Tasks: keeping track of mail you owe a reply

Most mail that goes wrong is mail you meant to answer and forgot. BlueMail’s answer is to let you set a message aside deliberately, then bring it back.

Set an email aside

Open the message, tap the 3-dot menu, and choose Reply Today or Reply Later depending on when you intend to deal with it.

Both are also available as swipe actions — see Settings → Customize menus to put them under your thumb.

Find them again

Tap the PIM tab in the bottom bar, next to Mail, and open the Tasks card. On desktop it is the Later Board in the left sidebar.

Tasks are organised into three columns:

• Today — what you said you would handle today
• Later — everything deferred further out
• Done — handled

Mark something Done

From the message’s bottom actions, or by swiping it in the list.

Done messages leave the Today and Later columns and stop appearing in the Incoming filter, so what remains in Tasks is genuinely what you still owe.

Why not just leave it unread

Unread is a poor to-do list: it mixes what you have not read with what you have read and must act on. Reply Later separates the two, which is the whole point of the feature.