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A logical extension of this idea would be the ability to send tasks. That is, say that I'm a teacher and I want to send out an assignment that's due by 6pm the next day to all my students. I should be able to send out a to-do task attached to my email telling my students when the assignment is due, and each student should be able to just click "add to my tasks" and have it integrate with their existing tasks without each student having to manually create a task.

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This is actually something that Microsoft Outlook does reasonably well (and it has existed for quite a long time). You can mail around tasks, meeting requests, etc., and they can be automatically added to the recipients' task lists or calendars. Unfortunately, everyone in the organization has to be forced to use Outlook for this kind of stuff to work seamlessly.

This is something we are working on actually. I looked at it as an HR task that everyone in the company has to complete - you know its going to be a task so why not just send the task rather than the email?

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