TaskFlow: Seamless Email-to-Task Management with Postmark & Supabase

This is a submission for the Postmark Challenge: Inbox Innovators.

What I Built

TaskFlow is an intuitive email-to-task manager designed to streamline your productivity by converting incoming emails into actionable tasks. Leveraging Postmark's powerful inbound email parsing and Supabase's robust backend services, TaskFlow automatically transforms structured emails into tasks with predefined due dates, priorities, and tags.
Key features include

1. Email-to-Task Conversion: Send emails to a unique address, and TaskFlow intelligently parses the subject and body to create new tasks with relevant details.
2. Comprehensive Task Management: View, filter (by status, priority, tags, search), update, and delete tasks through a clean, modern UI. User Authentication: Secure user login, registration, password reset, and logout powered by Supabase Auth.
3. Personalized Task Views: Tasks are filtered and managed based on the authenticated user's email address, ensuring privacy and relevance.
4. Interactive UI: A responsive and user-friendly interface built with React and Tailwind CSS, featuring modals for new tasks and email instructions.
5. Real-time Task Stats: Dashboard insights into total, completed, pending, overdue, and due-today tasks.

Demo

Live Application: https://task-flow-email-to-task-manager.vercel.app/
Screenshots

Code Repository

https://github.com/Boweii22/TaskFlow---EmailToTaskManager

How I Built It

TaskFlow was built with a modern and efficient tech stack to ensure a responsive, scalable, and secure application.
Frontend:
React: The core of the user interface, providing a dynamic and component-based structure.
Vite: Used as the build tool for a fast development experience and optimized production builds.
Tailwind CSS: For rapid and consistent styling, enabling a clean and minimal UI design.
react-router-dom: For client-side routing, managing different views like login, registration, and the main task list.
lucide-react: For a collection of beautiful and customizable SVG icons, enhancing the visual appeal.
date-fns: For efficient date manipulation and formatting.
Backend & Database:
Supabase: The chosen backend-as-a-service (BaaS) for its comprehensive features:
Supabase Auth: Handled all user authentication (login, registration,forgot/reset password, session management), providing a secure and ready-to-use authentication system.
Supabase Database (PostgreSQL): Served as the primary data store for tasks, utilizing a tasks table and priority_enum for structured data.
Supabase Edge Functions: Crucial for the Postmark integration. The email-webhook function (written in TypeScript) receives inbound email webhooks from Postmark, parses the email content, and inserts new tasks into the Supabase database.
Email Service Integration:
Postmark: Central to the "Email-to-Task" functionality. Postmark's inbound email parsing was configured to send webhooks to the Supabase Edge Function, enabling the automatic conversion of emails into tasks. My experience with Postmark was very positive; its robust inbound processing and clear documentation made the integration straightforward, allowing for rapid development of the core email-to-task feature.
Development Process:
The development followed an iterative approach, starting with core task management features and then integrating Postmark for email parsing. Supabase provided a seamless development experience for both authentication and database operations. The use of Vite ensured quick feedback loops during development, and Tailwind CSS accelerated UI development. Challenges primarily involved correctly setting up the Supabase Edge Function deployment environment (Docker and administrator privileges) and ensuring the correct database schema for the incoming email data.

Team Submissions: @tombri_bowei_e93e5827c03c (Solo)