Work today is a storm of pings, mentions, and pop-ups. Everything arrives with the same urgency - whether it's a real blocker or someone's emoji reaction.
Each interruption doesn't just steal a moment. It breaks your train of thought and forces your brain to rebuild context.
When you're constantly interrupted:
Tack isn't about blocking the world out. It's about letting it in on your terms.
Tack isn't another inbox. It's a quiet layer between you and the noise.
Handle most things in one click: mark done, archive, mark read, mute, or jump to the source message when you need the full thread.
[PLACEHOLDER: Triage board screenshot]
Same as homepage hero, but with 1–2 examples per bucket and a visible "open in outlook/teams/slack" link.
In mid 2025 I was properly swamped. Big deadline, too much to do, and no way to lock in because Teams was pinging every couple of minutes.
I had to keep notifications on—clients needed to reach me—but most alerts weren't from the client.
That weekend I went looking for a tool that could kill the noise and still tap you on the shoulder when something genuinely mattered. I found an abandoned project, but nothing usable.
So I built it.
A week or so later, with help from various copilots, I had the basics working.
Then I hit the hard part: email is identity. If I wouldn't trust it with my own inbox, I shouldn't ask anyone else to.
So I slowed down and went deep on security and data minimisation—applying everything I'd learned from designing big data and analytics platforms for some of the largest New Zealand organisations.
Now it's at the point where I do trust it with my own data—and I can actually focus again.
Tack works alongside Outlook, Teams, and Slack. Not as another inbox, but a single view across them all. It's a small always-on panel that lets you run Do Not Disturb properly, without the cost of missing something urgent.