What you owe. What you're waiting on.
A commitment is more useful when it stays connected to the conversation that created it. We're building TaskFieldAI to keep the person, action, due date and supporting message together.
Limited test
One sentence, read as a commitment.
I'll send the revised proposal by Friday.
- Who
- You
- To
- Priya Nair
- Action
- Send the revised proposal
- Due
- Friday 7 June (“by Friday” in an email sent Tuesday 4 June)
- Source
- The sentence above, linked to the message
- State
- Open — not marked done
You decide: mark it done when it's delivered, or dismiss it if it wasn't a promise.
Both directions
What you owe
Promises you made in your own emails — the deck, the intro, the revised numbers — with the date you gave.
What you're waiting on
What other people said they would send or do for you, so a follow-up can cite their own words and date.
Where it needs you
- Tentative plans (“we might look at…”) are not treated as promises.
- Unclear dates stay unclear until someone confirms them.
- When a later message changes a date, check both messages — the source link is there so the original wording is never lost.
- Promises made on a call only count if they reach TaskFieldAI in writing, such as a follow-up email.
Not every sentence is a promise. Tentative plans and unclear dates need confirmation.
Questions
Does it find every promise?
No. It looks for commitments in synchronized mail and can miss one or misread one. That is why each commitment links to its source sentence, and why you can dismiss one that isn't a promise.
When is a commitment marked done?
When you mark it done. A reply is not the same as delivery — it can be a question, a delay or an unrelated update — so a commitment is not closed just because someone answered.
What about “early next week” or “soon”?
The aim is to keep vague timing vague: a commitment without a clear date should not be given a precise deadline the other person never stated. Check the source sentence when the timing matters.
Does it track promises made to me?
Yes — both directions: what you owe and what others have said they will do for you.
Bring a thread with a promise in it.
We'll walk through how the current product reads it — who owes what, by when, and where it came from.
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