moritzregnier / 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.

create-reminder-from-mail-mac's Issues

Archiving of mails?

Any chance of archiving mails after the reminder has been created for an inbox-zero approach?

URL works only once

The Reminder URL/link to the email greys out after you click on it. Then the link is broken. I tried to find an URL property but cannot find one. Perhaps this is the reason the script uses the body property for the URL/link?

I can see that if you drag the message to Reminders, it does create the link using the URL field. I wonder how Apple accomplishes it. The reminder URL then never greys out no matter how many times you click on it.

Extended delay when run as a service

I greatly appreciate the work put into this service by you and by Michael Kummer. Can you shed any light as to why this action exhibits a delay when run as a service that does not exist when run within Automator, or in Script Editor for that matter. I get a 10 to 20 second delay before the dialogue pops up asking for input for reminder delay.

Are you seeing this behavior?

I would appreciate any troubleshooting ideas.

Regards,
Bob G.

mutliple account in mail app

In my mail app, I am using 3 gmail accounts, 1 yahoo mail account, 1 apple mail account.
Can I use the code for all 5 accounts?
Or do I have to make 5 differnt code per each account?

Using latest message in grouped emails

Some email of repeatedly communicat were displayed as group.
When I creat reminder from that group of emails, I want to make latest one to reminder.
But currently not latest message is going to reminder.

Sample of image below, I did email to reminder from top, but 4th message was going to remind.

Message Url

Somehow the message Url isn't working, in reminders app it always corrects the message-link to a "mailto:" command. On macOS Ventura beta.