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by smt88 1982 days ago
Most people solve this outside of email using project management software.

We use ClickUp and absolutely love it. You can turn any email, Slack message, form submission, Jira event -- anything -- into a task in ClickUp. It includes due dates, comments, file attachments, docs, and more.

The only other company that makes me feel like a fanboy is Jetbrains. ClickUp is really that good (even though it's pretty massive and intimidating to start out with).
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amangoeliitb 1982 days ago
What if we assigned a task to someone. They agreed for a timeline of 1 week. Then after a week they forgot and I also forgot?

The problem is that it is quite time and energy-consuming to follow-up with people on the tasks. Any suggestions?

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smt88 1981 days ago
The PM/task software should have reminders (email and/or push). I use ClickUp as my master agenda. I do the task at the top of the list (sorted by due date and priority) and then move to the next one.

> The problem is that it is quite time and energy-consuming to follow-up with people on the tasks. Any suggestions?

I don't know. I think this is just the overhead of working on a team. Our company hates it too, so we have a PM whose only job is to do that part.

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