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How action items work

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Talisk reads incoming mail and raises an action item for anything that needs you: a reply, a decision, a task. Open Action Items from the sidebar (a red badge shows how many are open).

Each item is one card per thread, tagged with its urgency and (when drafted) a Draft pill. Per card you can:

  • Done: mark it handled.
  • Snooze: hide it until later today, tomorrow, the weekend, or next week.
  • Skip: drop it from the list but leave the email in your inbox.
  • Archive: file the email and close the item (it's styled red but it's not a delete).

You get one card per thread: a follow-up email re-points the same card to the newest message (and re-opens it if you'd closed it). When you reply (in Talisk or straight from Gmail/Outlook) the card closes itself. To reply with an AI-drafted response, open the email from the card.

Good to know: You get one action item per email thread: a follow-up re-anchors the same card rather than adding another, and replying (in Talisk or in your mailbox) closes it automatically. The red Archive button is not a delete: it files the email and closes the item.