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Tasks — My Day, the board, and who does what

5 min read · Updated 2026-09-05

“Tasks — My Day, the board, and who does what” is a Direct University lesson from Direct REI, the AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors. Track the follow-up work a CRM stage can not express: due dates, assignment, recurring tasks, comments, and the optional AI task manager.

A contact stage tells you where a lead is. A task tells you what someone has to do next, by when. The Tasks page is where that lives — and it is where automations put the work they create for you.

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The left-nav Tasks badge counts what's due today, so you don't have to go looking.

Creating a task

Click + New task. What matters:

Every task has an Activity & comments panel — use it for handoffs so the context lives with the work instead of in a chat thread nobody can find later. Tasks with comments show a 💬 chip in the lists.

Working tasks

Follow-up reminders and your calendar

Every task with a due date is also a reminder. When it comes due, the assignee gets a push notification (tap it to open the task) and an email from the account's connected mailbox. A task with a time reminds at that time; a date-only task reminds at 9 AM that day. Snoozing or moving the due date re-arms the reminder; completing the task cancels it.

How tasks get assigned

When something else creates a task for you — an automation or the AI task manager — it picks an assignee by strategy:

The AI task manager (optional, Pro & Scale)

On the Automations tab there's a 🤖 AI task manager card. Turned on, it reads your account on a schedule and drafts a short, prioritized task list — leads flagged for attention, replies with no open task, contacts that went quiet after being contacted — and, since September 2026, what leads actually said: the last week of inbound texts and emails, AI-call summaries and outcomes, voicemail transcripts, and callback requests.

It drafts, it never sends. Everything it produces is a task for a human.

What's next

To stop creating these by hand: Automations. To measure whether they're getting done: Reading your Analytics dashboard.

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