was taken by this.

But one relatively big thing was introduced last week – the app is now able to receive emails and turn them into tasks.

How it works: you send an email to task@task.ly and put the task text/tag/date into the subject field. You can leave the body blank, but if you put something in there (like a forwarded email) the app will put it in a comment tied to the task. Right now, it only takes the plain text from the message, but soon we’ll be able to handle attachments and html.

As a good side effect, the create-by-email thing made task.ly a bit more mobile (more on this in a separate post).

A couple more things:
1. I’m going to release a Chef recipe for deployment of Realplexor – a lightweight realtime updates server we’re using in our EngineYard instance. If you’re a Rails guy – get excited.

2. Last week I let myself off the hook and spent quite some time on my PhD thesis. Hoping to catch up this week. (Yeah, right.)

 

Posted by Roman Kutanov 

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