Things app: Quick Entry Autofill for Mailplane
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Yesterday, Cultured Code released Things 1.2.2. Guess what's in the release notes:
Quick Entry Autofill now works in Microsoft Word 2008 and Mailplane.
Great! Now it's super easy to create a new to-dos based on email conversations. Most importantly, Things creates a to-do that links back to the Gmail conversation.
Here's how it works:
1. In Mailplane: open a Gmail conversation.
2. Select some text inside the conversation, it'll be added as Things to-do note:
3. Select Mailplane > Services > New To-Do containing selection as note or simply press ⌃⌥⇧⌘0. As a result you'll get the Things Quick Entry dialog:
4. Make your changes and press Save to add the to-do. After the dialog closes, the to-do can be found in your Things inbox. Just click the email link and your conversation will magically open inside Mailplane.
Tip: If you are an OmniFocus user, check out the Mailplane/OmniFocus plugin for a similar integration.
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Comments
Posted by Marius (09/18 at 05:04 PM)
Posted by Todd Prouty (09/20 at 05:55 PM)
And to think I momentarily considered moving back to Mail.app because of its drag & drop compatibility with Things. A keyboard shortcut beats drag & drop any day, and I’m glad not to lose the Mailplane/Gmail interface. Thanks!
Posted by Ben Chatelain (09/23 at 04:05 PM)
So very cool. I use both these apps all the time and this integration really helps my productivity, and to keep my Inbox at zero.
Posted by vitamine (12/04 at 01:00 PM)
Excellent! But I have a query that how did you get the email subject to show up as the title of the to do? Mine says “New To Do’ no matter what menu or key combination I try.
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Wow, looks like a great workflow. Thanks for sharing!