From the day we released Sprint.ly into private beta we’ve had email integration. Like most features at Sprint.ly, email had a simple and humble beginning. You could create tasks via email, defects via email, and reply to comments via email.
Given that many of our customers live inside of email, some of us even taking the title of Senior Email Router, it made sense for Sprint.ly to expand upon these humble beginnings. Today we’re happy to announce a slew of updates to this great feature.
- We now send confirmation receipts when new items are created via our email gateway.
- You can now send tests to your backlog with the email address
tests-{product_id}@items.sprint.ly. Just replace{product_id}with your product’s unique identifier. - You can now send stories to your backlog with the email address
stories-{product_id}@items.sprint.ly. Stories must be in the format of “As a … I want … so …”, but will be happily parsed from subject of your email. The body of your email, as usual, is used as a description. An example would be “As an accountant I want Quickbooks integration so I don’t have to import CSVs every morning.” - You can now tag items you send to the backlog with Twitter style hash tags. Just append a list of them to the end of the subject when you send the email in. An example would be “Found a rendering bug in IE8 #ie #browser #fail” which would tag that item with “ie”, “browser”, and “fail” respectively.
- You can now send an email with a list of multiple items in the body, including hash tags, to
backlog-{product_id}@items.sprint.lyand we will create all of the items en masse.
To dive deeper into our new email enhancement check out our documentation.
We like to think that email is some dead form of communication, but the reality is that it’s the backbone of most businesses in the world. As long as we’re stuck with it, we might as well make it work for us in better ways.
We hope you enjoy it and, as always, we welcome your feedback!
