Product Overview of Flow-e
Flow-e is an innovative email and task management platform designed to transform your inbox into a highly visual and efficient task board, seamlessly integrating with your existing Gmail or Office 365 email account.
What Flow-e Does
Flow-e eliminates the need for external task management tools by converting your email inbox into a centralized task management hub. It unifies tasks, emails, and personnel into a single platform, enhancing productivity and streamlining workflows. This visualization layer works in real-time, ensuring that your data is not stored on Flow-e’s servers, but rather accessed directly from your email provider’s servers using secure protocols like OAuth 2 and Open ID Connect.
Key Features and Functionality
- Kanban Board: Flow-e utilizes a Kanban-like workflow, allowing you to visualize your tasks and emails in a board with unlimited columns. This helps in understanding the stage of each task and focusing on critical tasks, aligning with methods like Kanban, GTD (Getting Things Done), and Inbox Zero.
- Task Management: You can convert emails into tasks by simply dragging and dropping them into actionable columns. Tasks can be further customized with subtasks, deadlines, and notes directly from the interface.
- Email Organization: Flow-e organizes your emails by phases of progress, exposing actionable emails in visual and action-driven columns rather than hiding them in folders. This feature ensures you can see the status of all tasks, including deadlines and delegates, at a glance.
- Delegation and Tracking: Delegating tasks to team members is straightforward with Flow-e’s drag and drop interface. The system monitors team activities in real-time, providing visibility into task progress, and sends notifications upon task completion.
- Timeline View: Your daily schedule is visualized in a timeline, allowing you to set up meetings and reminders without leaving your mailbox. This feature integrates your calendar events seamlessly into the task management workflow.
- Notes and To-Dos: Flow-e supports adding notes, to-dos, and due dates to emails and calendar events. It also includes standalone task cards and the ability to create and manage to-do lists and notes.
- Security and Integration: Flow-e integrates securely with Gmail and Outlook using HTTPS and authentication protocols, ensuring your data remains secure and within your control. It does not store your email data on its servers.
- Additional Features: Other notable features include hover actions for quick email management, the ability to star and label emails, and a “Group cards” feature to bundle related emails. Flow-e also supports two-step authentication for added security.
Pricing and Accessibility
Flow-e offers a free plan as well as a Pro plan starting at $5/month/user, providing access to the full range of features and functionalities. This makes it an accessible solution for both individual users and teams looking to enhance their productivity and workflow management.