General Task (Beta) - Find what’s next in your workday

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!

Awesome solution! Has changed the way myself and my team work, highly recommend! Great job guys!

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!

Such an amazing product. Eliminates a major pain point. Good luck team

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.

Todoist integration hopefully next for sure 💪

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!

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).

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)?

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

Wow

Very excited to see the launch and how far the product has come! It is extremely polished!

Love using the GitHub integration in my day-to-day!

Congratulations on the launch🎉

Great work on the launch of General Task! The product is very well thought out and executed. I'm excited to see how it will help people take control of their workdays.

This is awesome, just what I needed!

Congrats.

I love organisation tools 🤩 Yours looks so cool!

Very excited about the future of General Task!!!

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