Linking to Email with MailTags and Actiontastic
Tim Gaden, master of all things Mail, provided a sneak peek into an upcoming feature of MailTags that allowed quick linking to Mail from other apps. This feature is now publicly available in MailTags 2.0 Public Beta 4.
If you, like me, are frustrated at times by the lack of context surrounding email and its increasing use as a delegation tool, check out MailTags. Seriously. You can add Keywords (Contexts in my case) and Projects to messages, turn them into iCal events, add Notes…lots of good stuff.
Like Quicksilver, this is another essential Mac app that Actiontastic is happy to play with. A first class integration is on the brainstorming board at the moment, but you can obtain near-Mail/Action-ecstasy right now by following these steps:
1) Install MailTags 2.0 Beta 4. Go ahead and buy it if you like it.
2) Right click a message and choose “Copy Message URL” (or use the Secret KeyboardFu grip ⌃⌥⌘U)
3) Paste into a Notes entry for any Inbox item, Project, Context, or Action in Actiontastic.
4) Highlight the text, right click, and choose “Make Link” (Thanks, Jerome for pointing this out.)
These links will follow your Inbox items when they are converted into Projects or Actions (or back into Projects via F2). The notes drawer also allows for a few other goodies via a right click if you’re into font tweaking, colors, etc.
Thanks to Tim and Jerome (via a comment today) for this tip!
Jerome wrote:
When I copy paste the message URL it into Notes, I don’t get a link created. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 4:13 am | Permalink
Jon wrote:
@Jerome:
You are doing nothing wrong. I left out step four, which has now been added to the post. Thanks again! :-)
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 7:44 am | Permalink
Uno wrote:
Good feature! Request: URL-parser in notes - automatically making a link from any text string starting with http:// www. or message:// :-)
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 9:20 am | Permalink
Wolfgang Bartelme wrote:
Would be nice to associated an email or any other document with a task by dragging it on an existing task or onto the application icon to create a new one :)
Posted on 23-Nov-06 at 12:42 am | Permalink
scott wrote:
Fresh install. won’t launch
Console msg:
2006-12-19 15:06:50.058 Actiontastic[562] already have the sqlite format. model version is (null)
2006-12-19 15:06:50.058 Actiontastic[562] upgrading to version 3…
2006-12-19 15:06:50.071 Actiontastic[562] sqlite version is 3.3.5
2006-12-19 15:06:50.089 Actiontastic[562] error opening!: 14
2006-12-19 15:06:50.089 Actiontastic[562] Could not open version 2 database.
Any insights?
Posted on 19-Dec-06 at 2:11 pm | Permalink
Jon wrote:
@Scott:
Please check the new version, 0.8.3b. It fixes the launch issue for fresh installs. Oh, and MailTags Beta 5 is working well on my PB. Thanks for the great software.
Posted on 20-Dec-06 at 9:00 am | Permalink