Wanted: Send Selected Contexts to Email

[steve]

I would love to be able to send selected actions to email.

Here are some uses:

+ You want to share a context with a person. For example, I have a people context for each person that reports to me. This would be a handy way to share all of my "Mary" agenda items with Mary.

+ Send your mobile actions to an email. . . this would enable you to send your mobile contexts to an email which you could pick up with your iphone.

One day, I need to learn to applescript!

[RobTrew]

Does copy & paste not meet the need ?

[gcrump]

Does copy & paste not meet the need ?

Not really as it just put the Task text in. Would like to see due data and related project.

Thanks,

George

[steve]

Copy and Paste doesn't meet the need for these two reasons:

1) It would be helpful if there was some sort of structure such as:

Home Depot
Buy this [bathroom project]
Buy that [deck project]
Target
Buy this [bathroom project]
Buy that [deck project]

when you copy and paste everything is flattened. In an ideal world, the due dates would be copied.

2) I want to automate this-- for example at 3:00 ical triggers a script to email a certain perspective. I can then pick it up on my iphone.

[RobTrew]

The core of the code could be adapted from this earlier post (http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=4604).

[RobTrew]

A first draft, which builds an email from the contexts (or projects, in project view) which are selected in the left-hand sidebar.

[steve]

Rob,

Thank you SO much. The script is wonderful. This is really going to help me. I'm fortunate to have an iphone— I can now send my "portable" NA's in an email and pick this up remotely. I really appreciate your contribution.

[xmas]

A first draft, which builds an email from the contexts (or projects, in project view) which are selected in the left-hand sidebar.

Without having looked at this code, it seems like its a perfect candidate for using a perspective to do this automatically for you, rather than just the ones that are selected.

[RobTrew]

Without having looked at this code, it seems like its a perfect candidate for using a perspective to do this automatically for you, rather than just the ones that are selected.

I think the existing script will work OK regardless of whether the sub-set of contexts is selected by direct CMD-clicking, or by choice of perspective.

A script which offers a list of perspectives, and then sends a text version of the selected perspective straight to Mail without further ado would certainly be an elegant approach, though possibly less flexible than the existing script - It would work smoothly with existing perspectives, but would also preclude assembling ad hoc sets of contexts on the fly.

You may, however, be suggesting one or more single-shot scripts of the form "Send perspective X to Mail", and I can see why that approach might well be useful.

[Lutin]

I would love to be able to send selected actions to email.

Have a look at my script, presented on this thread (http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=5369).
I plan to update it soon to allow the sending of more than one task at a time.