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General Task is the best way to take control of your workday. Prioritize your work using AI, integrate with your team’s task managers, see your pull requests, take notes, and plan your day with your calendar, all in one place.

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I’m John Reinstra, Co-Founder and CEO of General Task. Previously, I was an early engineer at Robinhood. While I was there, I watched the company grow from 75 people to over 3,000, and as that happened, I saw the company become far less efficient. Towards the end of my tenure, I was spending hours every day triaging the endless emails, messages, tasks and alerts that all required my attention, while also constantly being blocked by others due to poor prioritization. This made me feel (and act) much less productive on a daily basis. I realized things didn’t have to be this way, and started General Task to solve this problem. I built a team of five engineers (ex Meta, Robinhood, Amazon) and two designers (ex Netflix, Atlassian) and we got to work on a solution. We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of General Task, a new way to plan your workday. Our mission is to improve the productivity of all knowledge workers. Instead of spending hours triaging manually, prioritize your work using AI, integrate with your team’s task manager, see your pull requests, take notes, and plan your day with your calendar, all in one place. Our initial integrations support primarily the use-cases of startup employees. We integrate with many of the tools you use in your workday. Namely, Linear, Google Calendar, Slack, and Github. We have many more integrations on the way, including JIRA and Asana coming soon. General Task was built from the ground up with the help of extensive user research and feedback. So please let us know how you like it and what you’d like to see in the app in the future!
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Thanks Shivam! We don't have plans for that yet, but will definitely keep that in mind for the future.
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Thanks Jan!
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Thanks Raju!
Awesome solution! Has changed the way myself and my team work, highly recommend! Great job guys!
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Thanks so much Danny, that's great to hear!
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Thanks Shakil! Do you have any more specific feedback for us?
Wow, the focus mode + smart prioritise is really what I was looking for without knowing it in a task manager! Would it be possible to support Discord? Also, it would be nice to automatically group tasks by specific label(s) and/or Linear workspace! That would avoid doing it by hand for each issue. Congratulations for the launch!
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Thanks Sirius! This is the first time I've heard someone suggest Discord, but I think its an interesting idea! What would your use-case look like for that?
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Thanks so much Sirius for the kind words and for the helpful feedback!
Just to be able to add tasks easily without having to switch contexts and copy/paste ;) Hehe, btw did anyone suggest to support Height.app?^^
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Ah makes sense, we can definitely look into a mobile app! And you're the first to suggest Height.App, we'll definitely take a look!
a Discord integration would be awesome, I've never seen another app with one
Such an amazing product. Eliminates a major pain point. Good luck team
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Thanks Pavel! Let us know if there is anything you'd like to see added to app!
Julian, thanks for the reply. I see some further implication of the tool (as well as underlying AI technology) beyond software developers’ world. Using AI to boost productivity has sooo many use-cases, especially in areas where time really matters and timely interaction is key along with moments of laser-focus (e.g. consultants)
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Thanks for the suggestions! We're definitely interested in productivity beyond software developers, this is just the beginning!
Great! More to come!
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Thanks for the kind words Pavel!
Always a bit weird when a first interaction with a company is an all caps TOS that you can never sue them or take part in a class action suit against them. Gonna pass on that opportunity.
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Thanks for the feedback. While most companies hide clauses like this in their TOS, we want to be transparent with our users, which is why we work to make you aware of important parts of our TOS. You can easily opt out of the binding arbitration by following the instructions outlined in the TOS.
Okay I can appreciate that. Thanks for the response.
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No problem! Let me know if you have any other questions or feedback.
I love this type of transparency!
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Thanks Maz, we do our best!
Todoist integration hopefully next for sure 💪
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Hey Ryan, we have been looking at doing a Todoist integration for a while. Could be our next integration after JIRA and Asana (coming soon).
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Thanks for the suggestion Ryan! Curious how you'd want to use Todoist in combination with our software?
nice! would you connect to Trello or todoist some day? or maybe have a mobile app? I am a fan of widgets in my phone a lot!
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Thanks Jesuel for the kind words and the suggestions! We’ll definitely keep those in mind.
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Thanks for the feedback Jesuel! We'll definitely consider these suggestions, a lot of people have been suggesting a mobile app today!
widgets would be super useful!
Yeah! With a widget that allows you to easily "Add" on your phone, General Task would also be an excellent tool for quickly capturing ideas. With it, you could save things like "Add the new blue logo to Behance" "Check the new HTML tutorial" or maybe "Mix the layers of the last PSD with the new cover" while you're busy with something else. Many ideas come up when you least expect them, and with General Task you could save them to organize them better at another time.
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Makes sense!
Holy @%$! this is sick. So far it's syncing seamlessly with Slack and Linear. Gonna give it a good try and see how it goes (then report back).
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Thanks so much Nicholas! Looking forward to seeing your feedback.
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Awesome, thanks Nicholas! Looking forward to hearing what you think!
Whoa, this looks really powerful and brings a lot of useful functionality into one platform. Grats on the launch! 🎉 Loving the UI simplicity as well. What sort of integrations do you have in store here (and are there any at the moment)?
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Thanks so much for the kind words Bren! We have integrations for Slack, Google calendar, Github and Linear currently, but will likely add JIRA and Asana soon. Are there any you're looking for specifically?
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Thanks for the feedback Bren! Are there any integrations you'd like to see in the future? As of right now, we have JIRA and Asana in the works.
the calendar and slack integrations are pretty powerful
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Glad to hear it, Scott!
Very interesting take on productivity, I really like how how scheduling tasks couples with the focus mode. The interface is very slick too. Will try it out for a few more weeks before making the switch
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Awesome, thanks Mike! Let us know if there's anything you'd like to see added!
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Thanks for the kind words Mike!
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