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Email to tracked work

Label an email, and the commitment inside it becomes tracked work.

Client requests, supplier deadlines, and half the promises a company makes arrive by email and stay there. Vindaris turns the ones you label into tasks mapped to a goal, then clears the label when the work is done.

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Trigger
Any Gmail label you choose. Pick several, or use one default.
Creates
A task per labelled email, with the sender parsed from the header.
On completion
The label is removed and the thread can be archived automatically.
Auth
Google OAuth. Only labelled mail is read, never the whole mailbox.
What Vindaris reads

Your existing labels are the interface.

There is no new inbox habit to learn. You already triage mail with labels, so Vindaris uses the labels you pick as the signal for what deserves to become tracked work.

The labels you select

Choose which of your existing Gmail labels feed Vindaris. Mail without those labels is never pulled in.

A task per email

Each labelled message becomes a task carrying the subject, the sender name and address parsed from the header, and a link back to the thread.

Mapped to a goal

Those tasks connect to the objective they serve, so email-driven commitments count toward the same progress as everything else.

Label cleared on completion

Finishing the task in Vindaris removes the label from the message, which keeps the inbox and the plan agreeing with each other.

Optional archiving

The thread can be archived at the same time, so completing work in Vindaris actually clears your inbox rather than adding to it.

Replies as context

Thread activity is available as context on the task, so a commitment that is being renegotiated by email is visible as such.

How the connection works

Connect the account, choose the labels, map the goals.

The connection is user-level. Nobody needs to hand over a shared mailbox or ask an administrator for delegated access.

01
Authorize Google

Connect the account from the integrations screen. Tokens are encrypted and refreshed automatically.

02
Pick your labels

Select which labels feed Vindaris. Many teams use an existing follow-up or commitments label rather than creating a new one.

03
Attach the work to goals

Confirm which objective each email-born task supports, so client promises are visible next to planned work.

04
Close the loop

Complete the task and the label comes off. The inbox and the goal stay in agreement without a second pass.

Task Board

Email commitments sitting next to planned work.

A labelled email arrives with a Gmail source tag under the objective it affects, which makes unplanned client work visible instead of invisible overhead.

Task board showing Gmail-sourced commitments beside planned work
Heatmap

How much of the quarter is reactive.

When a large share of a team's tracked work arrives by email rather than from the plan, the heatmap shows it, which is usually the first honest measure of interrupt load.

Heatmap showing the share of team work arriving from email
Why it matters

The commitments that break a quarter are usually the ones nobody planned.

A customer asks for something in an email. Someone says yes. It never enters any planning tool, so it consumes two engineering weeks that were allocated to an objective, and the objective slips for reasons that look mysterious on the dashboard.

Labelling that email into Vindaris makes the trade visible at the moment it happens rather than at the review. The work counts, it has an owner, and it either maps to a goal or shows up as effort spent outside the plan. Both answers are useful. The one thing that helps nobody is the promise living only in a thread.

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Where to go next

Use case
Automated status reporting
Build the weekly review from work data, not from chasing owners.
Solution
Goal tracking software
Progress derived from real work instead of a status field.
Use case
When execution starts slipping
Catch the goal whose work stopped moving, weeks before the deadline.
Frequently asked questions

Gmail and Vindaris, answered

Does Vindaris read my whole mailbox?

No. Only messages carrying the labels you select are pulled in. Unlabelled mail is never read, and you can change the selected labels at any time.

Do I need to create a new Gmail label?

Not necessarily. Most teams point Vindaris at a label they already use for follow-ups. If you prefer a dedicated one, the integration falls back to a single named label.

What happens to the email when I finish the task?

Vindaris removes the selected label from the message and can archive the thread at the same time, so completing work in Vindaris also clears your inbox instead of leaving a duplicate to triage.

Can email work be reported separately from planned work?

Yes. Tasks created from Gmail carry a source tag, which makes it straightforward to show how much of a team's quarter arrived by email rather than from the plan.

Get the promises out of the inbox and into the plan.

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