Complete, Comment on assigned tasks via email reply for non-checkvist users
The vast majority of use cases, where checkvist is used collaboratively, will be that one or multiple people use checkvist while one or multiple people don't (or don't yet). For these situations, the only model that I've seen work well, is to allow the passive participants to "use" checkvist from the comfort of their own inboxes. Our inboxes are where most of us live, and for teams with different workflows, or even more commonly for that one-off-task you want to assign to someone that doesn't use checkvist, there should be an option for assignees to comment on and complete (and maybe do other things) via email reply. This is pretty simple, as checkvist already does email notifications for assigned tasks. So, the only thing necessary to add, is a link to each of these emails saying "click to complete" and a short note saying "reply to comment on this task" or something to that effect. this goes a LONG LONG way towards making checkvist non-checkvist-user-friendly, and keeping me from having to go back to living in email half the time.
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Hello Jonathan,
The idea is interesting, and clearly has some business usages. As far as I understand, you want to avoid creating accounts by people who are assigned tasks to? I'm afraid, this doesn't fit Checkvist's architecture. To do some activity in the tool, one have to have an account there.
We could create some specific links in e-mails, which would perform some actions like closing a task, or allow commenting out an existing task from e-mail client, but this still requires existence of the Checkvist account.
We already have a link in due notification e-mail which allows to close the task - we could add such a link to notification e-mails. Would it be useful?
Kind regards,
KIR