![]() ![]() Once they met, clicked, and started putting their heads together, Hitsnag is what came out. They were "the same type of nerd" and living just a couple houses away from each other for eight years without realizing it, as one of the creators, Yash Kadadi, recounted to me in a recent email conversation. It's the brainchild of two ambitious high school seniors from Atlanta. Now, ready for the icing on this already-delectable geek-sprinkled cake? This thoughtful, polished, and professionally packaged creation isn't actually the work of some well-funded startup, as you'd expect after exploring it. This service is poised to turn your inbox into an all-purpose hub for interacting with all of your productivity apps, and that's pretty forkin' fantastic, if you ask me. In addition to Google Docs, Notion, and Trello, Hitsnag plans to add support for Slack, Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, Asana, and possibly even Google Calendar in the months ahead. It all works the same whether you're emailing from your phone, your computer, your internet-connected turkey baster, or whatever other weird contraptions you've got - and whether you're using Gmail, Hotmail, LukewarmMail, or any other email service imaginable.īest of all, what we're seeing now is still only the start. All you do is include the appropriate service addresses in the message's recipient field, and Hitsnag handles the rest. The same basic concept we just went over with Docs also applies to Trello and Notion, but in those scenarios, you can get even more nuanced and include info like the name of the board or page you want to target with whatever info you're emailing.Īnd here's the really intriguing part: In addition to sending stuff to any one of those services, you can also use Hitsnag to send something to multiple supported services at once - if, say, you've got a thought or an email that you want to add into both a Google Docs document and a Trello card or maybe a note you want to toss into both Trello and Notion. When you send the message, that text will get tacked onto the end of the matching document - and even if you don't get the document's name exactly right, Hitsnag will usually figure it out and find the closest matching document within your Google Docs storage. And if you ever want to edit an existing Google Docs document, by golly, you can do that, too: You just put the document's name into the subject line of an email, then put whatever text you want to add into the body. You could do the same thing with any manner of info you enter into an email, whether it's a message you're forwarding or something new you're typing out on the spot. Hit "Send" on that sucker, and a second later, bam: You'll have a Google Docs document with the exact info you beamed over - and with all of your formatting and styling in place. ![]() You put the name you want for the document in the subject line and leave whatever text you want in the body. Whatever the case may be, with Hitsnag set up, all you've gotta do is forward the email to from any address you have associated with your account. Maybe it's a draft of something a colleague sent over, maybe it's a note you wrote to yourself in the wee hours of the night whilst consuming copious amounts of canned cheese, or maybe it's even, ahem, a super-awesome knowledge-filled newsletter by an unusually handsome fellow. Let's say, for instance, you've got an email you want to dump over into a Google Docs document for future contemplation. Already, though, the service makes it almost impossibly easy to interact with your info in any of the supported apps without ever having to leave your inbox. So glad it looks like this is finally coming to Planner too.Right now, Hitsnag works with Google Docs, Notion, and Trello, and even more integrations are in the works. That turns a 1 second process into about a minute, which is long enough to destroy productivity and keep the team from being willing to use Planner, which in turn undermines interest in Teams too (even though Teams supports this capability in its own Chat windows, if we have to use Jira or Trello for project work, then Teams is much less attractive as a platform). Need to be able to paste images, not save them to a file, then navigate to the file to attach them. The way this works in Jira, Trello, or even Microsoft's own Teams Chat/Posts is perfect. ![]() We can't use it for software development if we can't quickly and easily paste screen shots into comments or initial task items. For us, like for other posts here, this is the critical deficiency with Planner. Now let's just hope that MS can keep to this schedule. ![]() This is GREAT NEWS!! Here's a URL for others who end up on this page like I did when searching for information on this to check on the status. ![]()
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