Hi all,I'm a CxO at a non-tech midsize firm (c. 2000 employees/$400m sales). One of the main duties of a C-roles is a kind of general project management ('project' being used here in a very wide sense: you could think of 'producing the monthly reporting' as a recurring project).Until now, I've never needed much discipline as a "project manager" (both for self, team): no todo lists, few notes, and overall little formalized tracking of everything. Projects, roadmaps, tasks usually have found their place in my memory, aided by cursory looks at my inbox which I have never bothered to try to organize.The company being growing at quite a fast pace, my scope, the number of projects, and the team are expanding - and so I'm realizing that I may need a bit more discipline if I don't want anything to slip into a sinkhole and only be heard of again because someone else asks about it...What has been stopping me lately is the lack of an appropriate tool for the kind of old-school environment I'm in: the main ways of communicating are (async) email and (sync) meetings.The solution is embarassingly simple: since the company's (and I suspect, many companies') primary communication channel is email, I need to 'augment' email with some form of editable notes, in the same tool so that:
- all emails can be linked to one or more projects => this solves email clutter, short-term task management, reminders, etc
- all projects can have one or more editable notes => this solves keeping track of a project history, meetings, decisions, etc in the same place as the main elements of the project, which are usually exchanged by email
- everything being seemlessly blended into my email client, enabling easy triage/search/etc, both on mobile and on desktopThe first requirement is easily fulfilled by mostly any email client, but I know of no email client that combines that with editable notes directly attached to folders in one unified view.Ideas anyone?