Teamwork
Teamwork email integration
Teamwork gets the task out of an email you forward to ForwardThis, on the project from your instructions, and time can be logged against it later.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Teamwork
Create a free account and connect Teamwork. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made, and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Annual report copy - final round
Add a task in the Larkfield Annual Report project, due 4 September, and comment with what they've asked for.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Two changes on page 6 and the trustee list needs updating. If we can have it back by the 4th we'll still make the print slot.
Added a task in Larkfield Annual Report
Final copy changes · due Fri 4 Sep
Commented on the task
Page 6 changes and the trustee list
Undo available for 24 hours if something does not look right.
Some other examples
- “Mark the final copy task complete.”
- “Move the print deadline task to 11 September.”
- “What's still open on the Larkfield Annual Report project?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Teamwork
Look up tasks
Find tasks
Look up a contact
Look up a colleague
Read a record
Read a task and its comments
Create task
Add a task to a project
Update task
Update or complete a task
Move task
Move a task to another list
Change tags
Change a task's tags
Add note
Comment on a task
Delete task
Delete a task
Add CRM record
Log time against a task
Create project
Create a project
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How does the Teamwork email integration work?
- Teamwork files every task into a task list and has no default one, so the instruction names the project, and where that project has more than one list ForwardThis asks which, offering the lists straight from Teamwork rather than guessing. Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction, like "add a task in the Larkfield Annual Report project, due 4 September". ForwardThis creates the task, puts the email in the description, and replies to confirm with a link. The first time, you'll need a free account with Teamwork connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire Teamwork email integration. Creating a Teamwork task from an email has a page of its own.
- Which task list does the task go into?
- The one from your instructions. Teamwork files every task into a task list and has no default one, so when the project from your instructions has more than one list, ForwardThis asks which, offering the lists straight from Teamwork. Guessing would file the work somewhere nobody looks, so it doesn't.
- Can it comment on a task instead of creating one?
- Yes. Name the task and the comment goes on it, which is the usual way a client reply gets to the person doing the work. Teamwork notifies the task's followers as it normally would, and undo removes the comment again within 24 hours.
- Can it delete a task?
- No. Teamwork's trash is something you get in the app itself and not from outside it, so a task ForwardThis deleted would have no way back. It can complete a task, reopen one, and take back a task it created itself if you undo within 24 hours. Logging time is out too, because a timesheet entry becomes an invoice line and an email is not a timesheet.
- How is this different from Teamwork's own email address for tasks?
- Teamwork gives a task list its own address, and whatever you send there becomes a task with the subject as the title. Teamwork has no default task list, so that address is tied to one list in one project, and a second project means a second address. ForwardThis is one address for everything: it reads the instruction you wrote, puts the task in the project and list from your instructions with a due date on it, comments on an existing task when that's what you asked for, and raises the follow-up work in your other apps at the same time.