Have you ever been out and about and received an email notification on your mobile device that a task or milestone has been assigned to you or a comment on a task has been added and you want to mark it complete quickly?
Now you can simply reply to the email with a simple directive and the task will be marked complete. You can even re-open tasks via email if another person marks the task as done and you feel it's not.
We've allowed a few variations on the directives:
- #Complete
- #Completed
- #Done
- #Uncomplete
- #Reopen
- #Open
- #NotDone
- #Reopened
It's really easy to do and will work on any email notification relating to a task or milestone such as the assignment emails, edited emails, comments on task/milestone notification and the complete/reopened emails. Simply reply to the email with #Complete or #Uncomplete.
We went one step further and merged the Complete/Uncomplete directives with adding a comment. If you only reply with a directive, we'll mark the task or milestone complete/reopened; but if you use a directive and add more text underneath the directive we'll mark the task or milestone complete/reopened and also add the extra text as a comment.
We hope you'll enjoy this small but useful enhancement to the reply-by-email functionality. We plan to extend this to the Milestone notification emails in the next few days.
Update: (15th November 2012)
Milestones can now be marked complete/reopened by replying to Milestone related emails