What's new in Talanoa

📅 Today section - Major upgrade!

The Today section just got a massive upgrade! I’ve been working hard on making it way more powerful and flexible.

New filtering capabilities:

• Switch between All, People, and Notifications with one click - see exactly what you need
• Unread only mode - focus on what needs your attention right now
• Archived only view - quickly find emails you’ve already processed

This is a game changer for managing your daily email flow. No more scrolling through everything to find what matters.

Performance boost:

• The screen now loads significantly faster - I’ve optimized the data fetching and rendering. You’ll notice the difference immediately, especially if you have a lot of emails.

The Today section is becoming the command center for your inbox. Try it out and let me know what you think!

🔄 Gmail sync

• Improved Gmail synchronization for better reliability and faster email updates

📋 New sections

• Brand new design for the “see more” section for all teammates/people/notification

This section is not reactive yet for realtime changes (but will be soon)

• New UI for the “Today section” with all your email available directly. Infinite scroll, unread filter and search.

🎨 UI improvements

• Some UI improvements on Sender and Today view

📎 Attachments

• Attachment preview (for image) & download (for other files) when we are writing an email

⌨️ Shortcuts

• New shortcuts
  G then T => go to Todo
  G then H => go to Today view

✅ Todo

• Fix issue on three dot menu
• Change the empty state to be able to create a task from it

📋 Menu sidebar with senders

• I changed the hover action menu to be on hover of the picture to avoid misclick

👤 Accounts

• Added the possibility to delete the custom picture (to switch to gravatar or initial as fallback)

📁 Custom Section

• Add help to explain that you should move people from a section to be able to remove a custom section

📅 Today View

• I added navigation with arrows top and down (game changer!!)

• and use directly shortcuts like E to archive, Del to trash and Shift U to mark as unread if needed

— Thanks a lot to Vlad, Simon & Yannick for their feedback

🔧 Bug fixes & improvements

• This release includes some minor bug fixes and removes some useless logs (used for local debug) that may contain your credentials (Thanks to Richard for his feedback)

📝 Compose view

• Add the possibility to drag the compose view in the app (to be able to see message behind if needed)

⌨️ Shortcuts

• Add the Escape shortcut to close the compose and the two action: “save & close draft” or “delete draft” (Thanks Simon for his feedback)

• Add shortcuts CMD + Enter to send the email

👤 People/Sender view

• UI Improvement on people/sender header section

• On People/Sender header, added a icon if there are pending todo with this person

🔄 Synchronisation

• Email are pulled automatically every 30 seconds now (before it was 1 minute)
• When you focus the app Talanoa, it automatically pull new message directly for the current inbox

Thanks Moez for his feedback

⌨️ Shortcuts

• You have new shortcuts
  E to mark as done / archive a message
  Backspace to trash a message
  Shift U to mark unread a message
  C to compose a new message (and if we are in a sender view, we automatically add it as recipient)

Thanks Seth and Simon for their feedback

👤 Sender view

• Refactoring of the UI to be able to:
  filter unread or archived message / search message for the current sender. It’s still not perfect, feedback are welcome if you have idea on how I can make it awesome!

Thanks Richard for his feedback

🎯 Custom sections

Create your own custom sections to group senders exactly how you want. Organize your inbox by project, priority, team, or any system that makes sense for your workflow. You have complete control over how your emails are organized—no more being locked into predefined categories.

Drag and drop senders into your custom sections, rename them, and reorganize them as your needs evolve. Your inbox, your rules.

🔧 Fix adding due date to todo tasks

Fixed a bug that prevented adding due dates to todo tasks created from emails. You can now properly set deadlines and reminders for all your tasks.

➕ Custom tasks in kanban board

You can now create custom tasks directly in the kanban board that aren’t tied to any email. Perfect for tracking standalone projects, personal reminders, or any task that doesn’t originate from your inbox. Your kanban board is now a complete task management system.

✅ Add to todo

Every email now has an “Add to todo” button, making it easy to convert important messages into actionable tasks. Use the T keyboard shortcut to quickly add the current email to your todo list without lifting your hands from the keyboard.

⏰ Send later

Schedule emails to be sent at the perfect time. Whether you want to respect timezone differences, send a reminder at just the right moment, or draft emails outside work hours to be sent later, the new send later feature gives you complete control over when your messages go out.

Note: For your privacy and security, scheduled emails are sent directly from your device when the scheduled time arrives. This means Talanoa needs to be running for scheduled emails to be sent—we never have access to your email credentials or tokens, keeping your data completely private.

📝 Email notes

Add internal notes and comments to any email. Perfect for keeping context, tracking follow-ups, or leaving reminders for yourself—all without cluttering the actual email thread. Your notes stay private and are only visible to you.