Mandata 2.7.0

Your job and the organisation's chores are now kept apart, and new mail that matters gets your attention.

• Mandate or Compliance: every task is now one or the other. Mandate is your job (reports, analysis, reviews, meetings). Compliance is what the organisation asks of every staff member (passport or visa renewal, mandatory trainings, leave and HR forms, IT and facilities steps, town halls, staff surveys). Tasks found before are sorted when the app starts. Change one in its pane and the AI learns from it. Compliance tasks never pop up as notifications and are left out of the daily overdue reminder: they wait in Tasks.
• My open tasks now means open Mandate tasks assigned to you, alone or among others. A new Mandate or Compliance filter sits on the Tasks page, and every filter choice explains itself when you hover over it.
• The bell: a bell in the status bar counts the new tasks asked of you from mail that has just arrived. It never counts old mail read again. Open a task, or press Mark all as read, to clear it.
• The most important tasks: a task from new mail asked of you that scores high on the radar shows in the middle of the screen, with a sound, until you press OK. Set the score, or turn it off, in Settings > Tasks.
• New means new mail: a task is New only when its email arrived in the last 3 days, not when Mandata read an older email.
• Sorting by arrival: the Update sort and the Arrived filter go by the latest email about the task, received or sent, not by when Mandata processed it. A new Process sort orders tasks by when Mandata found them.
• Better task reading: the AI's instructions now say exactly what a task is (a request or a promise, with a requester, an owner and something to deliver). They name what is not a task, such as newsletters, calls to "subscribe" or "register", and courtesy phrases. Direct questions and requests for approval are now caught as tasks.
• Ask Mandata: "what came in today?" goes by the date of the email, not the day Mandata read it. Questions are answered from open tasks unless you ask about closed work. "What needs my action?" means work asked of you.
• Phone: swipe left now pins a task to the top, or unpins it; swipe right still closes it, and archives a task asked of you among others. The list switches between Open, Pinned and Closed, and parked tasks are under Closed, each with when it opens again. The sorts match the computer: Update (the default), Due, Priority and Process. A change sent twice, from the offline queue or a second tap, is applied and logged once.