MailActOn and KGTD

It appears that you could mark the id number of the mail message in the row, and come back to it.

That will require a place to save the id number, and a change to the sync code to check for that on completion of the item.

Can you give an example of when you are using this script? Are you using primarily for waiting fors? or what?

thanks,

bex

Okies,

Here is a hack job if I ever saw one:

This is the “new” mail2kgtd script. Put this in your “Mail Act On” and smoke it.

—-mail2kgtd—-
using terms from application “Mail”
on perform mail action with messages allMessages
try
my generateItems(allMessages)
on error theError number theNumber from theOffender
beep
— display alert “Error ” & theNumber & ” occurred” message theError as critical buttons {“OK”} default button 1 giving up after 15
end try
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

on run
tell application “Mail”
if (count of selected messages of message viewer 1) is 0 then
display alert “No messages selected” message “Please select some messages to export or click ‘Reset’ to set new defaults” buttons {“Reset”, “OK”} default button 2 giving up after 15
copy result as list to {theButton}
else
set allMessages to selected messages of message viewer 1
my generateItems(allMessages)
end if
end tell
end run

on generateItems(allMessages)
tell application “Mail”
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in allMessages
set curMessage to item i of allMessages
set curText to reply to of curMessage & “, ” & subject of curMessage
set curID to message id of curMessage
set curBody to content of curMessage
set curSubject to subject of curMessage
set curSender to sender of curMessage
set theHeaders to all headers of curMessage
set ScriptsPath to (((path to library folder from user domain) as string) & (“Scripts:Applications:OmniOutliner Pro:Kinkless:”))
set ReadPath to ScriptsPath & “kgtdpath.txt”

set KGTDPathFile to open for access file ReadPath
set ThisDocumentPath to read KGTDPathFile
close access KGTDPathFile

tell application “OmniOutliner Professional”

set ThisDocument to (first document whose path is ThisDocumentPath)

try
get ThisDocument
on error
open with results ThisDocumentPath
set ThisDocument to (first document whose path is ThisDocumentPath)
end try

tell ThisDocument
set InboxSection to (first section whose note contains “meta_inbox”)
set TheTopic to curSender & “: ” & curSubject
set TheNote to curBody & “
” & curID
make new row at beginning of rows of InboxSection with properties {topic:TheTopic, note:TheNote}
end tell
end tell

end repeat
end tell
end generateItems
—-end mail2kgtd—-

(For those of you following along, the only real change is that the last line of the note is now the Message ID)

Well more like, have a button bound to use it from Mail Act On (or your favorite button binder). This script needs to be called right before or right after a refile command:

Rule Act-On: t | Make a “todo” in KGTD
Condition: Every Message
Perform: Move Message to Folder “KGTD To Do”
Run Script mail2kgtd

Don’t forget to create the folder “KGTD To Do”. If you want a different folder name, fix the hard-codings in the script please.

Secondly, add the “Show Mail” script to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/OmniOutliner Pro/Kinkless/. This script can (and should) be added to your tool bar.

—-Show Mail—-
(*

This mess by Brian Exelbierd - bex@pobox.com
Feel free to copy :D

This file, in conjunction with the modified mail2kgtd script allows KGTD to be “mail” aware.

“Kinkless GTD” http://kinkless.com/ is Copyright 2005 Ethan Schoonover - e@ejas.net

This file is NOT part of “Kinkless GTD”, so don’t blame Ethan!

*)
tell application “OmniOutliner Professional”
set ThisDocument to front document of application “OmniOutliner Professional”
set mailID to last paragraph of note of selected row of ThisDocument as string
set found to 0

tell application “Mail”
repeat with a in accounts
try
set x to (every message of mailbox named “KGTD To Do” of account (name of a) whose message id is mailID)
repeat with f in x
activate
open f
set found to 1
end repeat
end try
end repeat
end tell

if found is 0 then
display alert “I could not find the message, sorry.”
end if

end tell
—-end Show Mail—-

Here is how it all goes together.

The show mail script copies the email data over into KGTD and saves the message-ID of the mail as the last paragraph the note. You can do whatever you want to the entry, just don’t move the Message-ID from being the last paragraph.

When you are ready to get back to the original message, just select the row and click the “Show Mail” button. If the planets are in the proper alignment, you should get your mail message front and center.

Let me know if anyone is brave enough to try this please. Simple testing on my side has been successful.

Thanks,

bex

It seems like OmniOutliner is changing message id (130483945@something) to an email address which is breaking the show mail script…

Here’s an alternate script to handle the same thing: Send selected messages to kGTD

Pretty similar idea, it just takes the selected messages (yeah, it can handle more than one) and passes them on to kGTD’s inbox, including the whole message and select headers (subject, to, from, date sent) as a note.

I prefer this behavior to the linking option, because then I’m free to delete the email but I won’t lose context for the message, since it’s all in the notes field.

As with the other provided script, it does NOT parse the subject to pass in a project or anything else. That’s a neat idea though, and could probably be handled with a mail rule to make it wholly automatic.

This script also works with the newer version of kGTD which no longer gives you the kgtdpath.txt file.

Just drop this into ~/Library/Scripts/Application/Mail/ and it can be run from the scripts menu while browsing your email. It could also be triggered by LaunchBar/Quicksilver/Butler. This doesn’t work with Mail Act On, but I imagine someone familiar with that program (Bex?) might be able to modify it appropriately.

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Mario@CERN

Hi,

I love to use this script with kGTD. Very useful to put your stuff into one Inbox only.

Recently I came about a disavantage, i.e. that the email headers are not always explicit enough to attribut the right context and project in kGTD without opening the mail again.

Would there be a way to e.g. bring up a window and enter a comment or attrimbute a context/project when sending the email from mail to kGTD?

this way with having opened the email once it is done. Otherwise, I more and more get the feeling that I sort of put the item into IN again. Not that nice.