Automatically Create Tasks from Your Email
You know the email has something you need to do. You just cannot find it anymore. It was from James. Or maybe Sarah. Something about a report. It was three days ago. You search for it, re-read five emails, and finally find the one sentence buried in paragraph four that says: can you send the numbers by Friday?
Your inbox is not a todo list. But you use it like one because every other system requires you to manually copy action items out of emails and into a task manager. That friction is why the email just sits there, unacted on, slowly rotting into anxiety.
What most people try
- Flag or star important emails (the stars pile up and become meaningless)
- Move emails to folders like 'Action Needed' (you stop checking the folder)
- Copy-paste action items into a task app (too much friction, stops after a week)
- Use the inbox itself as the task list (you re-read the same emails 5 times a day)
- Snooze emails to resurface later (delays the problem, does not solve it)
Why that does not work
The core problem is extraction. An email is a conversation, not a task. The action item is hiding inside paragraphs of context, pleasantries, and signatures. Turning an email into a task requires reading, understanding, deciding, and transcribing. That is four steps of cognitive work per email, dozens of times a day. No wonder you give up and just leave it in the inbox.
How Mursa solves this
Connect your Gmail
One-time OAuth connection in Settings. Mursa registers a watch on your inbox using Gmail push notifications.
AI pre-filters noise
Before AI even looks at the email, a pre-filter catches newsletters, receipts, CI/CD alerts, and marketing. Over 80% of emails are filtered out automatically.
AI extracts the action item
For real emails, AI reads the content and extracts: task title, category (client reply, action required, review, follow-up, scheduling, payment), priority, and due date.
Task appears in your inbox
A new task shows up in Mursa with the action item, a link back to the original email, and a 'From Email' badge. You review, adjust priority if needed, and schedule it.