Always at your service!
Maria and James are very talented and will support you with many activities. A quick glance at your open tasks, a quick check on your calendar, a friendly hint about new emails from your team, or an energetic tap on your shoulder because a server is down.
With quickies and quicklets they will make you happy. All quickies connect with one of your desktop, server, or cloud applications. Maria and James are in constant contact with these applications. They can show you information from the applications in the quickie pop-ups, and at the same time, they monitor this information for you on their own and notify you when certain events occur.
Sounds simple? - It is!
All your quickies are neatly lined up in your personal assistant bar.
- Quickie Icons - each of your quickies has a freely selectable icon
- Lightning Strips - a bright and energy-saving lightning strip under each quickie icon notifies you about the connected application's important and less important events
- Quicklets - your quickies host one or more quicklets with which you can access relevant information, e.g., a quicklet with your open tasks, a quicklet with your task watchlist, and a quicklet with your recently viewed tasks.
Email Tracking
The Email Tracking Quickie helps you focus on the emails that truly matter. It filters out the daily flood of messages, allowing you to quickly identify the emails that are relevant and essential to your work.
Inbox Quicklet
The Inbox Quicklet displays your inbox in chronological order in the Quickie popup. Open any email with a single click.
Create display filters based on sender or subject to limit the displayed emails to only those that matter to you. You can create multiple Inbox Quicklets, each with its own display filter. For example, dedicate one Quicklet to emails from your manager, another to your team, one to IT monitoring alerts, one to build server notifications, and another to customer emails.
Each Inbox Quicklet can also have its own notification rules based on sender or subject, allowing you to receive notifications, warnings, or alerts only for the emails that are important to you.
Mail Folder Quicklet
The Mail Folder Quicklet displays the contents of any mail folder in your email account. Open any email with a single click.
You can create any number of Mail Folder Quicklets for the same or different mail folders. Each Quicklet can have its own display filter and notification rules, giving you tailored views and notifications.
Quicklets
- Inbox - View your inbox
- Mail Folder - View any mail folder
Integrations
- Microsoft Outlook (Desktop)
- Microsoft 365 Outlook
Display Filter
You can filter your emails by the following fields:
- Sender - filter by email sender or domain
- Subject - filter by subject keywords
Notification Rules
You can define notifications, warnings, or alerts based on the following fields:
- Sender – Match by email address or domain
- Subject – Match by subject keywords
Calendar Tracking
With the calendar tracking quickie, your calendars are always just a click away. You'll also get a subtle hint when your next appointment is coming up or when you are (or should be) in an appointment. You will also be notified when someone sends you a meeting request.
Calendar Quicklet
The Calendar Quicklet shows you - what a surprise - all the appointments from today, tomorrow and the following days.You can use several daily calendar quicklets to watch several calendars (e.g., your professional and private calendars).
Create display filters based on location or or subject to limit the displayed appointments to only those that matter to you. You can create multiple Calendar Quicklets, each with its own display filter.
Calendar Announcement Board
The calendar announcement board shows your following two appointments. A red light appears if the appointment is ongoing, a yellow light appears when the appointment starts soon, and the remaining time until the start will also be displayed.
Quicklets
- Calendar - Show any calendar
Integrations
- Microsoft Outlook (Desktop)
- Microsoft 365 Outlook
Display Filter
You can filter your appointments by the following fields:
- Subject - filter by subject keywords
- Location
Notification Rules
The following events can trigger notifications, warnings, or alerts:
- Meeting Request
- Short-Notice Meeting Request
Personal Pinboards
With the pinboard quickie, you can create one or more pinboards for your projects, specific topics, areas of responsibility, or whatever else and pin web links, files, and folders relevant to you.
Pinboard Quicklet
A pinboard quicklet stands for precisely one pinboard.
The pinboards support drag & drop, so you can simply drag web links, files and folders onto them.
Quicklets
- Web Links
- Files
- Folders
- Desktop Shortcuts
Task Tracking
The Task Tracking Quickie gives you instant access to your tasks. Click the Quickie icon to view your tasks, then click any task to open it directly in your browser.
My Tasks Quicklet
This quicklet displays all your tasks.
Create display filters based on subject, priority, task type, or task status to display only the tasks that matter to you. You can create multiple My Tasks Quicklets, each with its own display filters. For example, dedicate one Quicklet to high-priority tasks, another to tasks from a specific project, and another to the tasks you're currently working on.
My Watchlist Quicklet
All tasks on your watchlist are listed chronologically according to the last change.
You can create notification rules to be notified whenever one of your watched tasks is updated by someone else.
Recent Tasks Quicklet
Your recently viewed tasks are displayed in chronological order.
Quicklets
- My Tasks - View your tasks
- My Watchlist - View your watchlist
- Recent Tasks - View your recently viewd tasks
Integrations
- Jira Cloud
- Additional integrations on the roadmap
Display Filter
- Subject: filter by subject keywords
- Priority: filter by priority
- Task Type: filter by task type
- Task Status: filter by task status
Notification Rules
- Task Assigned: A new task has been assigned to you.
- Task Updated: The task was updated by someone else.
Ready for your own personal assistant?
Maria & James are still learning. But soon, they will be ready for their first real-world experiences. Because we want to learn from you too — how you work, what challenges you face, and how we can support you best — we are inviting a small group of pioneers to help shape Maria & James as they take their first steps.
No cost. No commitment. Just the opportunity to shape Maria & James from the very beginning.
Join our waiting list, and when Maria & James are ready to meet the people they'll learn from, I'll send you your personal invitation code and everything you need to get started.
I have been working on Maria & James for five years, during which time I've rolled the stone up the mountain over flat plains and steep slopes. And some bum has piled the mountain higher and higher from the other side. Some new followers, some folks on the waiting list, and a little hope that when the first version is finished and I reach the top, a few people will stand there and say, "Guy, you did a good job.".
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