I am looking for a way to turn an email into an action in OmniFocus. When I process my mail inbox, there are a lot of messages I either have to reply to, or do something else about, and I would like to track these in OF.
I use Gmail, and the way I do this now is to apply a label (either "@reply" or "@pending") to each of these emails. The problem with this of course, is that it creates two separate places to track actions from, labels in Gmail and OF actions. It would be a lot easier if it were all in one place.
On page 32 in the OF 1.5 manual, there is a section on processing mail messages into actions. But this seems to chiefly adress situations where you don't have access to OF (e.g. when you're at another computer), and to be written only for Mail.app users.
I have also searched around the forums for Gmail related stuff. The most relevant I found was
this thread that refers to a standalone app for Gmail called Mailplane. The app looks nice enough, but I'm not sure whether it does exactly what I need, or whether I need it at all.
So I want to throw this question out there:
Does anyone know of a simple way to get a mail message in Gmail into OF as an action?
(And by "simple" I mean with as few keystrokes as possible, and preferrably with no use of the mouse.)