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Email to task

Feature Request

I was hoping to be able to convert emails to tasks.
Converting an email to a task would mean

.. creating a task
.. archiving the email

unfortunately, the archiving part does not happen.
The Email Inbox is actually a backlog and therefore it would absolutely make sense to handle it similarly to the backlog.

Posted by heinz ·
Status: Planned2 comments

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  • Adrián

    Team•

    Nov 4, 2025

    @heinz thank you very much for your feature suggestion!

    We plan to add automations to integrations so you can configure what happens when you take an action in an integration, like creating a task from an integration element, or marking a task created from an integration element as done. This would allow you to archive the email the moment you create the task from it, or archive it when you mark the associated task as done.

    You can already switch to the Email or any other integration column in the planning ritual, so you can use the ritual to plan your day no matter where tasks are coming from.

    I see what you mean, but I’d in fact say that you should turn all the emails you plan to act upon into tasks! If the action you need to take is to reply, this way you can organize how and when do you want to do so, and in fact you can just reply from the Juno task for your email, so you avoid changing contexts into your email app.

    I really appreciate you’re seeing the value in Juno, and again, thanks for your feedback and your clear explanations!

  • heinz

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    Nov 3, 2025

    One approach could be to add Email as the 3rd column to the planning ritual
    Today ← Backlog ← Email.

    To be clear: not every email should be converted to a task. Some are waiting for an answer. And Juno does it right. These should be kept in the “Email” stack until replied. For many others OTOH converting to a task (and at the same time getting it out of the mailbox) is the only way to make it actionable. So that feature would solve the “I keep it in the inbox until I’ve completed the task”. We all know where that ends. Here’s your chance to finally put an end to that problem for good.
    Examples for emails that must be converted to a task:
    - I want to buy tickets for this event
    - I have to call this company
    - What a great marketing email, I might learn from it
    - The … mentioned sounds interesting. I’ll do some research later on