So we have established the idea that email clients are not cut out for managing day to day work.

Working with several people and managing action items can not be done through email. We need a new breed of email clients that are action item oriented. this type of email system will arrange information that is otherwise scattered across email messages and collate them into one single entity – the action item.

Imagine sending a request to three different people to hand out their report. With regular email you are bound to end up with minimum 3 emails and 3 attachments… and when you take into account, questions, clarification, scheduling and status updates you get a pile of email.

A task oriented email client will behave like a wiki document in the sense that once you send it out, any response, question or comment made by recipients or yourself, will all happen on the same email entry… all the relevant information under a single line item – THIS IS COLLABORATIVE EMAIL.

In ActionBase we call this email – ActionMail.

ActionMail is the next generation of work email which is task oriented rather than message oriented.