Team messages and tasks

What does not need an email

"Can you come to the workshop?" does not deserve a subject line, a polite opening and a signature. The speech-bubble icon opens the team messenger: short exchanges between colleagues, in the same window as the rest.

The New button opens a conversation with a colleague whose address you type. For an exchange between three or more, you create a group: a title, the participants, and the thread is open. The workshop keeps one per job in progress, closed on delivery.

What you can do there

You reply to a particular message, react with an emoji, forward a message into another conversation. The paperclip attaches a file, from the computer or from the file space. A correction or a deletion is possible in the minutes after sending, not beyond.

The magnifier, in a conversation's header, searches the whole history of the thread: that is how you find the measurement someone gave out loud three weeks earlier.

Tasks

The list icon opens your tasks. New, a title, a priority, possibly a reminder and a few details: the task joins the list. A right click lets you change it, mark it complete, or delete it.

It is made for the small things that have no file of their own: call a supplier back, order a blade, chase up a quote.