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Douglas	Posted: Apr 26, 2010 Score: 0 Reference Douglas Posted: Apr 26, 2010 Score: 0 Reference FYI - I don't know if anyone had seen this blog entry ... but in looking around for tools for Toodledo, I stumbled across this: http://www.thefreespeech.org/?p=69 The author is correct in that "a lot of emails are really the source for most tasks that one manages" ... and I am no exception to this. I wanted a quick and simple way that I could spin through my inbox, hit a quick keystroke or two ... and have a task shot over to Toodledo. Well, it turns out MailActOn will help with that (http://indev.ca/MailActOn.html). Now, the author of that blog post gets pretty fancy with his approach - even being able to set folders, priorities, etc. right in mail.app before the to-do is shot over to Toodledo. To me, that's a bit of overkill ... I can tweak that stuff later when it's sitting in my unfiled inbox over in toodledo. The important thing is to have a quick way to get items there with minimal effort. MailActOn is super simple for that. I just made a rule, that is triggered by the "T" key. While viewing a message, or while having an individual message highlighted in my inbox, I can simply press F1 to invoke MailActOn, then T to shove the message over to toodledo. Or, I can shortcut that even further by just pressing ctrl-T. The email is automatically forwarded over to my toodledo private incoming email address. Now, they all show up in Toodledo as not in any folder, and as "Fwd: This is the original subject", no context, no due dates, etc. But I don't find it too difficult to repair all these within the Toodledo user interface (I use grid mode). The main thing is to get them over into toodledo as fast as possible, and off of my mind.

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Douglas

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Douglas
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FYI - I don't know if anyone had seen this blog entry ... but in looking around for tools for Toodledo, I stumbled across this:

http://www.thefreespeech.org/?p=69

The author is correct in that "a lot of emails are really the source for most tasks that one manages" ... and I am no exception to this. I wanted a quick and simple way that I could spin through my inbox, hit a quick keystroke or two ... and have a task shot over to Toodledo. Well, it turns out MailActOn will help with that (http://indev.ca/MailActOn.html).

Now, the author of that blog post gets pretty fancy with his approach - even being able to set folders, priorities, etc. right in mail.app before the to-do is shot over to Toodledo. To me, that's a bit of overkill ... I can tweak that stuff later when it's sitting in my unfiled inbox over in toodledo. The important thing is to have a quick way to get items there with minimal effort.

MailActOn is super simple for that. I just made a rule, that is triggered by the "T" key. While viewing a message, or while having an individual message highlighted in my inbox, I can simply press F1 to invoke MailActOn, then T to shove the message over to toodledo. Or, I can shortcut that even further by just pressing ctrl-T. The email is automatically forwarded over to my toodledo private incoming email address.

Now, they all show up in Toodledo as not in any folder, and as "Fwd: This is the original subject", no context, no due dates, etc. But I don't find it too difficult to repair all these within the Toodledo user interface (I use grid mode). The main thing is to get them over into toodledo as fast as possible, and off of my mind.

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