Turn an email into a task without leaving your inbox
The request lands in your inbox, you make it a task in one click, deadline and all. No copy and paste, no “I’ll deal with it later” that never comes.
The UnaTask team, Building UnaTask. Jun 18, 2026. 4 min read.
It’s 4:40 on a Thursday. Sam has eleven unread emails, a call in twenty minutes, and the quiet dread of someone who knows at least one of those emails is a job, not a message. The client one, probably. The subject line says “quick thing.” It is never a quick thing.
Sam reads it. There’s a request in there, and a date: “before the end of next week.” Sam thinks, sincerely, *I’ll deal with this later.* Then archives it, because an empty inbox feels like progress. The request is now gone. So is the date.
This is how work disappears. Not dramatically, tidily. The inbox rewards you for clearing it, and the clearing is exactly what buries the thing you meant to do. A week later the client asks how it’s going, and “it” never started. Nobody dropped the ball on purpose. The ball was just never written down anywhere a person actually looks.
The problem was never Sam’s memory. It was the gap between where the work arrives, the inbox, and where the work lives, the list. Every request has to make that jump by hand, and hands are busy at 4:40 on a Thursday. So we closed the gap.
One click, straight from Gmail
Our Chrome extension puts a small button right where you read your mail. Hover over the client’s email, click, and it becomes a task in UnaTask: the title, a link back to the thread, and a due date if the email mentioned one. Nothing to type.
- No switching tabs, no pasting, no rewording the request yourself.
- Deadlines are parsed from plain language, so “by Friday” becomes an actual date on the task.
- The task keeps a link to the original email, so the full context is one click away when you sit down to do it.
The deadline parsing is the part that feels like a small magic trick. The email says “before the end of next week,” and the task arrives with an actual date attached, not a vague intention. You didn’t open a date picker. You didn’t do the mental arithmetic of what “end of next week” means. It was simply read, the way a colleague would read it.
Same Thursday. Sam reads the client email, clicks once, and watches it land in the list with Friday already attached. Then archives it, guilt free, because this time clearing the inbox erased nothing. The request is waiting for tomorrow morning, next to everything else that’s real. The call starts in nineteen minutes. Sam is, briefly, on top of things.
An inbox is a terrible to do list. It mixes the urgent with the trivial and quietly punishes the wrong habit. The fix isn’t more discipline. It’s a one click bridge from where work shows up to where work gets done.