Handle offers a web app and a companion native iOS app that integrate with Gmail (with plans for Microsoft Exchange and Yahoo) to pull email into a task-focused workflow. Its patented "Handle bar" UX lets users annotate emails with deadlines, snooze messages, create projects, cluster emails, and convert messages into prioritized tasks via keyboard shortcuts. The product captures, triages, schedules and surfaces daily priorities, placing tasks onto a working calendar and enabling rapid inline responses. The iOS app is a pared-down view of tasks with plans to evolve into a full inbox client over time. Future roadmap discussed in the article includes deeper calendar integration and ingesting other message types such as Twitter DMs. Handle plans a freemium business model and will later offer a paid pro tier with enterprise features; the company has been privately tested with tech executives and received positive feedback.

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Apr 2013