Create a new task from a received email
Bug #894056 reported by
Francis
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GTG |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Izidor Matušov |
Bug Description
An idea for GTG.
I receive most of my requests of things to do by email. I'm using Thunderbird as an email client. I would like to be able to add a new task from a received email. I could drag and drop my email into the quick add task zone and then a window with prefiled data from my email could appear. I could edit it and then close the window.
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More possible solution would be to create a button which exports the current opened e-mail into running GTG in a form of an extension for Firefox/
Changed in gtg: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
assignee: | nobody → Izidor Matušov (izidor) |
description: | updated |
Changed in gtg: | |
milestone: | none → 0.3.2 |
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Hallo Francis,
I've got the same idea but it is hard to implement. If you do drag and drop from Thunderbird, you get only an address for e-mail, something like: imap://<your username>@<imap server>/<id of e-mail> You are able to get the text of the message but GTG would have to log into imap server and fetch the message -- you need the password for that. That is a problem (I want to do DnD and not put any password)
TaskCoach has implemented this, that you are able to fetch e-mail after you enter the password (and it is remembered until restart).
To be honest, I don't like it and I am trying to do something different. (But it takes some time)
1) Button which exports the current opened e-mail into running GTG in a form of an extension for Firefox/ Thunderbird. I am a beginner -- it takes me ages to put together that extension (I've done about 50%)
2) Backend which imports your e-mail into GTG (or a special folder) and you can process your task right from your ToDO manager. (Actually, every e-mail is a simple task :-)
Do you have any idea what could I do something better, easier? Suggestions are welcomed!
Izidor