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Send a follow-up after a call

After a call with people from outside your team, Starlings drafts the follow-up for you to send them, next to the tasks the call produced. You check both, and your own mail app sends the message. Starlings never sends mail.

When you get one

You get a follow-up when all of this is true:

  • You hosted the call.
  • The call is filed on a lead, a project or a partner. A call you file later gets its follow-up when you file it.
  • Someone from outside your team was in the call and joined with an email address.

A call with only your team gets its tasks, and no follow-up.

The draft is written in the language of the call. It says what was agreed, who does what by when, and the next step. It never quotes the transcript.

Approve it

  1. Open the follow-up in Inbox, on Work's Overview or on Home. It shows who it goes to, the subject, the message, and the tasks from the call.
  2. Untick a task you do not want. Ticked tasks are accepted, the others are declined.
  3. On the web you can change the subject and the message here. On the Mac and the iPhone you change them in your mail app.
  4. Choose Approve. Your mail app opens a new message to the people from outside, with the subject and the message filled in. Read it and send it.

If the message is too long for a mail link, Starlings puts it on your clipboard and opens the mail with the subject only. Paste the message in.

Dismiss it

Choose Dismiss in the follow-up or in its row's menu. The follow-up leaves Inbox. The tasks stay in Inbox for you to accept or decline.

A follow-up you do not answer leaves Inbox after a week.

Who sees it

Only you, the host. The draft is kept with the call's transcript. Your teammates see the call's notes and tasks as before.

Controls

ControlWhere
ApproveThe follow-up, on the web, the Mac and the iPhone
DismissThe follow-up, and its row's menu

Where it works

CapabilitymacOS HostmacOS JoinWebiOS / iPadOSAgent access
Approve the follow-up after a callWorksNot availableWorksWorksHuman only: Only the host approves; Starlings never sends the mail.

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