The short answer: ask alfred_, by text or in the app: “Read what I sent this week. What did I say I’d do, for whom, and by when, and does a later email show it done?” It reads your sent emails and lists each commitment with the person and the date you gave. For a Friday list, make it a routine.
The intro you offered on Tuesday
You run a four-person marketing consultancy with a dozen retainer clients. In a normal week you send a few hundred emails, and plenty of them end with an offer: “I’ll send the revised plan Thursday.” “Let me intro you to our web developer.” “I’ll pull the numbers for last quarter.”
Nobody writes those into a task list. You mean to do each one when you write it. By Friday, two of them are done, three are half done, and one you’ve forgotten until the client asks, politely, in week three.
The native ways, and where they stop
Flagging your own sent emails. Works if you remember to flag at the moment you hit send.
A task app. Works for the promises you copy into it.
Re-reading the sent folder. A few hundred emails, on a Friday afternoon.
Ask, or make it weekly
- Connect the inbox you send client email from. Sign in with Google or Microsoft; your password stays with them.
- Ask by text or in the app: “Read what I sent this week. What did I say I’d do, for whom, and by when? Check whether a later email shows it done.”
- For a standing list: “Every Friday at 2, email me what I promised in sent emails this week that isn’t done yet.” alfred_ shows you the routine before you turn it on. See Make your own.
What the list looks like
What you said you’d do this week (4), 2 open
- Open: revised Q1 plan to Tom Becker (Becker Supply). You said “by Thursday.” No later email with the plan.
- Open: intro Jess Patel (Patel Dental) to your web developer. Offered Tuesday. No intro email sent.
- Done: last quarter’s numbers to Mike Russo (Russo Auto). Sent Wednesday, spreadsheet attached.
- Done: call times to Amy Chen (Chen Law). Sent Monday; she picked Thursday at 3.
Illustrative example, not output from a real run. The clients and items are invented.
Two items, both quick, both on you.
Where each step happens
- Desktop: make the routine on the Routines page; the Friday list arrives by email.
- Phone: “what did I promise Tom this week?” by text.
- Catching up: “write the intro to Jess and our developer” writes it; it goes when you say send.
The honest caveat
alfred_ reads the email you send from the inboxes you connect. A promise made on a call, or work delivered outside email, isn’t seen, so it can show something as open that you’ve done. It judges each email from what it says, so skim the list before acting on it. alfred_ is a paid product, and routines run on the credits your plan includes; plans are on the pricing page.
