Mandata 2.9.0

Flags that follow Outlook, a third kind of task, and a quieter activity log.

• Flags, both ways: flagging a task now flags the email it came from in Outlook, and an email you flag in Outlook flags its task in Mandata. "Pin to the top" is now "Flag", and the Flagged filter lists them, on the computer and on the phone.

• Promotion: besides Mandate and Compliance, tasks that are only offered or advertised to you (an optional webinar, a course, a fundraiser, an awards vote, a wellness event, a newsletter's call to register) are sorted as Promotion. Like Compliance, they wait in Tasks: no pop-ups, no bell, left out of the daily email and the digest. Your earlier tasks are sorted again once; the ones you marked yourself stay as you set them.

• Arrival date: a task's date is when the email that asked for it arrived, and later replies never move it. Lists are grouped the same way everywhere: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Older.

• Activity: stuck threads no longer fill the log; they wait at the end of the queue and are tried again on their own.

• Insights: the flow diagram's bands no longer cross inside a bar.

• Start with Windows: on by default, kept through updates and reinstalls, and switching it off in Windows' own Startup list is respected.

• Install: Windows now installs from one file, Mandata-Windows.exe: double-click it, nothing to unzip or unblock. The macOS and Linux packages are on this release too.