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How tasks land in alfred_ — automatic extraction from email, manual capture via chat, and what alfred_ does with them.

Tasks in alfred_ track the small commitments that pile up across email and conversation. They get into your list three ways: automatic extraction from email, on-demand capture, and bulk import.

Screenshot — Tasks panel showing tasks grouped by Open / Overdue / Done, with linked source emails and inline actions

What you can do

  • Capture a task by asking — “remind me to send the contract to Sarah by Friday”
  • Capture from email — alfred_ pulls commitments and asks out of incoming threads automatically
  • List what’s open — “what’s on my list?”, “what’s overdue?”, “what’s due this week?”
  • Update tasks — “mark the contract task done”, “push the report deadline to Friday”
  • Search — “do I have a task about the Acme proposal?”
  • Get stats — “how many open tasks do I have?”, “what’s been on my list longest?”
  • Bulk-move — “push all of [client]‘s tasks to next week”

How email-to-task extraction works

When alfred_ triages incoming email, it watches for two patterns:

  • You committed to something — “I’ll send the deck Tuesday”, “let me get back to you tomorrow”
  • Someone asked for something specific — “can you send me the file by EOD?”, “need your input on the proposal”

When alfred_ spots one, it creates a task with the deadline (when given) and links it back to the source email. See Task extraction for the full rules.

How manual capture works

Anywhere you can chat with alfred_ (Web Chat, SMS):

  • “Add a task: send proposal to Acme by Friday”
  • “Remind me to call John tomorrow afternoon”
  • “Track that I owe Sarah a one-pager next week”

alfred_ creates the task and confirms — you don’t have to specify dates or details upfront, but it’ll ask if missing context would matter.

Where tasks live

Tasks show up in three places:

  1. Tasks panel — full list view with filters (open / done / overdue)
  2. Daily Brief — overdue tasks land in “Overdue promises”
  3. Linked to email / events — open the source thread or event to see linked tasks