Lion mail To Do?

Try inserting a name for your computer in the "Computer Name" field ../....

Thanks MDF2. My Lion iMac is now able to broadcast a WiFi signal and my iPad is back in business!

Hi!

I have done the upgrade only today and the disapperaring of the ToDo Mailbox is the first thing I have noted!

The links back to mail in the"To Do items" of iCal are not working as you have written here.

Have you found a solution?

cheers

Isabella

Dennis,

Are you sure your iMac capable of handling 802.11n, or just 802.11g? Is your iMac using Intel Core 2 Duo?

Try the AirPort Extreme 802.11n* Enabler for Mac.

See http://store.apple.com/us/product/D4141ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0Mg

Or add a WiFi N300 USB plug-in product.

Back to this topic: Lion Mail To Do, I still need it. The Outlook for Mac is not working as good as that on Windows.

I just want to right-click a billing email, and add a date and time so by due date I get a reminder to open that email again!

Apple, please put the To Do / Reminder integration back to Mail on Mountain Lion!

The reminders app as well as some of the other features you get on iOS5 is being brought to mac and will be in mountain lion. http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#video-mountainlion

Nope. Mountain Lion will work the same as iOS, in that there is a Mail app, and there is a Reminders app, and never the twain shall meet. Mail To-Do's are not coming back.

I sympathize with everyone whose workflow was broken by this change, and I have also been seriously cheesed when Apple decided to reverse a previous feature/improvement (in my case, notes syncing under iOS < 4).

However, just stepping back a moment and looking at the question as objectively as possible: It makes absolutely no sense to manage tasks in a Mail application. This is a weird artifact of Microsoft's obsession with cramming everything into Outlook, which has carried over into other apps. It's clunky and counter-intuitive for anyone not already used the the idea.

Mail could work much more seamlessly with a reminder application, whether a built-in app or otherwise. But to me, separate apps and robust interlinking makes a lot more sense.

Same with managing notes in email, incidentally, but given that the IMAP standard seems to include notes, we're probably stuck with the kludge there.

Yes, even though Notes will be a separate app in Mountain Lion, it will continue to use IMAP as its backing store (just as the iOS Notes app has been doing for the past two years). Reminders in Mail, though, were weird in that they used a custom IMAP mailbox and were viewable in both iCal and Mail.app, whereas all the other reminders in Apple's apps were based on calendar protocols like CalDAV. So really, Apple just got rid of a weird poorly-supported kludge when ditching Mail Reminders.

I agree their presence in Mail was always a sort of awkward and unnecessary imitation of Outlook; however, it would still be nice to have some kind of syncable metadata tagging system within Mail (right now all we have is message flagging and the ability to mark messages with a color, and the latter can't even be synced). Rather than have them be full-fledged Notes and To-Dos which could (and should always have) exist independently, they should be attached to specific parts of specific emails, much like PDF Annotations, or the highlighting/bookmarking/textbook-note-taking features in iBooks. In fact almost every Apple app has the ability to add at least some custom metadata -- photos in iPhoto, tracks in iTunes, events in iCal/Calendar, cards in Contacts/Address Book, they all have fields for Notes or Comments, as well as some custom fields. Why not something similar for emails?

Once upon a time, Apple seemed to be careful about the functions it took over with its own apps, leaving room for independent developers. That's obviously changed to some degree, but there are still third-party solutions, including MailTags from Indev.ca, which I quite like for attaching metadata to my email. I don't think it'll do everything that everyone in this email chain wants (what will?!), but it's pretty good.

Well, this automator tool looks promising to help resolves this issue:

http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/03/how-to-add-reminders-quickly-to-ical-from-any where/

I will test it shortly.....

THIS WORKS GREAT.

Now I can add a 'TO DO' or now called a REMINDER to iCal from ANY program whenever I want....

Still wish I could see them in MAIL but oh well, it is something....

And another problem with tasks / to do's etc.

I've just moved from MS Outlook 2010 (on a PC) to a Mac. Have been trialling the Outlook 2011 on the Mac.

Have noticed that the ability to assign a task to a colleague is absent in the Mac version, but present on the PC version! This is also a key feature of using a computer - either PC or Mac - in a work environment. It can't be done on a Mac without the use of third party software or some other workaround. For people that run businesses, that's not good enough. It has to work straight out of the box.

I tested it. It seems to have 2 problems:

1. The New To Do Item can only specify an Alarm from 0:00 to 12:59. It is good to wake me up in the mid night or do anything till the mid-day. what about from 1:00 pm to 23:59?

2. I couldn't find a way to display the reminder or an indication that the email has been set with a reminder. And thus I could not locate or change the reminder if I want to.

3. I could not set a reminder or assign a task to someone else, from OS X/Mail, iOS 5.1 from iPhone or iPad.

Thus, the [Automator > Service > Library/Calendar, New To Do Item] way of adding a reminder couldn't actually replace the good old To Do function in Mail 4.x, or Microsoft Outlook 2011, in my personal feeling so far.

Note: Maintain Lion seems to lack of such To Do fuction still. It's a 30 years regression to the IT stone age before office automation. The good old days of Apple IIe.