automator for reminders from mail

Thanks ratputin! Always good to have a couple different ways to do something 🙂

Actually also trying to re-create a scpript I had to create a new Note from any highlighted text. Any thoughts?

Thanks for this great script, however is there a way to do this with keystrokes instead of using the trackpad? I would love to have a mail message selected and then just hit a keyboard shortcut and it makes it into a task or reminder int he reminders app. Any suggestions? I've tried using the keyboard shortcut menu in system preferences and it dosen't seem to work.

The drag-n-drop to Reminders works perfectly! Thanks joelwhall...now I don't have to learn Applescripts yet. I'm less than 3 weeks into my first Mac.

If you leverage the script above as a Service in Automator, you can assign a keystroke to that services.

For example, I could highlight text in the email and select this services via the menu OR I can highlight the text in the email and use the assigned keystroke.

No problem. I actuall saw this in an article somewhere.

One more thing to note, if you drag a mail message to the Notes app, it will create a link in the note back to that mail message.

Oddly enough the link shows up as a link in Notes on my iPad but clicking it obviously does nothing (but would be cool if it did jump me to the mail app in iOS).

I read about the drag-n-drop of email to Reminders in several places, but it doesn't work at all for me. Any troubleshooting suggestions? I'm using Mountain Lion and dragging a single message, not a discussion thread.

Are you dragging the mail item to the Reminders list of your choice? When you drag the mail item be sure to drag it onto the Reminders list you want. See the picture below, drag the mail item to the list (like Work or Reminders) as opposed to dragging the item to the white part of the app (hopefully that makes sense I haven't had coffee yet today). One more note/annoyance, if you drag the mail item to the reminders dock icon, it will place the reminder in the list closes to the top (for example below, it adds it to my list of Exchange Tasks). Since Mountain Lion still groups Calendar and Reminders together in Exchange Preferences I cannot delete the "Tasks" list.

in whatever List is at the top of list view.

Very strange. All of a sudden, it started working. I swear I didn't do anything different.

And dragging to the white part of the app works fine, allowing me to place the reminder where I want in the list.

Weird.

It lets you drag the message to the actual list of reminders (white part)?

When I drag a message to the app it shows a green plus sign if I hover it over the list pane on the left or the date at the top, but not on the list itself in the white area.

Do you have Exchange reminders set up on your Mac?

Ok I figured it out and it's dumb. If I click to view a specific list of reminders (like "Work" or "Reminders") I can then drag the mail item to the white part of the list. BUT, if I am viewing my reminders by date, I lose the ability to drag the mail to the white part of the list.

Hey All,

I found this thread while trying to make an email reminder script in Mavericks. Here's what I have:

(choose from list {"20 Minutes", "2 Hours", "4 Hours", "Tomorrow", "2 Days", "3 Days", "1 Week", "1 Month", "3 Months", "6 Months", "1 Year"} with prompt "When should we follow up?")

set list_answer to result as text

if list_answer = "20 Minutes" then

set list_answer to "16"

else if list_answer = "30 Minutes" then

set list_answer to "30"

else if list_answer = "2 Hours" then

set list_answer to "120"

else if list_answer = "1 Day" then

set list_answer to "1440"

else if list_answer = "1 Month" then

set list_answer to "43200"

end if

tell application "Calendar" to activate

tell application "Calendar"

set miniaturized of window 1 to true

tell application "Mail"

set theSelection to selection

set theMessage to item 1 of theSelection

set theurl to "message://%3c" & theMessage's message id & "%3e"

set thedes to theMessage's content & "Show in Mail " & "message://%3c" & theMessage's message id & "%3e"

set input to theMessage's subject

end tell

end tell

tell application "Calendar"

tell calendar "Email Reminders"

set ReminderDate to (current date) + list_answer * minutes

set new_event to make new event with properties {description:thedes, url:theurl, summary:input, location:theurl, start date:ReminderDate, end date:ReminderDate + 10 * minutes}

end tell

tell new_event

make new mail alarm with properties {trigger interval:0}

end tell

show new_event

end tell

I'm new to this so I am sure there is a more elegant method of doing this. However, the problem I am having is that the event and mail reminder seem to be creating just fine, but the email alert never is delivered, only the on screen alert activates. If I create the reminder manually, the email is delivered just fine. Anyone have any ideas ideas or tips?

Rick

Thanks Rick0713!

I have used some of your code and updated it to make it work for my workflow. The script is quite a bit longer, probably too long post here.

I have documented it at http://www.michaelkummer.com/2014/03/18/how-to-create-a-reminder-from-an-e-mail/ including screen shots on how to add it as a service for Mail.

Cheers

Mike

Thanks Rick0713 and Michael.

Based on your work I did an extension to fit my needs and workflow.

https://github.com/moritzregnier/create-reminder-from-mail-mac