anemcov / create-reminder-from-mail-mac

Create a reminder from a selected email message: supports for 6 accounts and avoids duplicates

Create reminder from mail for Mac OS X

Create a reminder from a selected email message. The script supports

• up to 6 email accounts (in Mail.app) and
• up to 6 reminder lists (in Reminder.app).
• It avoids duplicate reminder entries.
• It has a switch to set 'auto-archiving' on/off

Additional features

Compared to his original I did the following modifications:

• support for six email accounts (e.g. 2x work, 4x personal accounts or whatever) instead of 2
• an optional modification dialog for a custom title instead of only the messages subject
• identification of an existing reminder based on the unique message id instead of the subject
• allowing to reschedule / set a new date for mails with existing reminder
• extended the list of possible reminder dates
• configure the default reminder time
• switch on/off auto-archiving
• simplying the configuration of the script

Screenshots

Installation

For installation follow Michaels page while using the script here. Basically you

• create in Automator a service with no input and only for Mail.app
• add a step that executes AppleScript (and replace the given code by this one)
• save it in ~/Library/Service with some useful name like "Create Reminder from Email"
• and give it a Keyboard shortcut under System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services

Find a step by step description on mackungfu.org.