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Mail to KGTD: Full on Mail/KGTD integration!
I am immensely pleased to announce a new KGTD tool, Mail to KGTD
Have you ever been in your car, and you just want to remind yourself to pick up a certain CD on Amazon because you’re digging on the current tune on the radio?
Do you have web forms that send you tech support requests and you’d like to get those requests in your Kinkless GTD file?
Do you sometimes just want to remind yourself to follow up on an email, but you’d rather have everything in one place, and so you end up filing an email and then creating a task to follow up on it in KGTD, and pretty soon you can’t remember where anything is?
Are you a fanatical user of Mail Act-On and want to fully integrate your Kinkless GTD workflow with it?
If yes, then Mail to KGTD is perfect for you!
Mail to GTD replaces and improves upon my previous “Send Selected Messages to KGTD” script. It allows you to send full messages, including a link to the message itself (powered by Spotlight) to your Kinkless GTD inbox.
You can run this script on a one-off basis, or drive it via rules which can automatically file your messages into the right context and project in your KGTD file! It also fully supports the excellent program Mail Act-On for all you keyboard junkies out there!
Just like Send to KGTD Advanced, you can send messages using KGTD syntax to set projects and contexts, and it’s fully collect-then-process compliant, respectfully putting all your targeted messages in your inbox, for easy triage and sorting.
It also features Growl integration for messaging, and works wonderfully with Quicksilver, LaunchBar and all your other favorite tools.
And did I mention that it’s free, open-source software that’s fortified with 100% pure Applescript goodness?
I got everything working,
I got everything working, but there seems to be about two to three minutes after running the Mail Act On rule to run your script before it shows up in KGTD, or I am notified by GROWL. Any ideas?
I believe you left this
I believe you left this comment on my site as well.
The answer is that this is, more or less, Spotlight’s fault. In order to create a link to the original email message, the script performs a spotlight search for the email message in Spotlight’s index. On some computers, especially those with slower drives and CPUs or large spotlight indexes, this can take quite a while.
I’ll be upgrading the script soon, and when I do, I’ll add a defaults key to toggle whether or not it should create a link.
Good idea on the toggle
Good idea on the toggle spotlight indexing off. I have to use an IMAP account so the links don’t survive long. Just having the content in there works for me.
Some sharp users have
Some sharp users have identified a bug with the script. I’m working on fixing it, but for now, it will only work if you activate it via some method other than an incoming mail rule. (Mail Act-On rules still work.)
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