Email is the most successful and popular application ever. We all rely on getting our information, updates and notifications through email whether it is on our PC, Mac, Blackberry or iPhone. We understand that email is not going anywhere and so have built certain tools within DeskAway that will help you collaborate right from your inbox.

1. Every action in DeskAway has an email notification - so if I am assigning you a task or an issue, you will get an email with all the information and a link to view it within the application.

2. Then there is DeskMail - with this, people can simply reply to the emails they get in #1 (so they are working in their inbox now) but a copy of their email reply is also stored within their DeskAway project. So, if you reply to Jay’s email with comments, not only Jay will receive your comment via email but our application will start appending this email conversation as a comment thread within the task that can be visited later. Sending attachments is also possible. Think Posterous or tumblr here.

3. If you set it on, you and your team members can also get a daily email reminder (so, you don’t have to log in to the application) of all your pending and upcoming projects, milestones, tasks and issues.

There are a few companies that have moved away from email for collaboration, but if you love your inbox you can take advantage of the above when working on your projects.

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