Email task to ToDo List

[Tom Wolfe]

This is just what I needed to get started. Thanks!

Tom

On Jun 15, 2007, at 3:46 AM, Roland Küffner wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> here is a very, very basic script that gets called by a mail rule  
> and adds the subject to the frontmost OO document. You might want  
> to adjust that - as said: very basic, but it might get you started  
> - I use the mail part of this script myself but I don't send stuff  
> to OO, so this part is rudimentary.
>
> Greets
> Roland
>
>
> using terms from application "Mail"
> 	on perform mail action with messages allMails
> 		tell application "Mail"
> 			repeat with aMail in allMails
> 				set theSub to subject of aMail
> 				-- My mail rule treats only mails with the prefix [todo]
> 				-- so my tasks start at position 7 of the subject string
> 				set theSub to text 7 thru -1 of (get theSub)
> 				my addTask(theSub as text)
> 				-- test your scripts before using!!
> 				delete aMail
> 			end repeat
> 		end tell
> 	end perform mail action with messages
> end using terms from
>
> on addTask(theTask)
> 	tell application "OmniOutliner Professional"
> 		tell front document
> 			make new row at end of rows with properties {topic:theTask}
> 		end tell
> 	end tell
> end addTask
>
>
>
> Am 15.06.2007 um 04:51 schrieb Tom Wolfe:
>
>> What I'd like to be able to do do is send an email from my Windows  
>> machine at work to my Mac at home and have the Mac (Mail.app)  
>> automatically add the contents of the subject or the email -  
>> either way would work - to an inbox in my to do list.
>>
>> Searching the forum I found a similar request. The link the author  
>> of the script provides leads to a non-existent page.
>>
>> I found several discussions of a similar concept in the kGTD  
>> arena, but kGTD is overkill for my needs and I couldn't figure out  
>> how to adapt the scripts. If the author of the aforementioned  
>> script, Mike Terry, still reads this list, or if anyone has a copy  
>> they could share, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
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